Louisville Confederate Monument
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The Louisville Confederate Monument is a 70 foot tall monument on the University of Louisville Belknap Campus in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Completed in 1895, it was built with funding from the Kentucky Women's Confederate Monument Association. It is located at the intersection of 2nd and 3rd Streets. It is the largest American Civil War monument in Kentucky.
During the 1920s and 1940s there were plans to remove the monument for road construction, until public sentiment saved it. In 2002 plans were initiated to make it part of a "Freedom Plaza", with trees transplanted from Civil War battlefields. [1]
The monument was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
[edit] Monument images
 View of the monuments from the north |
 Front view of a Confederate artillerist. Note the aging of the marker |
 Backview of a Confederate artillerist. Note the aging of the marker |
 Closeup from the front/North |
 Closeup from the back/South |
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