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The Confederate Mothers Memorial is a public park at Skyline Drive and West 19th Street in
Russellville, Arkansas Russellville is the county seat of and the largest city in Pope County, Arkansas, United States, with a 2022 estimated population of 29,133. It is home to Arkansas Tech University. Arkansas Nuclear One, Arkansas' only nuclear power plant is nea ...
. The park covers about , most of which is unimproved woodlands. Near the junction of the two roads is a gravel parking lot, in which are three stone monuments, each one placed by a different Confederate veterans or memorial organization, with inscriptions honoring the mothers of the
Confederacy A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...
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History

Land for the park was donated in 1921 to the
United Daughters of the Confederacy The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, a ...
, and the monuments were dedicated that year. Plans to further develop the park with other amenities have never been realized. It is believed to be the only Confederate memorial of its type in the state. The park was listed on the
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in 1996.


Pine Knob Mountain Bike Park

In 2022 and 2022, a mountain bike park was built—under the authority of the City of Russellville Parks and Recreation Department—within Confederate Mothers Memorial Park to improve an unmaintained park and provide community access to mountain bike trails.


See also

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List of Confederate monuments and memorials A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Pope County, Arkansas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pope County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pope County, Arkansa ...


References

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