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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LPJ_emily-thomas-tubman-house_Frankfort-KY.html
(Side A)Summer home of Emily Thomas Tubman, philanthropist and emancipator. Born in Virginia in 1794, she was reared in Kentucky as ward of Henry Clay. She married Georgia merchant Richard Tubman in 1818. A widow after 1836, she gave to many Kentu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LPH_bibb-burnley-house_Frankfort-KY.html
Site of first house lived in on street, 1786, by John Instone, who came here from England to build boats for General Wilkinson. Wapping Street named by Instone for one of that name in London. John B. Bibb, Lieutenant, War of 1812, represented Loga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LPF_amos-kendall-1789-1869_Frankfort-KY.html
(Side A)This noted journalist-politician lived here. A Massachusetts native, he migrated to Kentucky in 1814 and spent one year with the family of Henry Clay as tutor. From 1816-28, Kendall resided in Frankfort as editor of the Argus of Western Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LPC_site-of-love-house_Frankfort-KY.html
First meeting of the Legislature, after Frankfort made capital, held here, 1793, when owned by Andrew Holmes. Built about 1786 by General James Wilkinson. Purchased in 1797 by Major Thomas Love and wife. It was for years an inn and center of polit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LGZ_frankfort-bridge-site_Frankfort-KY.html
Frankfort Bridge SiteIn 1810, the Frankfort Bridge Company was chartered to erect a bridge at this site. The bridge was completed here in 1816 at a cost of $25,000.00. In July, 1834 the bridge collapsed. A replacement bridge collapsed in December,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LF7_upper-benson-church_Frankfort-KY.html
The earliest Presbyterian Church in Franklin County was built in 1795 on a site one mile to the east; Organized by Thomas Paxton and located on land owned by him. Services held in it until 1848. Reverend Samuel Shannon was its first Minister. Mr. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LBW_kentucky-african-american-civil-war-memorial_Frankfort-KY.html
(North face)Erected byWoman's Relief CorpsNo. 8G.A.R.July 1924Monument CommissionE.T. Strauss, PresidentN.C. Coleman, SecretaryL.C. ReddingMary L. BrooksClara C. McWilliamsSusan ButcherM.B. McCarySallie HandyKate RichardsonIn Memory ofThe Colored …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LB3_kentuckys-united-states-colored-troops_Frankfort-KY.html
Officially, 23,703 African Americans in Kentucky responded to the call to arms by President Lincoln and Frederick Douglass to join the ranks of the newly organized United States Colored Troops. Units were organized with men from across the Commonw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L6D_vest-lindsey-house_Frankfort-KY.html
Erected before 1820, this house is linked to several prominent men. It was childhood home of George Graham Vest, a famous orator, debater, and three-term senator from Missouri; member CSA Congress 3 years. Also home of Daniel W. Lindsey, who, duri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L6C_garden-hall_Frankfort-KY.html
This Georgian home was built by Graham Vreeland in 1913. He was founder, publisher, and editor of the Frankfort News, which later became the State Journal. The architect was D. X. Murphy, who designed the grandstand and twin spires at Churchill Do…