Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery
cemetery
Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery is one mile from the old Kentucky Confederate Home site. The National Register of Historic Places lists the cemetery and separately an individual monument within it, the Confederate Memorial in Pewee Valley, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. It is the only cemetery for Confederate veterans, 313 in total, that is an official state burying ground in Kentucky.
History
In May 1871, several local citizens of Pewee Valley, Kentucky, twenty miles (32 km) northeast of Louisville, Kentucky, decided they wanted a local public cemetery. By August 1871, the land was purchased. The following spring, in 1872, the cemetery was organized, and plants were placed to beautify the area. When they were finished, they asked for a charter from the Kentucky state government.
Close to the cemetery, the Villa Ridge Inn was built in 1889. The site was a four-story summer resort that was to be popular with Louisville entrepreneurs and their families. However, despite a $90,000 construction with "majestic architecture", it never attracted enough visitors to stay in business. Between the inn's closure and 1902, it temporarily became a private high school, the successor to the Kentucky College for Young Ladies.
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