Icarian Colony

Historical marker location:

Corning, Iowa

( Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 34 and Mulberry Avenue, on the left when traveling east on U.S. 34.)

The first American casualty of World War I was a sailor from Iowa named Merle Hay. He was killed when the German submarine U-58 torpedoed the USS Jacob Jones on December 6, 1917.