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March 26, 1976 (4.5 miles northwest of Tollesboro on Kentucky Route 984: Tollesboro: 2: Hammond-Queen House: Hammond-Queen House: June 27, 2014 (156 2nd St. Vanceburg: 3: Lower Shawneetown Archeological District
The Union Monument in Vanceburg in Lewis County, Kentucky, in Vanceburg, Kentucky, commemorates the Union soldiers of the American Civil War.. The monument was built in 1884 by the citizens of Lewis County, which was a Union stronghold during the war and one of the few places in Kentucky that was still more sympathetic to the Union cause by the 1880s.
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.
Vanceburg is a home rule-class city in Lewis County, Kentucky, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 1,428 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ] It is the county seat of Lewis County.
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
Kentucky was part of Virginia until 1792. The District of Kentucky began with three counties: Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln and Fayette. Part of Fayette County was split off as Bourbon County in 1785; a portion of Bourbon was split off in 1788 as Mason County; in 1806 Lewis County was split off from Mason and named for Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Evergreen cemetery is part of the Gettysburg Battlefield Historic District and played a strategic role in the Battle of Gettysburg. [6] It was the site of the dedication of the adjacent National Cemetery. Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address from a platform in Evergreen Cemetery. [7] [8] Greendale Cemetery: 1853: Meadville, Pennsylvania
Kentucky Route 73 at the Louisville and Nashville Railroad tracks, and by the junction of U.S. Route 68 36°53′05″N 86°38′40″W / 36.884722°N 86.644444°W / 36.884722; -86.644444 ( South Union Shakertown Historic