United States / Mayfield, KY

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Kentucky Historical Marker #0732

Secession Abandoned. In May, 1861, delegates of seven Kentucky and twenty Tennessee westernmost counties, the Jackson Purchase, met in Mayfield. Belief in Southern cause, dissatisfaction with Kentucky adherence to Union, and Tennessee delay joining South, caused convention vote to secede and form a Confederate state. With Tennessee's vote to secede, June 8, 1861, proposal abandoned.

Mayfield, Courthouse lawn, US 45, KY 80, Mayfield, KY, United States