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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25BK_fort-jefferson-memorial-cross-at-the-confluence_Wickliffe-KY.html
The story of the cross at Wickliffe began in 1937 when a few members of a community choir, spearheaded by Mrs. Noah Geveden, erected a small wooden cross on a hill at the Ancient Buried City (now known as Wickliffe Mounds Research Center) in Wickl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Z3_welcome-to-wickliffe-mounds_Wickliffe-KY.html
Nearly one thousand years ago, this village was home for Native Americans of the prehistoric Mississippian culture. Peaceful farmers, these mound building Indians lived throughout the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. Exhibits at Wicklffe Mounds…
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Excavations have shown that building stood on several earlier levels of this mound. We do not know how big those buildings were.This structure is approximately the size of the posthole pattern in the architecture building (Mound B)
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13Z0_burial-mound_Wickliffe-KY.html
Native American Indian of the Mississippian culture were buried in this cemetery mound sometime in the A.D. 1200s. First excavated in 1932 by owner Col. Fain King, the mound was referred to as "Mound C". A building was constructed over the exposed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13YZ_king-mounds_Wickliffe-KY.html
Site of an ancient religious and commercial center of the Mound Builder. Approximately one thousand years old, situated on the only high ground at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Tombs, temples, altars, jewels, dwellings, tools,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC8I_fort-jefferson-site-indian-massacre_Wickliffe-KY.html
(North Side):Fort Jefferson SiteBuilt in 1780 by George Rogers Clark as part of impressive plan of settlement, conceived by Gov. Patrick Henry of Virginia, later pursued by and named for Gov. Thomas Jefferson. The fort was to protect US claim to i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC6B_the-prince-of-the-french-explorers_Wickliffe-KY.html
(North Side):The Prince of the French ExplorersCommissioned by Louis XIV of France, the Sieur Robert de LaSalle, sweeping down the Mississippi with his flotilla of canoes, stopped in 1682 at this place, in his quest for the mouth of the Mississipp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC6A_county-named-1842_Wickliffe-KY.html
For Capt. Bland Ballard, 1759-1853. Born in Va. Came to Ky. in 1779. Devoted life protecting frontier. Scout for George Rogers Clark's Ohio expedition, 1780. '82; Wabash campaign 1786. In the battles of Fallen Timbers, 1793; Tippecanoe, 1811; Rive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC68_lewis-clark-at-old-fort-jefferson_Wickliffe-KY.html
Long before Lewis and Clark stopped near Wickliffe in western Kentucky on their outbound trip to the west, Fort Jefferson had been built in 1780-81 by George Rogers Clark during the Revolutionary War as an outpost against British-led Indian attack…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC65_lewis-and-clark-in-kentucky-fort-jefferson_Wickliffe-KY.html
(North Side):Lewis and Clark in Kentucky Fort JeffersonLewis and Clark and a party of eight men visited the site of Fort Jefferson on Nov. 18, 1803, while on their epic 1803-1806 journey to the Pacific. Fort est. in 1780 by Clark's brother, George…