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Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville

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Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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LocationHopkinsville, Kentucky
Built1911
ArchitectDavis Monument Co., Hopkinsville, KY
MPSCivil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
NRHP reference No.97000710
Added to NRHPJuly 17, 1997

The Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a monument dedicated in October 1911. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

During the war, Nathan Bedford Forrest made his winter headquarters at Hopkinsville in 1861–1862. On December 12, 1864, Confederate General Hylan B. Lyon burned the county courthouse at Hopkinsville, but the records survived.

The memorial fountain, eight feet tall and made of white marble, was built after the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy spent five years raising the funds to erect it. It was initially located at the corner of 9th Street and Main Street, but was later moved to the front of the Christian County Courthouse. It was built as a public drinking fountain, but the mechanism no longer works.

On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville was one of sixty different monuments related 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. Three other monuments on this Multiple Property Submission were also fountains: two of these are the Confederate Monument of Cadiz and the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield. Fourteen other monuments were built due to the efforts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Latham Confederate Monument is also in Hopkinsville; it is located at Riverside Cemetery to the north side of town.

References

  1. "National Register Information System – (#97000710)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Civil War in Kentucky
  3. KY:Historical Society - Historical Marker Database - Search for Markers Archived 2008-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Joseph E. Brent (January 8, 1997). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935" (pdf). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
List of American Civil War monuments in Kentucky
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See also: Kentucky in the American Civil War
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