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County: Montgomery

Courthouse Burned

Marker Number: 

586

Location: 

Courthouse Lawn, Mt. Sterling

Twenty-two Kentucky courthouses were burned during Civil War, nineteen in last fifteen months: twelve by Confederates, eight by guerrillas, two by Union accident. See map on reverse side. Dec. 2, 1863, CSA cavalry burned courthouse at Mt. Sterling to stop its use as a USA garrison. Clerk's records, in rear, saved. Circuit court records destroyed.

Erected January 8, 1964.

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