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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29CL_sarah-bush-johnston-lincoln_Elizabethtown-KY.html
A memorial to the most famous step-mother in American History. This cabin is a close replica of one lived in by local woman Sarah Bush Johnston and her three children in the early 1800's.
Sarah married Thomas Lincoln on Dec. 2, 1819, in Elizabe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM297I_commodore-joshua-barney-first-brick-house_Elizabethtown-KY.html
(side 1 - Commodore Joshua Barney)
Famous American privateer and naval hero in War of 1812. Barney owned many acres of land in Hardin CO. A friend of George Washington, John Paul Jones and Napoleon Bonaparte. His greatest desire was to bring his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGPF_the-cannonball_Elizabethtown-KY.html
Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Raiders arrived in Elizabethtown on December 27, 1862, appearing on the brow of the hill that is now the City Cemetery. The main objective of the Christmas Raid was to burn two huge Louisville and Nashville Railroad trestle…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGPC_make-a-street-fight-out-of-it_Elizabethtown-KY.html
In December 1862, Gen. John Hunt Morgan was sent by the Confederate command to shut down the L&N Railroad, thereby cutting off one of the Union's major supply lines. Morgan's target was one of the railroad's most vulnerable points, the trestles at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOY_general-custer-here_Elizabethtown-KY.html
Cavalry and infantry battalions under Gen. George Custer, assigned here, 1871-1873, to suppress Ku Klux Klan and carpetbaggers, to break up illicit distilleries. Those gangs becoming inactive, he was sent to Chicago to maintain order after big fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOX_lincoln-haycraft-memorial-bridge_Elizabethtown-KY.html
Here along Severn's Valley Creek, Samuel Haycraft, Sr. built mill, raceway in 1796. Thomas Lincoln, father of Pres. Lincoln, employed in building it, received his first monetary wages when about 21 years of age. Abraham Lincoln, age 7, with his fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOW_elizabethtown-battle_Elizabethtown-KY.html
Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan on his second raid into Kentucky, with 3,900 men, was met by 652 Union troops under Lt. Col. H.S. Smith, Dec. 27, 1862. Object of raid was destruction of L & N R.R. main artery for U.S.A. troop movement south. Mor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOV_three-forts_Elizabethtown-KY.html
Elizabethtown began in 1780, when three forts were built by Samuel Haycraft, Sr., Col. Andrew Hynes and Capt. Thomas Helm for common defense against Indians. The forts were one mile apart, the only settlements between falls of Ohio and Green River…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOS_morgans-second-raid_Elizabethtown-KY.html
North of here, Morgan's Raiders destroyed two of the most important L & N R.R. trestles Dec. 28, 1862, rendering line impassable for two months. Circling this area, they returned to Tenn. on Jan, 2, 1863. In eleven days they destroyed $2,000,000 i…