Historical Marker
Veterans Memorial
Historical marker location:
1844 South Cherry Street Road, Creston, Iowa
( Memorial is on Cherry Street Road, 1.2 miles south of Taylor Street (U.S. 34), on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1961
In the mid-1800s, Iowa was a major hub for the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to freedom in the North.