The Confederate Memorial State Historic Site is a state-owned property occupying approximately 135 acres (55 ha) near Higginsville, Missouri.

From 1891 to 1950, the site was used as an old soldiers' home for veterans of the Confederate States Army after the American Civil War.

In addition to the cemetery and historic structures, the grounds also contain trails, picnic sites, and fishing ponds.

After the end of the American Civil War in Missouri, veterans of the Confederate States Army faced hard times.

Confederate veterans, some of whom had difficulty accessing medical treatment and who had been disenfranchised from voting, met throughout the state periodically after the war.

At one such meeting in Higginsville in 1889, the idea of creating an old soldiers' home to care for aging Confederate veterans was discussed.

Beginning in 1956, parts of the site were also used for storage by a local school, and the chapel was technically under the administration of the Missouri Department of Mental Health until 1977.

The journalist Seth Boester, writing for the Columbia Missourian, has speculated that this is because the site's historic usage as a retirement home makes it less controversial.

A monument modeled after the Lion of Lucerne is located within the cemetery; it was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1906 and bears the inscription "In Memoriam  OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD".