Civil War Memorial

Historical marker location:

Creston, Iowa

( Memorial is at the intersection of McKinley Street and Lake Avenue, on the right when traveling south on McKinley Street.)

1861 - 1865.

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.