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Docktown
Confederate Memorial Forest and Boyd Gap
U. S. Highway 64, Ducktown
Directions: I-75 Exit 20. Travel Hwy 64 towards Cleveland. Travel 6.3 miles. Take the Hwy 64 East ramp Ocoee . Travel approximately 9 miles. Boyd Gap overlook is approximately 0.3 miles past the Ocoee Whitewater Center. The Confederate Memorial forest sign is approximately 0.5 miles past the Ocoee Whitewater Center.
This approximately 103-acre property began in 1942 as an innovative partnership between the Tennessee Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Cherokee National Forest to commemorate Confederate soldiers and to enhance land conservation in the Ducktown area. The reclamation project involved the planting of tens of thousands of trees as a living memorial to 115,000 Tennesseans who fought for the Confederacy. A rededication ceremony of the cemetery took place in 2007.
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