A plaque memorializing four Rome teens who died in the 1946 Winecoff Hotel fire will be dedicated July 25.
The Myrtle Hill/Oak Hill Memorial Association, along with Old Rome High, has scheduled a ceremony for 10:30 a.m. at the Coosa Country Club.
The plaque, funded through private donations, will be installed at the corner of Broad Street and Sixth Avenue at a later date.
Still ranked as one of the nation’s worst fire disasters, the blaze at the supposedly fire-proof Atlanta hotel killed 119 people — including four boys representing Rome Hi-Y at the annual Georgia Youth Assembly.
Charles Wilkes Keith, 15; George William “Billy” Walden, 16; Lamar Brown, 16 and James “Buzz” Slatton, 16 were well-known student leaders and their deaths stunned the close-knit community.
Anne Salmon Culpepper, a Rome High freshman at the time of the fire, launched the memorial plaque drive on the sixtieth anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1946 fire.
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