Confederate Cemetery
Also known as Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery
Pewee Valley, Oldham County, Kentucky, USA
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Pewee Valley, Kentucky 40056 United StatesCoordinates: 38.30330, -85.47610 - Cemetery ID:
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In 1904, the Pewee Valley Cemetery assigned 11,275 square feet to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for use by the Kentucky Confederate Home for a Confederate Burying Ground. Eventually, 313 men, mostly inmates of the Home, were buried there. Today, it is the state's only official burying ground for Confederate soldiers.
This cemetery is identified as the Confederate Pewee Valley Cemetery (number 148A) in Oldham County Records Volume I, Cemeteries, edited by Edna Scott McKechnie and Willada Rickman Dent, © 1974 Oldham County Historical Society.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 489953 (Confederate Cemetery).
In 1904, the Pewee Valley Cemetery assigned 11,275 square feet to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for use by the Kentucky Confederate Home for a Confederate Burying Ground. Eventually, 313 men, mostly inmates of the Home, were buried there. Today, it is the state's only official burying ground for Confederate soldiers.
This cemetery is identified as the Confederate Pewee Valley Cemetery (number 148A) in Oldham County Records Volume I, Cemeteries, edited by Edna Scott McKechnie and Willada Rickman Dent, © 1974 Oldham County Historical Society.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 489953 (Confederate Cemetery).
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Pewee Valley, Oldham County, Kentucky, USA
- Total memorials146
- Percent photographed73%
- Percent with GPS3%
Pewee Valley, Oldham County, Kentucky, USA
- Total memorials601
- Percent photographed88%
- Percent with GPS4%
- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 73501
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