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In 1859 he won his most important competition, that for the Wallace Monument in Stirling, which was completed in 1869. This went Â£5000 over budget which resulted in the bankruptcy of the contractor and Rochead never receiving his fee.
It is the tallest poured in place concrete obelisk in the world. The monument is to Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) the first and only president of the Confederacy. The Jefferson Davis Monument State Shrine became a part of the Kentucky State Park System on June 7, 1927. Ironically, fellow Kentuckian and Civil War president, Abraham Lincoln was born less than 100 miles away in Hodgenville.