It has been a very long, long time since I visited this spot in Western Kentucky. I remember going with the family on picnics to the spot in Fairview and going up into the monument to look out over the countryside. For a commemoration of the President of the Confederacy, there really isn't much to it. Unfortunately, Jefferson Davis donated the spot where the house was located to a local Baptist church so the actual cabin where he was born is no longer there. Of course, the cabin inside the monument to Abraham Lincoln's birthplace in Hodgenville is not really the actual cabin where he was born, just one that supposedly looked like the actual cabin.
But I have fond memories of driving through the countryside to Fairview and coming upon the tall obelisk, much like the Washington Monument, only smaller, alongside the road. There were picnic areas and a gift shop and we seemed to eat Kentucky Fried chicken and enjoy the warmth of the Summer. Playing with our cousins in the grass. Climbing up the stairs to the obelisk.
A little further down the road was the Shaker community, then Bowling Green. It has been a long time. I need to make another trip.
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