Monument Name:

Wayne County Memorial Community Building

Type: Public Space War Memorial

Subject local: WWI

Rep image:

Description:

The Wayne County Memorial Community Building was a large brick building. It had white

pillars and a lot of windows. The building included a public room with bathrooms, a reading

room, a gymnasium, a swimming pool and shower rooms for both men and women, a game

room, a bowling alley, a lunch room, and a kitchen.

Inscription:

Front, Outside of the building: Wayne County Memorial Community Building

Memorial hall 1st Bronze plaque: In Honor of the Sons of Wayne / Who Served and Died In the

World War / Jesse J. Baker/ Harry B. Hood / Roscoe Benton / Sam G. Hummell / Andrew Best /

Cleon Ray Jones / James H. Blalock / Ezra A. Mayo / Willie L. Blalock / Ezra Moore / Bruce L.

Blevins / Wm. O. Mozingo / Levi C. Branson / Chas. Raynor / Irving Bryant / Fred Reed / Fred

Lawson Casey / Mortimer Roscower / Carl B. Clingon / Jesse R. Ruffin / Eulas Lee Collins /

Herman P. Shackleford / Roland Cox / Chas. Dixon Shaver / John Creech / Leslie Jurney Short /

Marion Lee Daniels / King David Simmons / Daniel Davis / Willie Simmons / Gaston L.

Dortch / Foster B. Stevens / Mack Elliott / Isaac Stevens / James Irvin Fulford / Elam Summerlin

/ Wm. James Gardner / James G. Summerlin / Adrian H. Grantham / Ben Ira Taylor / Moses

Hadley / Nathaniel K. Thornton / Samuel Hadley / Arthur Turner / Herbert Lee Handley /

William Walston / George R. Hardesty / R.H. Westbrook / Faison Harris / Grover Cleveland

Wiggins / James Hill / Major Williams / Sidney W. Hinson / Danzie Winn / Wyatt Hinson / Guy

Winstead / James Herbert Hogan / Shade Wooten

2nd Bronze plaque: In Memory Of The Sons Of Wayne / Who Served And Died In World War II

/ And The Korean Conflict / World War II / Robert E. Abel / Marvin L. Faircloth / Albert J.

Adams / Stephen P. Faircloth / Henry W. Allen, Jr. / Joseph Farah / Bruce Anderson / Louis H.

Faulk / Raymond R. Anderson / Reulien R. Floyd / Cleveland C. Balkcum / Thurston D.

Fogleman / George W. Barber / Alleyne Foster / William A. Barwick / Carl E. Franklin / Jerry H.

Beamon / Ralph Giddens / Benjamin F. Bell / George E. Grantham / William H. Bell / Robert

Greenfield / Robert O. Benton / Clifton Hamm / J.R. Best / Thomas P. Harrison / Norman E.

Best / Robert R. Hatch / James Horace Blackman / Henry Edward Herring / James Lee

Blackman / Cecil Hertford / Paul L. Borden, Jr. / May S. Higgins / William Louis Britt / David

R. Hill / Ben R. Brock / Ray Hill / Glennie M. Brock / Liston Levi Hines / Lee Roy Brogden /

Wilbert O. Hodge / James L. Byrd / John Hollingsworth / Archie B. Carter / Horace Horton /

Raeford L. Campbell / Roland W. Horton, Jr. / Carl C. Casey / James L. Howell / Earl

Chestnutt / Charles M. Howell / Linwood Ray Combs / Ernest C. Howell / Harold Crawford /

George F. Howell / Lawton Crumpler, Jr. / W.A. Harry Hundley / Wayne Garland Crumpler /

Alton Jarmon / Woodard W. Crumpler / Louis J. Jernigan / Edward Carlyle Daly / Douglas T.

Johnson / Jake Davis / Wayne Lee Johnson / I.D. Dickerson / Jack Jones / James Edmundson /

Melvin B. Jones / Clarence M. Edwards / Roy Wayne Jones / Wayne Roland Edwards / J.C.

Jones / William H. Ellis / Charles C. Keller / Albert L. Ellington / Roscoe Kelly / Richard

Elmore / Charles S. Killette / Ray E. Eubanks / Ben R. King / Gene J. Elzas / Willie Lane

3rd bronze plaque: In Memory Of The Sons Of Wayne County / Who Served And Died In The

Vietnam War / Emmett E. Ballree / Casco D. Howell / George P. Power / Muray L. Borden, Jr. /

Ernest R. Howell / James L. Ratliff / James R. Coates / Ralph Howell / Richard V. Riggs /

William D. Crawford / Robert H. Irwin / William C. Sutton / Donald E. Daniels / Dan L.

Jenkins / Edmund R. Toler / Edgar F. Davis / Stokely J. Jones / Paul G. Underwood / James P.

DeVaney / Wilbert E. Jones / Kenneth E. VanHoy / Robert A. Govan / Bobby R. Lane / Albert

Vick Jr. / Joseph M. Grantham, III / Billy W. McKeel / Richard W. Watson / William W. Hai /

Rudolph S. Parrish / Phillip D. Hardy / Herbert Pearsall, Jr. / Joseph N. Hargrove / Phillip W.

Pigford

4th bronze plaque: In Memory Of The Sons Of Wayne / Who Served And Died In World War II /

And The Korean Conflict / World War II / Harvey J. Langston / John Sauls / Raymond J.

Langston / Leonard O. Savage / Charles C. Lassiter / Charles Marcus Scott / Henry H. Lee / Neal

Scott / Rayford S. Lynch / Ira S. Smith / Gary L. MacDonald / L.L. Smith / Carl O. Martin / Earl

C. Smith / Hugh D. Marshburn / Levert L. Smith, Jr. / James T. Marshburn / Harold H. Smothers

/ Wilbert C. Massey, Jr. / Emmett Spicer / James P. McLamb / Kermit Stallings / Margus I.

McCarty / Alvin T. Strickland / Tyson Hardy Mewborn / Richard Summerlin / James Allen

Mozingo / Daniel C. Sutton / Earnest Newsome / Edd Leddell Sutton / Melville W. Odom /

Herbert A. Sutton / James L. Parker / James L. Taylor / William F. Parker / Henry A. Taylor /

Tryphon D. Peacock / Benjamin W. Taylor / Willis G. Peele, Jr. / Robert L. Taylor / Boddie

Perry / James A. Thomas / William J. Pierce / James Richard Troutman / Charlie E. Pike /

Johnnie / Joseph Turnage / Donald N. Pope / Ira Wade / James A. Powell / Charles Warren /

Dudley A. Powell, Jr. / Henry Edwin Weeks / Leon Price / Gordon Whitaker, Jr. / Charles

Malcolm Price / Charles E. Wiegand / Royal Puckett / Cecil H. Wiggs / Roscoe Quinn / Robert

E. Williams / Blanton E. Reaves / William C. Wilson, Jr. / Joe Renfrow / Joseph D. Winchester /

Bryant Roberts / George B. Womble, Jr. / Willie Rogers / Donza Wood / John C. Rose, Jr. /

Bernice R. Wynn / John G. Rowe / Ray Edwin York / Korean Conflict / James Elisha Bass /

James Lee Kornegay / Daniel Joseph Carter / John W. Lamm / William Lloyd Howell / I.L.

Littleton / John Henry King / James Merritt / Forrest L. Price

Custodian:

Geo coordinates:

35.382432, -77.994779

City:

Goldsboro, NC

County :

Wayne

Dedication Date:

1925-06-26

Dedication Date (Text):

June 26, 1925

Supporting Sources:

“History,” Wayne Veterans Memorial, (accessed January 27, 2015)

Young, Karinne. “Community Building Has Rich History,”<i>The Goldsboro

News-Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) May 3, 2004, (accessed February 25, 2015)

Atkins, Sam. “Residents React to Loss of Community Building”<i>The Goldsboro News-

Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) May 3, 2004, (accessed February 25, 2015)

Stephens, Jack. “79-Year-Old Community Landmark Burns,”<i>The Goldsboro

News-Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) May 3, 2004, (accessed February 25, 2015)

“Lightning Ruled Out As Cause of Community Building Fire,”<i>The Goldsboro News-

Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) May 4, 2004, (accessed February 25, 2015)

Arntsen, Barbara. “Community Building’s Board Agrees on Rebuilding Landmark,”<i>The

Goldsboro News-Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) May 6, 2004, (accessed February 25, 2015)

Stephens, Jack. “Fire Probe Closed Without Resolution,”<i>The Goldsboro

News-Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) May 12, 2004, (accessed February 25, 2015)

Otis, H. G.. “Highest National Recognition Given Plans of Our Proposed War Memorial

Building,”<i>Goldsboro Daily Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) August 14, 1919, (accessed February

25, 2015)

Brown, Emmett R.. “Report on Memorial Campaign,”<i>News and Observer</i>(Raleigh, NC)

January 11, 1920, (accessed February 25, 2015)

“Local Briefs,”<i>Goldsboro Daily Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) August 4, 1919, (accessed

February 25, 2015)

“Wayne County Leads Again,”<i>Goldsboro Daily Argus</i>(Goldsboro, NC) August 4, 1919,

(accessed February 25, 2015)

Recommended Fields:

Creator:

C.A. Casner, designer

Public Site:

Yes

Materials Techniques:

Brick and Wood

Sponsor :

Wayne County Memorial Community Building Committee:

W.R. Allen, Chairman

G.A. Norwood

G.C. Kornegay

R.D. Irwin

Edgar H. Bain

W.E. Borden

W.F. Taylor

Jos. E. Robinson

D.C. Humphrey

U.M. Gillikin

W.F. Patrick

F.W. Hooks

J.A. Daughtry

Joe A. Parker

Lionel Weil

Monument Cost (Dollars):

250000

Monument Cost (Text):

$250,000

Monument Dedication and Unveiling:

Optional Fields:

Nickname:

Subject Notes:

Controversies:

The Wayne County Memorial Community Building burned down in May of 2004 due to a fire

that is assumed to have been caused by an electrical plug.

Location:

The Community Building was located on the corner of Walnut Street in Goldsboro, NC.

Landscape:

Death space:

Former locations:

Post dedication use:

Yes

Post dedication use description:

It was a community building and housed events very similar to those conducted at modern day

YMCAs. It also served as a meeting place for town organizations and community activities.

Approval Process:

The building of this memorial community building was approved and adopted by Wayne

County’s Board of Commissioners, Goldsboro’s Board of Aldermen, and the Goldsboro

Chamber of Commerce, and the National Bureau of Memorial Buildings.

Materials assembly cost text: