The William F. Perry Monument is an historical gravestone located at Fairview Cemetery in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It is an oversized limestone headstone.

It marks the grave of Confederate general William F. Perry of the Army of Northern Virginia, who would after the war serve on the faculty of Ogden College in Bowling Green, which is now Western Kentucky University. It was placed by his students at the college after he died on December 7, 1901.

William F. Perry Monument

On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one Civil War monuments in Kentucky added to the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. One other monument on the list, the Confederate Monument of Bowling Green, is nearby in Fairview Cemetery.

William F. Perry Monument

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Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS

National Register of Historic Places in Bowling Green, Kentucky

Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Kentucky

1901 sculptures

1901 establishments in Kentucky

William F. Perry Monument