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.
August 2010: Tipster Wayne Youngblood writes that a government grant and match restored the site in 2010 with a contract to a New Jersey restoration firm. 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....
