News Release

Camp Nelson National Monument Announces New Summer Hours and May Calendar

The Camp Nelson National Monument Visitor Center and neighboring Barracks.

NPS/ Ava Goetz

News Release Date: May 5, 2024

Contact: Steve T. Phan, 859-382-6902

NICHOLASVILLE, KY – The National Park Service (NPS) announces that the visitor center, museum, and barracks building at Camp Nelson National Monument will be open 7-days a week starting on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2024. The buildings are open 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The grounds remain open sunrise to sunset.

The May Calendar features the African American Genealogy Group of Kentucky.
 

Saturday, May 18, 2024 (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)

Following the Paths of the Civil War’s Refugees from Slavery

Dr. Amy Murrell Taylor, T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History at the University of Kentucky, will describe the work involved in researching the American Civil War’s slavery history, especially its collapse in a refugee crisis that unfolded across the South. The hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who fled slavery and sought refuge behind the lines of the U.S. Army guaranteed the destruction of the institution once and for all. But it is only now, over 150 years later, that their experience is becoming visible, and their names and identities known at places like Camp Nelson.

The program will be hosted in the Barracks Building at Camp Nelson National Monument and is free and open to the public. The African American Genealogy Group is hosting the program on Zoom. Guests must register in advance here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0oc-6qrj8qHtWMmXux3LDJUKuTBslxVd_5

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Camp Nelson National Monument, the 418^th unit of the National Park Service, is located six miles south of Nicholasville, KY on Highway 27 and directly north of the Camp Nelson National Cemetery.

For more information, visit the park's website at: www.nps.gov/cane or the park’s Facebook page at https:www.facebook.com/CampNelsonNPS.