North Middletown Cultural Heritage Center, Inc.

06/06/2023

Things are looking up for our building! Keep us in your prayers!

06/15/2018

The NMCHC is still owned by the NMBHC. We've had some people inquiring about it and wanted folks to know that although we aren't currently active doesn't mean the property and contents of the property aren't still owned by the final remaining officers.

08/20/2015

Our city.

We are a small rural community located in Bourbon County, Kentucky. We are near the city of Lexington - and also in the center of the Horse Capital of The World.

08/20/2015

The Prescott Cemetery needs your help, be it volunteering your time to mow, w**d eat or rake, or you monetary donation so that we can pay for help doing so. Every year the donations are smaller and slimmer as a whole (no disrespect to the lovely people who DO donate!) and we take in less and less. If you can help in any way, please let us know. Thank you for taking the time to read about our situation.

05/25/2015

Memorial Day 2015 has come and gone, and we would like to thank all of those who decorated, donated and remembered their service members and ancestors over the weekend at the cemetery. We would love to give a big shout out to the Frye/Conner Reunion for their donation, as well as Nancy Kenney, George & Lucy Jackson, Marge Strawder, Betty Mae Black, Albert Wess, Sr. The Dorothy Royce Family, Hubert Mooney, George and Becky Hutchison, Bill Conner, Joe Williams, Jr., Karen Cassell, the Anita Robinson family and the Fitch family.

Donations are still welcome and needed. If you would like to donate to the care of the Prescott Cemetery, you can do so any time of year!

05/24/2014

We would like to welcome everyone to visit the Prescott Cemetery in North Middletown to honor the veterans and other family members and people who were instrumental in this community and county. We have veterans from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and all branches of service. Take a few moments over your 3 day weekend to pay your respects, teach your children about their history, or just relax and have a laugh or two with the volunteers who strive each and every year to make this a fantastic resting place for our departed.

12/31/2013

I didn't know this.. Did you? Have you ever been in a cemetery and saw coins laying on a tombstone? There is actually a reason behind it.


COINS LEFT ON TOMBSTONES

While visiting some cemeteries you may notice that headstones marking certain graves have coins on them, left by previous visitors to the grave.

These coins have distinct meanings when left on the headstones of those who gave their life while serving in America's military, and these meanings vary depending on the denomination of coin.

A coin left on a headstone or at the grave site is meant as a message to the deceased soldier's family that someone else has visited the grave to pay respect. Leaving a penny at the grave means simply that you visited.

A nickel indicates that you and the deceased trained at boot camp together, while a dime means you served with him in some capacity. By leaving a quarter at the grave, you are telling the family that you were with the solider when he was killed.

According to tradition, the money left at graves in national cemeteries and state veterans cemeteries is eventually collected, and the funds are put toward maintaining the cemetery or paying burial costs for indigent veterans.

In the US, this practice became common during the Vietnam war, due to the political divide in the country over the war; leaving a coin was seen as a more practical way to communicate that you had visited the grave than contacting the soldier's family, which could devolve into an uncomfortable argument over politics relating to the war.

Some Vietnam veterans would leave coins as a "down payment" to buy their fallen comrades a beer or play a hand of cards when they would finally be reunited.

The tradition of leaving coins on the headstones of military men and women can be traced to as far back as the Roman Empire.

05/28/2013

Thank you to the donors, big and small, whose contributions to the NMCHC help keep the cemetery cared for and attractive:

George & Becky Hutchinson
Thomas & Geraldine Downey Jr.
George & Sarah Frazen
Sudie Mae Williams
George & Lucy Jackson
Carol "Mickey" Turner
Pat Holland
Bobby (Fields) Mack
Royce Family
David Rogers
Albert Wess Sr.
Roberta & Herman Hutsell
Nancy Kenney
Betty Mae Black
Bud and Michelle Butler
Reese Weathers
James Robinson
Newell Maxwell
Frances & Leon Buckner
Bobbylee Greenhill
Karen Cassell
John C Kenney Jr.
Lucinda Butler
James Black, Jr.

05/28/2013

Thank you to the volunteers, few but mighty, who helped with the cemetery this weekend: first the committee that serves year round:
Nancy Kenney, Betty Mae Black and Bud and Michelle Butler.

We would also like to thank Bobbylee Greenhill of Greenhill Contracting, the Ed Buhler Family, Michael Butler and Carl Williams.

05/26/2013

05/19/2013

Memorial Day is nearly here! Don't forget to visit the historic Prescott Cemetery. We need your help and donations to care for the grounds and sponsors to help mark unmarked graves. The cemetery will be open Saturday, Sunday and Monday of Memorial Day weekend.