Property

Location Information
(for the World War I Memorial Monument)

Name:

World War I Memorial Monument

Address:

Monroe Street
in Memorial Rose Garden

City/County:

Vicksburg, Warren County

Architectural Information

Construction Date:

1919

Registration Information

NR District Name:

Uptown Vicksburg (1993)

NR Status:

Contributing

Element No.:

49d

NR District Name:

Uptown Vicksburg Amendment and Boundary Increase No. 2 (2020)

NR Status:

Previously Listed

Element No.:

53d

Local Designation Information

Local District Name:

Historic Vicksburg District

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Context/Comments

This monument was included as a contributing element (element #49d) in the original Uptown Vicksburg Historic District, which was placed on the National Register on 19 August 1993, and it was more recently included as a previously-listed element (element #53d) in the Uptown Vicksburg Amendment and Boundary Increase No. 2, which was added to the National Register on 4 February 2020.

It was recorded as part of the “Save Outdoor Sculpture!” project in 1994. (See SOS-WAR-001.)

Brief Description

The World War I Memorial is a granite monument erected to honor the memory of those Vicksburg and Warren County soldiers killed in World War I. The granite pier is flanked on the west by a nearly life-size granite statue of an infantryman and and on the east by statue of a sailor.