Martyrs Monument in Midway

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Martyrs Monument in Midway, located in Midway City Cemetery outside Midway, Kentucky, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. It honors four Confederate prisoners who were killed due to the standing order of Union General over Kentucky Stephen G.”
Wikipedia article Martyrs Monument in Midway, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 80 National Register listings published here for Woodford County · listed in 1997 · category: Object · built in 1890.

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 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. City Cemetery. SW of jct. of Louis & Nashville RR tracks, an US 62, Midway, 40347
When was it listed? July 1997
Category. object
Also known as. Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
Census division. Midway
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 97000663 - 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.

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	$50,000	Trees down, many houses damaged with one or two roofs blown off reported by Woodford County police.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Large trees snapped and were uprooted in the Midway cemetery.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	A tree was blocking Georgetown Road and Mckinney Avenue.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Trees were reported down in Midway.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Multiple trees were reported down in different areas of Midway.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	The county emergency manager reported that many trees were downed in Woodford County, with a concentration along Old Frankfort Pike and Midway Road.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	The Woodford County Emergency Manager reported several trees blocking State Highway 62 near Midway. Power was out to much of Midway.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Two trees were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Trees were blown down.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	Trees were down, one was blocking a road. Report from Woodford County Dispatch.
March 2012	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed
November 2002	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed
November 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodford 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Midway Historic District	0.5 miles	1978
Pinkerton Hall	0.8 miles	1974
Elkwood	1.2 miles	1994
John Graham House	1.3 miles	1978
Richard Cole Homestead	1.5 miles	1994
E. W. Taylor House	1.6 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000663 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Woodford County	All 80 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.