Lebanon National Cemetery: Difference between revisions

	Lebanon National Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	File:VIEW OF PERIMETER WALL AND HEADSTONES WITH LODGE AND FLAGPOLE IN BACKGROUND. VIEW TO NORTHEAST. - Lebanon National Cemetery, 20 Highway 208; , Lebanon, Marion County, KY HALS KY-3-18.tif Lebanon National Cemetery in 2004
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Location	On Kentucky Highway 208 about one mile southeast of Lebanon, Kentucky
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Area	2.8 acres (1.1 ha)
Built	1863
NRHP reference No.	[[[:Template:NRHP Focus]] 75000801]
Added to NRHP	June 05, 1975

Revision as of 14:53, 13 August 2024

Lebanon National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located just outside the city of Lebanon in Marion County, Kentucky.^{[citation needed]} Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 14.8 acres (6.0 ha) and as of the end of 2005 it had 4,699 interments. It is administered by the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery.

History

First established in 1862 as a cemetery for nearby Camp Crittenden, the Union supply depot in Lebanon, and the military hospitals in the area. It was designated a National Cemetery in 1867. Two donations of land in the 1980s expanded the cemetery to its current size.

A 2.8 acres (1.1 ha) portion of the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, as Lebanon National Cemetery.^[1]

Numerous Union soldiers who died in the Battle of Perryville are interred there.^[2]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP.
↑ Walter F. Blake (February 13, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lebanon National Cemetery". National Park Service. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/75000801_text. Retrieved January 5, 2018. With eight photos.

External links

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National Cemetery Administration
Lebanon National Cemetery
Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. KY-3, "Lebanon National Cemetery, Lebanon, Marion, KY"
[[[:Template:GNIS URL]] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lebanon National Cemetery]
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[nris-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP.

[nrhpdoc-2] Walter F. Blake (February 13, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lebanon National Cemetery". National Park Service. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/75000801_text. Retrieved January 5, 2018. With eight photos.

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