Springhill Cemetery. 0.5 mi. SE of jct. of US 127 and KY 1989, Harrodsburg, Kentucky. County/parish: Mercer.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 17, 1997. NRIS 97000676.
Part of Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS (NRIS 64500229).
1 contributing object.Also known as:
The Beriah Magoffin Monument, in Spring Hill Cemetery of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, commemorates Beriah Magoffin, who was governor of Kentucky when the Civil War started. Although sympathetic to secession, he sought to retain neutrality for Kentucky for the conflict, until pro-Union forces compelled him to resign from the governorship.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123847977