On May 30, 1921, the Tyrone Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad dedicated a memorial stone at the railroad depot on So. Pennsylvania Ave. to honor its Tyrone servicemen who had served in World War I. Charles H. Cassidy Sr., of Tyrone, posed for the statue, known to many as the “doughboy” statue. (American infantrymen in World War I were referred to as doughboys.) 
    After World War I I, the statue and plaque were moved to Soldiers Park. The big stone, too heavy to move over the Pennsylvania Ave. bridge across the Little Juniata River, has become part of the Tyrone Rail Park. 
    A new stone was made from rock taken from nearby Dry Run. The dirt around the new monument came from each of the fourteen local cemeteries where Tyrone service people are buried.