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Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site, Perryville, KY

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Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site

A Kentucky state historic site covering a battlefield park with monuments, cannons, and an interpretive museum.

Perryville, KY

About Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site

This roughly 745-acre park near Perryville, Kentucky, protects ground tied to a major Civil War battle. Monuments, interpretive signs, and cannons mark key moments of the fighting. A museum near the site tells the story and is near the area where many Confederate dead from the battle were buried. The land has been added to over time through purchases by state and conservation groups, and it became part of the Kentucky State Park System in 1936.

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