Location Information (for the Confederate Monument) Name: Confederate Monument Address: 400 Block 5th Avenue, North 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 NR District Name: Laurel Central (Additional Documentation/Boundary Increase/D (2021)     NR Status: Contributing     Element No.: 107B Local Designation Information Local District Name: Laurel Central Historic District click here for additional information on this district. 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).

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Brief Description This stone monument depicts a stone statue of a soldier standing “at rest” atop a tempietto of eight paired Tuscan columns on pedestals. Within the tempietto is a statue of a woman kneeling in grief, all on a stepped base.