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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Although national ratification of the 13th Amendment meant Kentucky was bound to the federal law, Kentucky did not itself ratify it until 1976. As always, thank goodness for Mississippi. It did ...
Content related to cemeteries located in the U. S. State of Kentucky which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the United States' official national heritage register) and other listed properties that include places of interment: graveyards, burial plots, crypts, mausoleums, or tombs.