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Welcome to the Cabell County WWI Memorial Boulevard research website. This site contains information on all of the soldiers honored in the dedication of the Cabell County WWI Memorial Boulevard, which honors the soldiers from this county that died in the First World War. This research was begun by the website author as part of his Eagle Scout Project, and has since been expanded.

The Memorial Boulevard Trail consists of two rows of 91 total trees on each side of Memorial Boulevard in Huntington, West Virginia. Along the Boulevard are signs with some of the soldiers’ basic information.

The easiest way to access and navigate the information I have collected on the soldiers is through the Clio Virtual Trail, which you can visit here: https://www.theclio.com/entry/42936.

Also available is my book, In the Service of Their Country, which is available here: https://www.lulu.com/shop/benjamin-woodard/in-the-service-of-their-country/paperback/product-24006245.html.

This site contains pages with the soldiers’ information and photos, as well as sources for the information. It also contains transcriptions of newspaper articles relating to the soldiers and a history of the Memorial Boulevard. The best place to start is the “Favorite Stories” tab. For the soldiers’ information, go to “Soldiers”. For information about and the history of Huntington’s Memorial Boulevard and the new trail, go to “Boulevard Trail”. For newspaper transcriptions, go to “Newspapers” (newspapers for individual soldiers can also be found through their individual information pages). For information on everything else (the author, the project, updates, acknowledgements, etc.) see “About” and the tabs below it.

To reach the author, Benjamin Woodard, click the “Contact” tab.

This website is dedicated to all of Cabell County’s soldiers, past, present and future.

 

All Content (c) 2017-2020 Benjamin Woodard – To request permission to use content on this site, please contact me (cabellwwi@yahoo.com).