1. 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 /

2. 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

3. 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:

4. 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)

5. “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

6. 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: