Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
One year later, drone pictures and video of the same locations in Mayfield show how it has changed and what downtown landmarks look like today. It still has an eerie, war zone look, but cleaner ...
Entrance/South view of the monuments. The total area of the monuments are 17 by 33 feet (5.2 by 10.1 m). All eighteen monuments face east, like most of the gravestones in Maplewood Cemetery. The most prominent is a life-size likeness of Wooldridge himself, a 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) marble statue in the center of the site, made in Italy. [4]
Mayfield's United Daughters of the Confederacy obtained the fountain in 1917 from the McNeal Marble Company in Marietta, Georgia at the cost of $1,650. (equivalent to $40,000 in 2023). The fountain, which no longer emits water, is a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) obelisk with wings that double as benches. On the end of the wings are 6-foot-tall (1.8 m ...
The monuments were the second monument in Mayfield established by the United Daughters of the Confederacy; the first being the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield in downtown Mayfield. The gates were the third choice for monuments, chosen mostly due to their relatively low cost. The UDC intended them to not only be a monument to the residents of ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Mayfield: Second set of streets represents a boundary increase. Many of the buildings in the district, including the courthouse, suffered major to catastrophic damage on December 10–11, 2021, as a long-track EF4 tornado directly hit the city. 6: Mayfield Electric and Water Systems: Mayfield Electric and Water Systems: August 18, 2011
Mayfield is in the center of the Jackson Purchase, an eight-county region purchased by Isaac Shelby and Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw people in 1818. Mayfield was established as the county seat of Graves County in 1821, and the county was formally organized in 1823. John Anderson is believed to have been the first white settler, arriving in ...
The United States’ Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) surveyed damage in Mayfield, Kentucky, on December 13, after the area was hit by deadly tornadoes late on Friday, December 10.At ...