Portal:Kentucky/Did you know.../9
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- ... that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument (pictured)?
- ... that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War?
- ... that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
- ... that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
- ... that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky?
- ... that Kentucky's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County, but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination?

