History at Sunset: Home for Colored Refugees and the End of the Civil War

Join the National Park Service (NPS) at the 4th Annual History at Sunset series at Camp Nelson National Monument! The 2025 Lineup features special programs which mark the 160th Anniversary of Camp Nelson in 1865. The series features 3 programs (May-July) starting at 7:00 pm at the park and are free and open to the public.

Saturday, July 26th: City of Refuge: Home for Colored Refugees and the End of the Civil War.

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 African American 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).

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You may also like the following events from Camp Nelson National Monument:

• This Friday, 25th July, 07:00 pm, History at Sunset: Camp Nelson Then & Now Photography Tour in Nicholasville
• This Saturday, 26th July, 10:00 am, 160th Anniversary of Camp Nelson: A Portal into the Past: Camp Nelson and Photography in Nicholasville
• Next month, 9th August, 11:00 am, Geology Walking Tour in Nicholasville

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