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Atten-Shun!
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. . and "Welcome" to
Military@HarrisonCountyKy.US!
Many are the memorials which
mark the contributions of Harrison County and its
people to the U.S. military. A visit to the
courthouse square in Cynthiana will reveal an almost
complete set which commemorates the service of those
who joined the military to fight in World Wars and
Cold Wars. Plaques inside the courthouse doors tell
of service in the Revolutionary War and Desert
Storm. The county’s role in the Civil War is marked
by historical tableaux outside as well as by the
Confederate Monument in Battle Grove Cemetery.
Within that cemetery’s fences are the county’s
Mexican War monument and the recent addition of a
commemorative "Veterans Walk," in addition to just
over a thousand individual grave markers which give
some indication of military service at times when
the country was at war or at peace.
Memorials to nearly 30,000
individuals exist in the form of stones in
cemeteries in Cynthiana and which dot the
countryside beside churches or smaller communities,
or on long forgotten or neglected family plots of
old family homesteads.
A dozen historical markers rest
beside the county’s roads and highways, many of
which document the trail that Confederate General
John Hunt Morgan blazed through the county in 1862
and 1864. Many old homes and sites are on the
National Register of Historic Places, homes which
belonged to the trailblazers of the county's
settlement just after the Revolutionary War.
So if you were told that
Harrison County has no sense of its contribution to
the military history of the United States, you would
be wrong.
At present certain subsites are
being rearranged at
www.HarrisonCountyKy.US. The following
subsites will now be listed under the Places
heading, or
www.HarrisonCountyKy.US/Military/.
Just click on any of the links
above to get to where you want to be going.
Remember all of these subsites can always be reached
via links at the home page of
www.HarrisonCountyKy.US.
"Good Luck" with your research!
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