Portal:Kentucky/Did you know.../8
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- ... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument (pictured) in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
- ... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
- ... that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
- ... that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
- ... that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, and only one of four in the United States?