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Confederate Monument in Paducah

Paducah, Italy

Confederate Monument in Paducah

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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