Bourbon County Confederate Monument

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location= Paris, Kentucky
lat_degrees = 38
lat_minutes = 12
lat_seconds = 10.35
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 84
long_minutes = 15
long_seconds = 55.24
long_direction = W
locmapin = Kentucky
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built =1887
architect=
architecture= No Style Listed
added = July 17, 1997
governing_body = Local
mpsub=Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
refnum=97000719cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Bourbon County Confederate Monument, located in the middle of the Paris Cemetery of Paris, Kentucky, was built by the Confederate Monument Association in 1887. Like many monuments to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, it is an obelisk, but is unique for being built like a chimney. The structure is made of mortared limestone, locally quarried, with the chimney being thirty feet tall on a ten foot tall base. [ [http://www.trailsrus.com/monuments/reg4/paris.html Civil War in Kentucky ] ]

On the rear of the monument is a list of all those who died in the War from Bourbon County for the Confederacy, or those serving the Confederacy who died in Bourbon County. [ [http://www.trailsrus.com/monuments/reg4/paris.html Civil War in Kentucky ] ] Bourbon was one of the more Confederate of counties; by November of 1863, 700 men from Bourbon County served for the Confederate cause, whereas only 200 men from the county fought with the Union. [ [http://members.aol.com/CintiCWRT/bluegrass.html Kentucky in the Civil War ] ]

On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty 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.

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location= Paris, Kentucky
built =1847
architect= McMurtry,John
architecture= Gothic Revival
added = November 24, 1978
governing_body = Private
refnum=78001301cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Paris Cemetery's gatehouse, made of granite, is also on the National Register, placed there on November 24, 1978. The cemetery was founded in 1847, with the gatehouse finished in 1862 by architect John McMurty. When opened, many families re-interred their dead in the new cemetery. The most notable person buried here is John Fox, Jr., whose novel "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" was the first work of American literature to sell over a million copies.fact|date=March 2008 Aside from the Confederate Monument, other war memorials in the cemetery honor those who fought in the Mexican-American War, World War II, Korean War, and the Vietnam War. A walking tour has been designed for those wishing to tour the cemetery. [ [http://www.parisky.org/A%20Cemetery.html The Paris Cemetery ] ]

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