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English: A photo taken by user 'westendtownsville' of the Townsville West End cemetery, which was then modified in Adobe Lightroom to enhance the image. Image taken from Church Street, West End. Image taken from Church Street, West End.
This list of cemeteries in Kentucky includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The Kentucky War Memorial is a memorial to Kentuckians who have died in all wars. On a high-point called the "State Mound" in Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky, the memorial consists of a 65-foot-tall monument erected in 1850, nine low stone monuments built in a semi-circle, and two low straight monuments. The 1850 monument honors men ...
One of four fountain monuments in Kentucky [15] 14: Christian: Latham Confederate Monument: 1887 Hopkinsville: In Riverside Cemetery [16] 15: Daviess: Confederate Monument in Owensboro: 1900 Owensboro: Sculpted by the noted George Julian Zolnay [17] 16: Daviess: Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument: 1864 St. Joseph: In cemetery [18] 17: Fayette
The Townsville mutiny was a mutiny by African American servicemen of the United States Army while serving in Townsville, Australia, during World War II. About 600 African American troops from the 96th Battalion, US Army Corps of Engineers , were stationed at a base outside of Townsville called Kelso Field.
American Civil War military monuments and memorials in Kentucky — the MPS (multiple properties submission) accepted group of monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
The park continues to expand with purchases of parcels by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves' Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund and the American Battlefield Trust. An interpretive museum is located near the site where many Confederate soldiers killed in the Battle of Perryville were buried. Monuments, interpretive signage, and ...
George Washington Johnson (May 27, 1811 – April 8, 1862) was the first Confederate governor of Kentucky.A lawyer-turned-farmer from Scott County, Kentucky, Johnson, a supporter of slavery who owned 26 slaves, favored secession as a means of preventing the Civil War, believing the Union and Confederacy would be forces of equal strength, each too wary to attack the other. [1]