Property

Location Information
(for the Confederate Monument)

Name:

Confederate Monument

Address:

on Courthouse grounds

City/County:

Laurel, Jones County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1912

Registration Information

NR District Name:

Laurel Central (1987)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

370

Local Designation Information

Local District Name:

Laurel Central Historic District

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Context/Comments

Located within the Laurel Central Historic District (NR 1987), but not included in the district inventory. A stone statue of a soldier standing "at rest" atop a tempietto of eight paired Tuscan columns on pedestals, enclosing within the tempietto a statue of a woman kneeling in grief, all on a stepped base.

It is mentioned in "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p. 307, in the listing for the Jones County Courthouse, PW11).