Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville
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| Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1911 |
| Architect: | Davis Monument Co., Hopkinsville, KY |
| Architectural style(s): | No Style Listed |
| Added to NRHP: | July 17, 1997 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 97000710 |
| MPS: | Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS |
| Governing body: | Local |
The Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a monument placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was dedicated in October 1911.[2]
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.[3]
The memorial fountain, eight feet tall and made of white marble, was built due to the local chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy spending five years to attain the funds to erect it. It was initially located at the corner of 9th Street and Main Street, but was later located in front of the Christian County Courthouse. It was initially a public drinking fountain, but the mechanism no longer works.[4]
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. Hopkinsville's is the only functional monument not in the Purchase area of Kentucky, it is in the Pennyrile region. 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.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2008-04-15).
- ^ http://www.trailsrus.com/monuments/reg2/hopkinsville.html
- ^ http://migration.kentucky.gov/kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=County&county=24
- ^ http://www.trailsrus.com/monuments/reg2/hopkinsville.html
- ^ Joseph E. Brent (January 8, 1997), National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Civil War Monuments in Kentucky, 1865-1935PDF (1.81 MiB), National Park Service
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