[2] Mayfield during the Civil War was very supportive of the Confederate States of America.

[2] Mayfield's United Daughters of the Confederacy obtained the fountain in 1917 from the McNeal Marble Company in Marietta, Georgia at the cost of $1,650.

The fountain, which no longer emits water, is a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) obelisk with wings that double as benches.

The center obelisk has three different Confederate flags in copper relief on its top.

[2][4] On July 17, 1997, it was 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.