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The Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield are historical monuments that represent the entrance to Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky. The monuments were the second monument in Mayfield the United Daughters of the Confederacy established, the first being the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield in downtown Mayfield. The Gates were the third choice for monuments, chosen mostly due to their relative low cost. The UDC meant for them to not only be a monument to those residents of Graves county who served the Confederate States of America, but were also intended to be a civic improvement.

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  • The Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield are historical monuments that represent the entrance to Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky. The monuments were the second monument in Mayfield the United Daughters of the Confederacy established, the first being the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield in downtown Mayfield. The Gates were the third choice for monuments, chosen mostly due to their relative low cost. The UDC meant for them to not only be a monument to those residents of Graves county who served the Confederate States of America, but were also intended to be a civic improvement.
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  • The Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield are historical monuments that represent the entrance to Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky. The monuments were the second monument in Mayfield the United Daughters of the Confederacy established, the first being the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield in downtown Mayfield. The Gates were the third choice for monuments, chosen mostly due to their relative low cost. The UDC meant for them to not only be a monument to those residents of Graves county who served the Confederate States of America, but were also intended to be a civic improvement. The monuments are three pairs of stuccoed poured concrete gateposts, six in total. When closed. the main pair's gate says "The United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial". Only the main pair have bronze plaques. The main pair are each two feet wide and ten feet tall, with 27 feet between them. The center pair has no road between them; they are three feet wide, ten feet tall, and 285 feet away from the main gates. The third set are 330 feet away from the center gates, two feet wide and ten feet tall. On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. One other monument on the list, the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield, is nearby in downtown Mayfield; the only other one in Graves County is the Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley. Also in Maplewood Cemetery is the Wooldridge Monuments, also on the National Register. The only other gateway on the list is the Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman.
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