Fairview, Kentucky

larry_cockerham · #1 05-21-2006, 09:50 AM

For those of you who haven't been, I suggest a visit to the Sam Davis monument. 351 foot tall obelisk patterned after George Washington's. (Washington's is 555 feet, but he's in a bigger town.) Very beautiful farm county surrounds this state monument located at the birthplace of the Confederate president. Just east of Pennyrile Parkway between Hopkinsville, KY and Evansville, IN. Nice, though sparsely appointed museum. Elevator to the top of the monument. Not much action in the town, but that's what causes the charm.

scone · #2 05-23-2006, 10:25 AM

Larry,
I believe you are reffering to the Jefferson Davis Monument not the the Sam Davis one : )

Steven

larry_cockerham · #3 05-23-2006, 11:49 AM

OOOOOOPS! As usual, your are quite correct Steven. Sam's monument is in Nashville. All them Davis boys look alike in the early morning. Big difference in the monuments, however. Thanks for catching one of my normal errors!

lrd89 · #4 05-24-2006, 07:33 PM

I'll have to look that up next time I'm down that way. I hope maybe to go down to Lincoln State Park in SW Indiana this summer and might make the trip down there to see that. By the way Lincoln State Park and adjacent Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserve Lincoln's childhood home and the burial place of Nancy Hanks Lincoln.

larry_cockerham · #5 05-24-2006, 09:05 PM

The JEFFERSON Davis mounument is only about an hour south of Evansville on a very good road. Worth a one-time visit.

william42 · #6 05-24-2006, 11:02 PM

Larry, I didn't know it was that close. I looked it up on mapquest, and it's just a few miles east of Hopkinsville on hwy 68. Never knew it was there. I've only been by it like...a hundred times, since the 1960's, but don't remember ever seeing a sign for it on the Pennyrile. Thanks for the heads up on what I should have known about all along.

Terry

larry_cockerham · #7 05-25-2006, 02:06 PM

On our recent trip, our leader told a story of an encounter with the folks at the Kentucky visitor center on I-24 near the Tennessee state line. They didn't, a few months ago, know about the monument either! Someone in tourism ain't earning their pay? There is an old Baptist Church on the property which supposedly is built on the foundation for the house where Davis was born. I can't confirm that, but it is believable.