Homer in Banks County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)

Banks County Veterans Memorial

Photographed by Mark Parker, May 30, 2024

1. Banks County Veterans Memorial

Inscription. This eternal flame is a memorial to those American soldiers from Banks County, Georgia who gave their lives in heroic sacrifice for their country while serving on foreign soil in the wars of this century.

Henry T. Gillespie WWI • James M. Martin WWI • James C. Mize WWI • William O. Nunnally WWI • Giles Parsons WWI • Jess Poole WWI • John T. Smelley WWI • Hubert A. Ausborn WW2 • Marvin H. Brown WW2 • Clyde Carpenter WW2 • Burch E. Caudell WW2 • Almond Chandler WW2 • Lewis H. Cheek WW2 • Powell D. Cochran WW2 • Broughton B. Crumley WW2 • William R. Dalton WW2 • John D. Dodd WW2 • Seaborn Duckett WW2 • Thomas S. Garrison WW2 • Roger E. Hill WW2 • Boyd H. Lewallen WW2 • John C. Lewallen WW2 • Hoyt L. Ray WW2 • Otho Sheridan WW2 • Robert V. Smelley WW2 • Willie W. Thompson WW2 • Luther Whitfield WW2 • Clyde Coker Korean

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

Location. 34° 20.048′ N, 83° 29.954′ W. Memorial is in Homer, Georgia, in Banks County. It is at the intersection of Yonah-Homer

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Road and Historic Homer Highway (Georgia Route 51), on the left when traveling north on Yonah-Homer Road. Located in the Banks County Veterans Memorial Park. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 51 Yonah-Homer Rd, Homer GA 30547, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Georgia’s Mountains. It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Deep South.

Globally, it is in 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 9 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Banks County (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Mt. Pleasant Church (approx. 3.8 miles away); Indian Boundary (approx. 5.1 miles away); Line Baptist Church (approx. 5.2 miles away); Nails Creek Baptist Church (approx. 6 miles away); Hebron Presbyterian Church

Banks County Memorial with Eternal Flame image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, May 30, 2024

2. Banks County Memorial with Eternal Flame

(approx. 7½ miles away); Privy (approx. 8.7 miles away); The Hurricane Shoals Covered Bridge (approx. 8.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Homer.

Banks County Veterans Memorial from southeast walkway image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mark Parker, May 30, 2024

3. Banks County Veterans Memorial from southeast walkway

Credits. This page was last revised on July 28, 2024. It was originally submitted on July 27, 2024, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 328 times since then and 26 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on July 27, 2024, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.