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Campbell County World War Monument

 
 
Campbell County World War Monument Marker, west side image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, September 17, 2025
1. Campbell County World War Monument Marker, west side
Inscription.
(West side)
Erected 1919
By the people of
Campbell County
In memory of their soldier boys, who served in the World War.
Local Board
G.E. Jenkins, Chrmn. J.H. McClure, Secty. W. R. Camp, Physn. Mrs. W. H. Young, Chf. Clk.
Unveiled May 21, 1919


(South side)
Killed in Battle
William Allen Hogan Chateau Thierry
Gaston L. Luck • Thomas P. Thomas Argonne
Died in Camp
Raymond F. Camp Camp Jackson, S.C.
John Comer Harris Camp Gordon, Ga.
Died In Service
Charles Berry Cook • H. Glenn Swanson Siberia

(East side)
Wounded in Battle
Joseph L. Morris Chateau Thierry
Herman C. White Soisson
Lester C. Barronton Chateau Thierry
Robert Jesse Brock St. Mihiel
Jesse Gordon Dungan St. Mihiel
Oliver F. Bishop Champagne
Willard Woodfin Wilson Verdun
David D. Smith Argonne
Alton Wilson • Abner Thomas Eskew
(East side base)
John Frank Granger Soisson
James E. Cook Argonne
Conyers Cline

(North side)
Colored Wounded In Battle
Walter Willie Broom Argonne
John W. Toles Jr.
Died In Camp
Eugene Brown Schenectady, N.Y
Thomas Wynne North Carolina
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Erected 1919.
 
Topics. This monument and memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World I.
 
Location. 33° 33.573′ N, 84° 35.345′ W. Monument is in Fairburn, Georgia, in Fulton County. It is on Roosevelt Highway (U.S. 29) 0.2 miles south of Brooks Drive, on the right when traveling south. The monument is located at Holly Hill Memorial Park. Touch for map. Monument is at or near this postal address: 770 Roosevelt Highway, Fairburn GA 30213, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial monument is in Georgia’s Piedmont and in Metro Atlanta. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. 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 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
Campbell County World War Monument Marker, south side image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, September 17, 2025
2. Campbell County World War Monument Marker, south side
as the crow flies: The History of This Bell (approx. half a mile away); Celebrating Fairburn's History (approx. 0.6 miles away); Here the First Confedereate Flag Was Unfurled in Georgia (approx. 0.7 miles away); Old Campbell County Courthouse (approx. Ύ mile away); Old Campbell County (approx. Ύ mile away); Union City Centennial Time Capsule (approx. 2½ miles away); Shadnor Baptist Church (approx. 2.8 miles away); Unknown Soldiers Memorial (approx. 2.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Fairburn.
 
Regarding Campbell County World War Monument. Unveiled in 1919, the monument stood in downtown Fairburn on West Broad Street. The monument was moved to Holly Hill Memorial Park in 1967.

Campbell County no longer exists, as it along with the former Milton County was merged into Fulton County in 1931.
 
Campbell County World War Monument Marker, east side image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, September 17, 2025
3. Campbell County World War Monument Marker, east side
Campbell County World War Monument, East side base image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, September 17, 2025
4. Campbell County World War Monument, East side base
Campbell County World War Monument, North side image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, September 17, 2025
5. Campbell County World War Monument, North side
Full view of Campbell County World War Monument next to Roosevelt Hwy image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Mark Parker, September 17, 2025
6. Full view of Campbell County World War Monument next to Roosevelt Hwy
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on October 3, 2025. It was originally submitted on October 2, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 78 times since then and 31 times this year. Last updated on October 3, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on October 2, 2025, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
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