Locker Park

Historical marker location:

100 E Dakota Ave, George, Iowa

( Marker is at the intersection of East Dakota Avenue and N Main St on East Dakota Avenue.)

In 1917, a German submarine sank the SS Housatonic, a U.S. freighter carrying food and supplies to Europe during World War I, off the coast of South Carolina. Among the crew members who went down with the ship was an Iowa native named Herbert C. Jones, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the sinking.