Confederate Memorial in Mayfield
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The Confederate Memorial in Mayfield is a commemorative monument and fountain located on the courthouse lawn in downtown Mayfield, Kentucky. [1]
Mayfield
Mayfield during the Civil War was very supportive of the Confederate States of America. Representatives from seven western Kentucky counties and twenty western Tennessee counties met at Mayfield in May 1861 to discuss forming a new state that would join the Confederacy. The secession of Tennessee on June 8, 1861, caused the proposal to be abandoned,[2] In 1864 Union forces occupied the town and forced the townspeople to help fortify the courthouse, which was destroyed later that year. The courthouse behind the memorial fountain was built in 1889.[1]
Description
Mayfield's United Daughters of the Confederacy obtained the fountain in 1917 from the McNeal Marble Company in Marietta, Georgia at the cost of $1,650. (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".). The fountain, which no longer emits water, is a Script error: No such module "convert". obelisk with wings that double as benches. On the end of the wings are Script error: No such module "convert". light posts that are eight feet away from the center obelisk. Below the northern post's light is inscribed "1861", and below the southern post's light is inscribed "1865". At the base of each light post is a CSA symbol. The center obelisk has a plaque with three different Confederate flags in copper relief on its top. The plaque's inscription reads, "TO THE MEMORY / OF THE / CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS / OF GRAVES COUNTY".[1][3]
National Register of Historic Places
On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one 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. One other monument on the list, the Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield, is nearby in Maplewood Cemetery, north of downtown Mayfield. Other monuments on the list that are also fountains are the Confederate Monument of Cadiz and the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville.[4]
References
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- ↑ a b c Mayfield, Ky. Trailsrus.com
- ↑ Graves County KY Historical Society Template:Webarchive, Accessed November 3, 2008
- ↑ Brent, Joseph. Confederate Memorial in Mayfield NRHP Nomination Form (Kentucky Heritage Council, 1997) p.1
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