Kentucky Stonehenge

A ring of upright sandstone slabs stands on a private estate in Munfordville, Kentucky, built by a former mayor and open to anyone who wants to walk among the stones. Kentucky Stonehenge was created by Chester Fryer, a former Munfordville mayor with a longtime interest in rocks, according to WBKO in 2026. The station reports that he erected it in 2000 using large sandstone stones collected from area farms. Islands magazine, in January 2025, says he began in 2000 in his backyard and finished in 2005 after about five years of work. The local tourism office says Fryer searched about 1,000 acres of nearby Hatcher Valley for rocks.

It is not an exact copy of the English monument. WBKO describes a central Horseshoe Circle of five trilithons, pairs of standing stones capped by a horizontal stone, inside an outer Sarsen Circle about 108 feet wide, with 16 standing stones placed to match compass points. The alignments follow the rising sun at the summer and winter solstices. According to the current property owner's materials quoted by WBKO, the site has 30 upright stones and five horizontal ones, averaging about 10 feet long.