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Lloyd Tilghman (January 18, 1816 – May 16, 1863) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War.. A railroad construction engineer by background, he was selected by the Confederate government to build two forts to defend the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
Farther view of Tilghman Memorial. The Lloyd Tilghman Memorial is a statue located in Paducah Kentucky, of Lloyd Tilghman, a brigadier general for the Confederate States of America who died at the Battle of Champion Hill in May 1863. Lloyd Tilghman was a native of Maryland who lived in Paducah from 1852 to 1861. He joined the Confederate army ...
The city was also a division point for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The period of significance is from 1855, when the oldest building in the district was built, to 1957 when the area had reached the culmination of its development.
West Bend got its start in the early 1880s, following the construction of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway through that territory. It was originally called Ives after the president of the railroad, but the townspeople had it changed to West Bend from the bend in the river. West Bend (aka Ives) was the first town in Palo Alto ...
Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. [12] [13] According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."
The first Kentucky monument to the Confederate States of America, and the second one anywhere 29: Hart: Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument: 1884 Munfordville: Largest confederate monument on private land. 30: Hart: Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Horse Cave: 1934 Horse Cave: Only monument on the list composed of geodes: 31: Henry
Lloyd Tilghman Memorial: Paducah, Lang Park (formerly Confederate Park) Henry Hudson Kitson, sculptor Roman Bronze Works, founder Eugene Gargani, caster bronze, granite base dedicated May 15, 1909 Gift of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the United Confederate Veterans. [59] Confederate Monument in Danville: Danville, Kentucky
First Presbyterian Church, also known as First United Presbyterian Church, Templar Lodge No. 514, and the West Bend Historical Museum, is a historic building located in West Bend, Iowa, United States. The first recorded Protestant services in town were led by a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. David S. McComb in 1851.