Blue Grass Memorial Cemetery
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Blue Grass Memorial Cemetery

Also known as Cemetery A , Mount Zion Cemetery , Mount Zion Reinterment Cemetery

Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky, USA

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  • Get directions Battlefield Memorial Highway (US 421)
    Richmond, Kentucky 40475 United States
    Coordinates: 37.68075, -84.25762
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In 1942 the U.S. Army acquired by condemnation 15,000 acres of land in Madison County, Kentucky. To build the Blue Grass Ordnance Depot on this land, over 150 family properties were purchased. As part of the purchase agreement, all buried remains on those properties were disinterred and relocated to parcels of land designated for that purpose. Two cemeteries were established, one for "whites" (Cemetery A/Blue Grass Memorial Cemetery) on US-421 and one for "colored" (Cemetery B/Parks Cemetery) on Speedwell Road. There were a total of 901 remains relocated to Cemetery A. The names of 672 of those relocated are unknown because the original graves were either unmarked or marked only with field stones. Trustees were appointed for each cemetery and the Army gave a sum of money for upkeep. In 1973 the U.S. Army notified the community that it would no longer pay to maintain the cemeteries. Since that time the Blue Grass Memorial Cemetery (Cemetery A) has been legally abandoned. The cemetery has become overgrown with trees and brush. Many of the gravestones have been vandalized and broken.
In 1942 the U.S. Army acquired by condemnation 15,000 acres of land in Madison County, Kentucky. To build the Blue Grass Ordnance Depot on this land, over 150 family properties were purchased. As part of the purchase agreement, all buried remains on those properties were disinterred and relocated to parcels of land designated for that purpose. Two cemeteries were established, one for "whites" (Cemetery A/Blue Grass Memorial Cemetery) on US-421 and one for "colored" (Cemetery B/Parks Cemetery) on Speedwell Road. There were a total of 901 remains relocated to Cemetery A. The names of 672 of those relocated are unknown because the original graves were either unmarked or marked only with field stones. Trustees were appointed for each cemetery and the Army gave a sum of money for upkeep. In 1973 the U.S. Army notified the community that it would no longer pay to maintain the cemeteries. Since that time the Blue Grass Memorial Cemetery (Cemetery A) has been legally abandoned. The cemetery has become overgrown with trees and brush. Many of the gravestones have been vandalized and broken.

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