The gates were the third choice for monuments, chosen mostly due to their relatively low cost.

The UDC intended them to not only be a monument to the residents of Graves County who served the Confederate States of America, but also a civic improvement.

[2] The monuments are three pairs of stuccoed poured concrete gateposts, six in total, each.

the main pair's gates read "The United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial".

[3][4] On July 17, 1997, the posts and gates were one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.