President Jefferson Davis Monument - Fairview, Kentucky
The one and only president of the CSA was born in a log cabin in what is today Fairview, Kentucky on the site of this monument on June 3, 1808. His family moved to Mississippi during his infancy.
Davis went on to become a West Point graduate, Mexican War hero, Mississippi congressman and senator, and Secretary of War during the Franklin Pierce administration. Davis was a reluctant secessionist but was ignagurated president of the new CSA on February 18, 1861.
In 1907, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, a famous Confederate general from Kentucky, proposed that a monument be built to honor Jefferson Davis at the site of his birthplace. In 1917, construction of the worlds tallest concrete obelisk began.
After a halt during World War I, the obelisk was finally completed in 1924.
Repairs of more than $3mm was spent to repair the elevator, install a backup generator and make the monument handicapped accessible - this was completed in 2004.
At 351 feet tall, it is the largest [unreinforced] concrete obelisk in the world, and the fifth tallest monument in the United States.
The walls are seven feet thick at the base, two feet thick at the top. The monument features an elevator to an observation room which is closed during the Winter.
Jefferson Davis Monument state Historic site in Fairview Kentucky
Jefferson Davis Monument state Historic site in Fairview Kentucky
Jefferson Davis Monument state park in Fairview Kentucky
Jefferson Davis Monument state Historic site in Fairview Kentucky
Jefferson Davis Monument state Historic site in Fairview Kentucky
Jefferson Davis Monument state park in Fairview Kentucky
Jefferson Davis Monument Fairview Ky
A quick flight around this monument for fun.
Jefferson Davis Monument Fairview Kentucky 2017
Jefferson Davis Monument Fairview Kentucky 2017
Jefferson Davis State Historic Site. Fairview, KY
Ground and drone footage of the monument at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site. September 2017
Jefferson Davis Presidential Monument
The Jefferson Davis memorial and Museum in Fairview, Kentucky. The birthplace of the only president of the Confederacy come take a look as we explore this treasure in a small southern town.
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Jefferson Davis Monument state Historic site in Fairview Kentucky. Civil war reenactment
Jefferson Davis Monument state Historic site in Fairview Kentucky
Kentucky's Other President: Jefferson Davis | President's Day | Kentucky Life | KET
Kentucky's Other President: Jefferson Davis
Both Civil War presidents were born in Kentucky. Jefferson Davis, a soldier and statesman who went on to become the president of the Confederate States of America, was born just eight months earlier than Lincoln, on June 3, 1808, and only 100 miles away, in Fairview, here in Christian County. Historians James Klotter and James Ramage offer their views on the similarities and differences between Lincoln and Davis.
Like Lincoln's family, Davis's family left Kentucky during his youth. Davis's family moved first to Louisiana and then to Mississippi. Davis had years of formal schooling Lincoln never had. He returned to Kentucky for portions of his schooling. He was educated at a Catholic school in Springfield—where he was the only Protestant student—and at Transylvania University in Lexington, a training ground for many prominent politicians of the day.
Lincoln married a Kentucky native, Mary Todd of Lexington. Davis's first wife, Sarah, had Kentucky ties: She was Zachary Taylor's daughter. It was an ill-fated union. Taylor opposed the marriage; and Sarah died three months after the wedding of malaria, in 1835. It would be a decade before Davis married again.
In Illinois, Lincoln was defeated by Stephen Douglas in his run for the U.S. Senate. In Mississippi, Davis was twice elected U.S. senator: He was appointed to a vacant seat in 1847, then won election and held the seat until 1851. He returned to the Senate a second time, in 1857, resigning in 1861 when Mississippi seceded from the Union.
Later in his life, Davis always identified himself as a Kentuckian. He is remembered here with a 351-foot-tall concrete obelisk located at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview. Dedicated in 1924, it's the fifth tallest monument in America.
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Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site in Kentucky - a tour of the grounds.
The Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site is a Kentucky state park commemorating the birthplace of Jefferson Davis. Jefferson Davis was the only president of the Confederate States of America. The memorial is located in in Fairview, Kentucky, very near Pembroke. The site's focal point is a 107 metre (351 feet ) concrete obelisk that was built in 1973.
The monument is the tallest unreinforced concrete structure in the world. No steel was used to reinforce the concrete walls below its pyramidal top. As one pour was completed, large chunks of limestone were left projecting up to connect it to the next pour above. It is also the tallest concrete obelisk in the world and, as of this writing, is the fifth tallest monument in the United States
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Jefferson Davis Monument state park in Fairview KY
Jefferson Davis Monument state park in Fairview Kentucky
Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview Kentucky.
Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview Kentucky.
Fairview, Kentucky
Fairview is just a small town in Kentucky. But within it lies the Jefferson Davis State Historic Park and the Jefferson Davis Monument. Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, might be very controversial, but the monument is fantastic.
Standing at 351 feet tall, it was constructed between 1917 and 1924. The monument is the tallest unreinforced concrete structure in the world, and the 5th tallest monument in the United States. Yes, you can go to the top of the monument, but it is not always open and sometimes being remodeled or repaired.
Jefferson Davis monument in Fairview Kentucky. Civil war reenactment
Jefferson Davis monument in Fairview Kentucky. Civil war reenactment
Traveling on state route 68/80 going past the Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview Kentucky!! 2018.
Traveling on state route 68/80 going past the Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview Kentucky.
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Jefferson Davis Monument
Jefferson Davis Monument
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Fairview Kentucky, Todd County.
May 2010 The Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site is a Kentucky State Park preserving the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America. It is located in Fairview, Kentucky, in Todd County, 9 miles (14 km) east of Hopkinsville along U.S. Highway 68. The focal point of the site is a 351-foot (107.0 m)[2] tall concrete obelisk.
Jefferson Davis Memorial State Historic Site In Georgia
Jefferson Davis Memorial Georgia
We take a look around the spot where Jefferson Davis was captures and surrendered during the Civil War.
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A final visit to Jefferson Davis Memorial State Historic Site
Located in Irwinville, Georgia this will be my final visit to the State Historic Capture Site. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has announced the closure of this historical treasure effective June 14, 2009.
It is only by coincidence that I visited the historic site on June 3, 2009.
It was on this day in 1808, Jefferson Davis was born.