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Title
Jeffersonville Cemetery Shaft (Jefferson, Virginia)
Description
The place where the Jefferson Cemetery Shaft stands today began as a temporary repository for the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers during the war. The site was formally given commemoration in 1892 by the Brown-Harman Camp of Confederate Veterans. Later at an unknown date, the site was given to the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and it is this organization that remains associated with the monument. It is unknown as to when the shaft monument was formally erected as well as the cost, artist, and creator. The site has no official boundaries as it remains unknown the total number of Confederate soldiers buried at the location. Today, the Jeffersonville community describes the site as the County's most sacred shrine and monument.
Contributor
Emily Amarelo
Type
Site
Identifier
2043
Extent
m x m x m
Spatial Coverage
current,37.1196206,-81.5117586;
Europeana
Country
United States
Europeana Data Provider
Jeffersonville Cemetery Shaft
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Jeffersonville_Cemetery_Shaft
Erected by
the Brown-Harman Camp of Confederate Veterans
Funded by
Jeffersonville Community
Run by
The United Daughters of the Confederacy
Material
bronze and fieldstone
Inscription
To the Memory of Our Confederate Dead 1861-1865 "Love Makes Memory Eternal
State
Virginia
County
Tazewell
Affiliation
Confederate
City
Jefferson