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Camp Nelson National Monument, formerly the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, is a 525-acre (2.12 km 2) national monument, historical museum and park located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Lexington, Kentucky.
Kentucky’s slow and winding route to emancipation is getting more attention, thanks to Camp Nelson’s rolling hills and palisades becoming a national monument site in 2018 after years of ...
Camp Nelson National Monument 6614 Danville Road Loop 2, Nicholasville; Visiting Center and Museum open 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday-Sunday; Camp Nelson National Monument open sunrise to sunset every day.
It does not apply to Kentucky, which had not joined the Confederacy. April 1863: Camp Nelson is established as a U.S. Army depot logistics center for the Western Theater of the Civil War. Enslaved ...
Camp Nelson National Cemetery interred the remains of armed forces personnel and veterans who served in conflicts from the late 19th century until it closed to new burials in 1964. [3] In 1975, the donation of 10 acres (4.0 ha) just outside the cemetery's stone wall allowed it to begin accepting new burials again.
This is a complete list of National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky. [1] ... Camp Nelson Historic and Archeological District: February 27, 2013 : Nicholasville
Camp Nelson is now a national monument, and historians like UK’s Amy Murrell Taylor have uncovered much of the site’s history as a refugee camp for enslaved Kentuckians who made their ...
Pages in category "National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky" ... Camp Nelson National Monument; Churchill Downs; E. Ephraim McDowell House; F. Fort Boonesborough State ...