Carbon County World War I Memorial

Read the names on this memorial and you read the coal county that sent them. Carbon County lost two dozen young men in the First World War, and their names carry the whole world the coalfields had drawn together: Albo and Redo from Italy, Palliouthakis from Greece, Naranjo from the Hispanic Southwest, alongside the Bakers and Robertses and Andersons. Immigrants and native sons, they went from the mines and farms of a remote Utah county to the trenches of France, and did not come back. The county raised this monument to them in 1938.

What the plaque says

In memory of Carbon County boys who gave their services and lives in the World War, 1917-1918 Stevenson, George West · Thomas, Guy Irving · Albo, Vincenzo · Anderson, Edward C. · Baker, Burl H. · Crawford, Abraham J. · Curtis, Adolphus B. · Harding, Ben A. · Larsen, Lawrence E. · Lietz, William · Mather, William H. · Mccomb, William J. · Mitchell, Charles J. · Naranjo, Joe R. · Palliouthakis, George · Powell, Joseph · Redo, Frank · Roberts, John W. · Thomas, Arthur P. · Walkington, William H. · Worley, Nelden F. · Zobell, Henry R.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern — 0.6 mi
  A small-town museum punching way above its weight in dinosaur science
• Price — 0.6 mi
  A gritty coal mining town with a surprisingly excellent dinosaur museum
• Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — 21 mi
  The densest concentration of Jurassic-era dinosaur bones ever found

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