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The Peaslee Sphinx

Louisville, KY

Installed in 1907, this 14-foot granite sphinx guards the Peaslee family plot in Cave Hill Cemetery. Its Egyptian styling was unusually exotic for Kentucky cemetery art at the time and remains one of the cemetery's most conspicuous monuments.

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Source: Roadside America

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