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Location: PERRY STREET AND CHERRY STREET

City: HELENA

State: Arkansas

Zip Code: 72342

Type of Memorial: Statues War or Military Related

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: WORLD WAR I

Photograph By: THOMAS R MACHNITZKI


ERECTED IN HONOR OF THE MEN & WOMEN OF PHILLIPS COUNTY WHO SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR 1917-1918
THIS STATUE IS KNOW AS “THE SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN DOUGHBOY”, DESIGNED TO HONOR THE VETERANS AND CASUALTIES OF WORLD WAR I. MASS PRODUCED DURING THE 1920’S AND 1930’S FOR COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. ITS TITLE IS OFTEN SHORTENED TO “THE DOUGHBOY.”


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