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The memorial was one of 60 different Civil War properties in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places on the same day, July 17, 1997. Three other properties listed that day are also located in Lexington: the John C. Breckinridge Memorial, which is on the other side of the same block as the Morgan Memorial, and the Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington and the Ladies ...
Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky.. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the cholera epidemic in the area.
The monuments were removed October 17, 2017. [7] In November 2017, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council approved an agreement to relocate the Breckinridge and Morgan statues to the Lexington Cemetery. [8] The relocation was completed in July 2018. [9]
Headstone markers of Breckinridge family members next to John Cabell Breckinridge monument at the Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Ky on May 9, 2024. ... 1863 at the Lexington Cemetery in ...
Headstones at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Ky on May 9, 2024. The cemetery is privately owned and operated by a board of directors and is not maintained by the city.
Close to the Monument is the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, also part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. Four residents of Lexington with means funded the construction of the monuments, buying a statue built in Carrara, Italy from a catalog, and in 1893 was erected by the Muldoon Monument Company. The names of 160 veterans of the ...
Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington: 1893 Lexington: 18: Fayette: John C. Breckinridge Memorial: 1887 Lexington: Relocated from historic courthouse lawn to Lexington Cemetery October 2017 19: Fayette: John Hunt Morgan Memorial: 1911 Lexington: Dedicated to the hometown Confederate. Relocated to Lexington Cemetery in October 2017 20: Fayette
The Ladies' Confederate Memorial is an American Civil War monument erected in 1874 in Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. Unlike most Confederate monuments in Kentucky, it represents grief rather than Southern ...