Cave Hill Cemetery. Jct. of Payne St. and Lexington Rd., Louisville, Kentucky. County/parish: Jefferson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 17, 1997. NRIS 97000687.
Part of Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS (NRIS 64500229).
1 contributing object.Also known as:
The Union Monument in Louisville is located in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. It was built in 1914 from granite, honoring unknown soldiers who fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It is in front of the large number of Union soldiers buried at Cave Hill.
The inscription on the monument reads: "In Memory of / Unknown Union Soldiers / Buried in This Cemetery / 1861 — 1865 / Erected by / Kentucky Comrades / 1914".
The monument was one of sixty American Civil War monuments in Kentucky that were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123847431