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County: Harlan

Courthouse Burned

Marker Number: 

588

Location: 

Courthouse Lawn, Harlan

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. The courthouse at Harlan was burned in reprisal for burning of Lee County, Va., courthouse, October, 1863. County records in clerk's office nearby were saved.

Erected in 1963.

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