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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BPU_u-s-treasurer_Sturgis-KY.html
Samuel Casey, 1788-1859, Treasurer of the United States, 1853-59, under Presidents Pierce and Buchanan. He resided 1811-1859 in Caseyville, three miles west. Elected clerk of Circuit and County Courts; later, 1830-32, member of the State Senate.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BNR_bell-mines_Sturgis-KY.html
John Bell, 1797-1869, of Tenn. owned mines two miles south of here. In 1860 he was nominated as candidate for President by the Constitutional Union Party. He campaigned to preserve the Union and carried Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia against Ab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BNQ_the-robert-e-lee-won-with-sturgis-coal_Sturgis-KY.html
Nearby coal fields supplied fuel to power steamboat Robert E. Lee in race against the Natchez, 1870. Greatest race in river history began in New Orleans and ended at St. Louis. Robert E. Lee won the championship of Mississippi River by 6 hours and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BD7_civil-war-action_Sturgis-KY.html
Every inhabitant of this pro-southern town was taken prisoner by the crew of a Union gunboat, July 26. 1862. All were released except 19 men who were taken to Evansville. Ind., as hostages to guarantee payment of $35,000 damages done by Rebel guer…