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Photograph of Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery
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Peewee Valley Confederate Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery is one mile from the old Kentucky Confederate Home site. The National Register of Historic Places lists the cemetery and separately an individual monument within it, the Confederate Memorial in Pewee Valley, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.”

Wikipedia article Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 48 National Register listings published here for Oldham County · listed in 1989 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Maple Ave., SE of jct. with Old Floydsburg Rd., Peewee Valley, 40056
  • When was it listed? November 1989
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Peewee Valley MPS
  • Census division. Pewee Valley
  • National Register reference number. 89001984 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Peewee Valley Confederate Cemetery: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avoca QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crestwood Mine UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crestwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Oldham County StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Oldham County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Confederate Memorial in Peewee Valleyunder 500 feet1997
Joseph H. Ellis House0.2 miles1989
Forrester-Duvall House0.6 miles1989
Dr. Thomas C. Peebles House0.6 miles1989
Ashwood Avenue Historic District0.7 miles1989
Building at 301 La Grange Road0.8 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001984 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Oldham CountyAll 48 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.