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Columbus-Belmont State Park

Kentucky, US

Columbus-Belmont State Park

Columbus-Belmont State Park, on the shores of the Mississippi River in Hickman County, near Columbus, Kentucky, is the site of a Confederate fortification built during the American Civil War. The site was considered by both North and South to be strategically significant in gaining and keeping contr

ol of the Mississippi River. It commemorates military actions in Columbus, Kentucky, and across the river in Belmont, Missouri.

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