Hertert Building

Historical marker location:

1006 6th Street, Harlan, Iowa

( Marker is on 6th Street north of Court Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Erected c. 1887. 1006 6th Street.

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.