Eighteen life-size statues -- dubbed "the strange procession that never moves" -- are grouped around the tomb of Colonel Henry Wooldridge, the Mayfield, Kentucky horse trader who commissioned them and died in 1899. A number of Wooldridge men and women and stare with stony resolve toward the eastern plots of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Cemetery.
Wooldridge also included sculptures of a fox, a deer, his horse, and his favorite dogs, Tow Head and Bob.
The Colonel is the only person actually entombed there. A hurricane fence foils casual vandalism and some photo opportunities.
March 2009: A freak ice storm felled a tree into the Wooldridge Monument, knocking off heads, sending stone bodies flying, and in general causing considerable damage. The town intends to fully restore the monument, but it may take some time....
