Built 1907 Opened 1907 | NRHP Reference # 97000678 Added to NRHP 17 July 1997 | |
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Location Oak Grove Cemetery. W of jct. of Park Ave. and 13th St., Paducah, Kentucky MPS Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS Similar Confederate Monument of Morga, Confederate Monument in Harrod, Confederate Monument in Danville, Confederate Monument at Crab O, Confederate Monument in Frankfort | ||
The Confederate Monument in Paducah, located northwest of downtown Paducah, Kentucky is a historic monument located in Paducah's Oak Grove Cemetery.
It was built in 1907 on behalf of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is a 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) granite obelisk. Six Confederate war dead are buried by the monument.
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 Lloyd Tilghman Memorial, is nearby.
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