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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.
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.
On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. There is another monument to Colonel Robert A. Smith in Edinburgh, where he was born, in the large Victorian Dean Cemetery. The ...
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 ...
[3] [4] In June 1867, after Cave Hill National Cemetery was established at Louisville, Kentucky, the monument and the remains of 21 Union soldiers, 14 of them from the 32nd Indiana, were moved from the Cemetery at Fort Willich to the national cemetery. [3] [5] [6] [7]
The Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a memorial sculpture located in Frankfort, Kentucky, overlooking the state capital, and containing the names of 1,108 Kentuckians killed in the Vietnam War. The memorial is in the form of a sundial with the names placed so that the tip of the gnomon 's shadow touches each man's name on the date of his ...