Vol. VI, No. 3, Winter 1993

COURT YARD OF HEROES

Mountain Meadows

Massacre Monument

Monument for World War II, Korea, and Vietnam

Bench, monument to the World War (World War 1)

Civil War Monument, placed in 1986

Spanish American War monument

The courthouse yard is the county's civic center of heroism, pride, and remembrance. The yard pictured here is in the square at Harrison, Boone County, Arkansas. It possesses monuments commemorating six wars, from the Civil War to Vietnam. It also contains an extraordinary monument to the county's emigrant sons and daughters of 1857 who, enroute to California, were slain in a bizarre and infamous massacre in southwest Utah Territory. The granite massacre monument, some six feet tall, contains a detailed map and is covered with writing, front and back.

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