Established in 1865, the historic Green Hill Cemetery provides citizens of Frankfort with a unique link to their community’s African American Civil War heritage. One of its most prominent features is an impressive ten-foot-tall limestone monument bearing the names of 142 veterans of Kentucky’s United States Colored Troops (USCT) from Frankfort and the surrounding counties of central Kentucky – dedicated on July 4, 1924 by the Women’s Relief Corps, an affiliate of the local African American Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union Army veteran’s organization.