Scenic Adair Co., KY: The tree in Union Cemetery
2015-09-13 - Union Cemetery, 174 Milltown Church Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener
A lone tree dominated the skyline on September 12, 2015, amid markers ancient and new in this section of Union Cemetery seen from Milltown Church Road. Union Cemetery is one of Adair County's most historic, containing not only the remains of many who lost their lives in the Gradyville Flood of 1907, but also Gilmer Cemetery, which was relocated to Union Cemetery in 2006, when Holladay Place was under construction. An account of that can be read in the late Tony Harvey's story posted in ColumbiaMagazine.com on September 18, 2007, Gilmer Cemetery within Union Cemetery. Views from the cemetery are both spectacular and serene, owing in large part to being surround by some of the most lovingly tended - and valuable - property in Adair County. For more on the Gradyville Flood of June 7, 1907, see June 7, 2007: 100th Anniversary of Gradyville Flood which contains links to many of the stories in the ColumbiaMagazine.com history of tragedy. The cemetery is a great place to visit, walk, and to learn important Adair County history. - EW Comments | Permalink
2015-09-13 - Union Cemetery, 174 Milltown Church Road, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener
A lone tree dominated the skyline on September 12, 2015, amid markers ancient and new in this section of Union Cemetery seen from Milltown Church Road. Union Cemetery is one of Adair County's most historic, containing not only the remains of many who lost their lives in the Gradyville Flood of 1907, but also Gilmer Cemetery, which was relocated to Union Cemetery in 2006, when Holladay Place was under construction. An account of that can be read in the late Tony Harvey's story posted in ColumbiaMagazine.com on September 18, 2007, Gilmer Cemetery within Union Cemetery. Views from the cemetery are both spectacular and serene, owing in large part to being surround by some of the most lovingly tended - and valuable - property in Adair County. For more on the Gradyville Flood of June 7, 1907, see June 7, 2007: 100th Anniversary of Gradyville Flood which contains links to many of the stories in the ColumbiaMagazine.com history of tragedy. The cemetery is a great place to visit, walk, and to learn important Adair County history. - EW Comments | Permalink