Pound in Wise County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Pound War Memorial

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, June 18, 2023

1. Pound War Memorial Marker, Side One

Inscription.
In Honor of Fallen Comrades

World War 1
Edward Stidham • Houston Meade • James S. Hamilton

WWII Everette Balthis • Ira Short • Maynard Stallard • Bart Belcher Jr. • Clifford Bentley • Harold Bentley • Ralph Hubbard • Milton Ellison • Raymond Hopkins • Carl Baker • Edward Roy Shortt • Stratton Perry • Arthur M. Strange • Jack Stidham • Lawrence L. Amburgy • Howard Bolling • Isaac A. Powers • Harold C. Short • John Berlin Singleton • Eugene Johnson • Elbert Mullins • Forrest Dalton Waltz • Harold Boggs • Walter E. Stallard • Ezra Lee Hubbard • Everette Mullins • Harding E. Bolling • Clyde Branham • Delmer Dotson • Daniel W. Maggard Jr. • William Roy Sexton • Joseph K. Sturgill • Leroy Salyers • Ewing Baker • Edward M. Carico

Korea War
Lee Hensley • J.C. Mullins • Elmo Boggs • Walter E. Stallard

Vietnam War
Daniel Lee Mullins • David R. Branson • Jefferson Scott Dotson • Rueben Shortt • Vernie Homer Powers

Erected by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9600 • Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9600 Ladies Auxillary.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World I • War, World II.

Location.

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37° 7.42′ N, 82° 36.078′ W. Memorial is in Pound, Virginia, in Wise County. It is at the intersection of Clintwood Highway (Virginia Route 83) and Main Street (Business U.S. 23), on the left when traveling south on Clintwood Highway. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 8448 Clintwood Hwy, Pound VA 24279, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Southwest Virginia.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Southern Appalachia. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the original Cherokee Nation,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: These Men Gave the Supreme Sacrifice for Our Freedom (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Dotson-Mullins Field (about 500 feet away); Pound High School (about 600 feet away); Pound, Virginia (approx. 0.4 miles away); Daniel Webster Dotson (approx. 1.3 miles away); Francis Gary Powers — U2 Pilot (approx. 1.6 miles away); The Crooked Road (approx. 2½ miles away); a different marker also named Daniel Webster Dotson (approx. 2½ miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Pound.

Pound War Memorial Marker, Side Two image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, June 18, 2023

2. Pound War Memorial Marker, Side Two

Text is identical on each side.

Pound War Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, June 18, 2023

3. Pound War Memorial

Credits. This page was last revised on July 18, 2023. It was originally submitted on July 18, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 237 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on July 18, 2023, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.