Manatee County leaders unanimously approved naming a road in honor of a fallen soldier from the Bradenton area — and more is on the way to support local veterans.
Pfc. Christopher Cobb, the first casualty in the Iraq War from Manatee County, will be honored with a memorial highway on Prospect Road between Tallevast Road and Whitfield Avenue.
Cobb died at 19 years old in 2004 during a battle in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom, about two months after being deployed. He also posthumously received the Purple Heart.
Commissioner Bob McCann, a Navy veteran, brought the item forward at the Board of County Commissioner’s meeting on Oct. 21 to rename the segment of Prospect Road in honor of Cobb…