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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L19_buena-vista-todd-house_Frankfort-KY.html
(Front)Buena VistaOne-half mile south is the site of two-story frame house best known as the summer residence of Robert S. Todd (1791-1849), father of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln. The large family took refuge here from the heat and cholera of sum…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L18_lexington-and-ohio-railroad_Frankfort-KY.html
Site of the first railroad west of the Alleghenies. Built 1833-1834. Flat iron rails were pinned to quarried limestone blocks. The twenty-three mile run between Lexington and Frankfort required four hours.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L17_site-of-winnie-a-scott-hospital_Frankfort-KY.html
The Women's Club Hospital Company, with community support, established a hospital here on December 26, 1915. It was named for Winnie A. Scott, a local teacher instrumental in its founding. The facility was the only Frankfort hospital serving Afric…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L0K_ruth-hanly-booe-1891-1973_Frankfort-KY.html
(Front) In 1919, friends Ruth Hanly and Rebecca Gooch left teaching to found Rebecca-Ruth Candy. Operating out of the barroom of the Frankfort Hotel, closed due to Prohibition, the two were successful entrepreneurs before women gained the right…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L0F_early-families-here-early-south-frankfort_Frankfort-KY.html
Early Families HereOwners whose families lived in the original house here - J.W. Denny, State Attorney General; Thomas Loughborough and son Judge Preston Loughborough, Chief U.S. Postal Inspector; Sally S. Jouett, widow of Colonel William R. Jouet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L0D_frankfort-state-hospital-and-school-cemetery_Frankfort-KY.html
FrontIn 1860, Governor Magoffin signed a bill establishing the Kentucky Institution for the Education and Training of Feeble-Minded Children. In the 1940s, the name changed to the Kentucky Training Home. Adults were admitted and housed with the ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16AV_welcome-to-kentuckys-capitol-and-capital_Frankfort-KY.html
(panel A)WelcometoKentucky's CapitolThe Kentucky Capitol BuildingandCapitalFrankfort - Kentucky's Capital City(panel B)Welcome to Kentucky's Capitol Construction of the Capitol began in 1905. Kentucky state government has built four capitols in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16AS_gone-but-not-forgotten-frankforts-craw_Frankfort-KY.html
The Capitol Plaza complex, a twenty-two-acre government, business, and civic mall adjacent to the Kentucky River covers an area of North Frankfort once referred to as the "Craw" or the "Bottom." Following the Civil War an integrated, working-class…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16AP_locks-and-dams_Frankfort-KY.html
Kentucky River Lock and Dam Four are about half a mile north of Kentucky River View Park. They are part of a system of fourteen locks and dams built on the river between the 1830s and 1917. Both state and federal governments contributed to the pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16AO_franks-ford-fishtrap-island-and-craw_Frankfort-KY.html
Frankfort takes its name-many people believe-from an episode that took place near here during the frontier era. A group of explorers camping near the mouth of Benson Creek was attacked by Indians. One member of the group, Stephen Frank, was killed…
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