It was dedicated in the 1920s in honor of General of the Armies John J. Pershing and includes a memorial to Fulton County soldiers who died in World War I.

Georgia Governor Hugh Dorsey read a list of the 130 residents of Fulton County who had died in the war, whose names were engraved in the granite memorial.

This memorial, located near the base of the triangle, was flanked on either side by granite benches that had the names of several major battles of World War I engraved on them.

[3] The park itself was named after General of the Armies John J. Pershing,[1][4] who had led the American Expeditionary Forces during the war.

[10] Following these restorations, the memorial was rededicated on the one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which triggered World War I.