After a group of WW I veterans returned from the war, they decided to charter an American Legion Post. It was charted by 17 WW I Veterans.
CP JOURNAL; PERRY L. HEINTZ; HC CLAYITON; RO DARNELL; OR COLEMAN; HAROLD M SHARP; JOHN T. SHROYER; ORAL C. MORRISON; ALBERT M. CAMOMILE; HAROLD.A. BUIRLEY; CHARLES W. TUCKER; A.W. DAVIS; WILLIAM S. BUIRLEY; HAROLD F. COLE; DORSEY MORRIS; WILLIAM T. MILLER; CHARLES F. MILLER. THE AMERICAN LEGION MET IN A BUILDING FOR SEVERAL YEARS IN JACKSON CENTER AND THEN MOVED TO THE SECOND FLOOR ABOVE THE U.S. POSTAL BUILDING IN JACKSON CENTER. AFTER A FIRE, THE BUILDING WAS RECONSTRUCTED AT 627 EAST COLLEGE STREET WHERE IT PRESENTLY RESIDES. THE PLOT OF LAND WAS GIVEN TO THE POST BY MERTON MAXWELL. THE POST HOME WAS ERECTED BY WW II, KOREAN AND VIETNAM VETERANS IN 1967. IN 2012 THE SON'S OF THE AMERICAN LEGION DETACHEMENT 493 RENOVATED THE INTERIOR AND IN 2017 A NEW ROOF AND WINDOWS WERE INSTALLED. OUR LEGACY IS TO LEAVE OUR POST HOME TO VETERANS WITH THE SAME INTENT GIVEN TO US BY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS AND THAT IS TO PRESERVE, CONTRIBUTE, HELP AND SUPPORT ALL VETERANS, WIDOWS AND ORPHANS. WITH THE NEW ROOF AND WINDOWS, THOSE WHO FOLLOW IN OUR FOOTSTEPS WILL NOT HAVE TO DO ANY MAJOR REPAIR WORK FOR AT LEAST 50 YEARS. WE ARE PROUD VETERANS OF OUR HERITAGE.
