Athens Civil War Memorial
N 33° 57.464 W 083° 22.532
17S E 280492 N 3760012
Large monument on Broad Street in Downtown Athens. Read the long description for more information.
Waymark Code: WMNE9
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 08/26/2006
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On a traffic island across from the UGA Arch, is the Clarke County Confederate Memorial, one of the oldest monuments in the state. Fund-raising was begun by Ladies Memorial Association president, Mrs. Laura Cobb Rutherford in 1866, and after raising the needed $4,444.44, the marble shaft totalling 32 feet in height and resembling a church spire with a finial on a stepped base of Elbert County granite, was unveiled in June 1872. It is the first of the large general county monuments in the state. Inscribed on the monument are the names of the Clarke County dead with an inscription by the Rev. A.A. Lipscomb, chancellor of the University of Georgia, 1860-74.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 06/01/1872
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Ladies Memorial Association
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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