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Special Event
Event
History at Sunset: City of Refuge: Home for Colored Refugees and the End of the Civil War
Fee:
Free.Location:
Camp Nelson National Monument Address: 6614 Danville Loop 2 Road Nicholasville, KY 40356 Meet NPS staff at the main park Visitor Center at 6:45 pm. Participants will then follow an NPS caravan from the parking lot southwest across US-27 to the Home for Colored Refugees (Fee Church).Dates & Times
Date:
Saturday, July 26, 2025
Time:
7:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour and 30 minutes
Type of Event
Talk
Walk
Description
The 160th Anniversary of Camp Nelson concludes with a special tour in the Hall Community, former site of the Home for Colored Refugees at Camp Nelson during the Civil War. NPS staff and Dr. W. Stephen McBride will discuss the Home's development in early 1865 and its dramatic and heartbreaking closure beginning in August 1865, and the living legacy of the Black experience at Camp Nelson today.
Meet NPS staff at the main park Visitor Center at 6:45 pm. Participants will then follow an NPS caravan from the parking lot southwest across US-27 to the Home for Colored Refugees (Fee Church).