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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L2E_camp-wildcat-and-the-wilderness-road_East-Bernstadt-KY.html
When European colonists began to explore westward from Virginia, they saw this as a wild and untamed land. Their settlements in the east provided them with great comfort and safety compared to what they encountered here. To them, this was a wilder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L26_camp-wildcat_East-Bernstadt-KY.html
Home of the original Confederate encampment October 1861
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L25_hoosier-knob_East-Bernstadt-KY.html
(Marker #1) The Navy In The Mountains Needing men with military training and political connections to the region, President Lincoln called upon two Navy officers to help organize the war effort in eastern Kentucky. William "Bull" …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L24_infantry-ridge_East-Bernstadt-KY.html
(Marker #1) Nerve Center for the Union Army The area around you and along the trail was the headquarters camp of one of the senior Union commanders at Camp Wildcat, Colonel Theophilus T. Garrard. Theophilus Garrard A Kentucky Soldier Garr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L1R_battle-of-camp-wildcat_East-Bernstadt-KY.html
(Marker #1) Battle of Camp Wildcat Kentucky's first taste of civil war On October 21st 1861, the stillness of this forest was broken by the sound of musket fire. These hills witnessed the first battle between Union and Confederate armies in K…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L1O_camp-wildcat-and-the-wilderness-road_East-Bernstadt-KY.html
When European colonists began to explore westward from Virginia, they saw this as a wild and untamed land. Their settlements in the east provided them with great comfort and safety compared to what they encountered here. To them, this was a wilder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EL7_poynter-building_London-KY.html
Poynter Building-built 1910 W.H. Poynter, restored 1984 Warren N. Scoville has been entered in the National Register of Historical Places by the United States Department of the Interior, August 8, 1985.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EL6_battle-of-london_London-KY.html
500 CSA cavalry led by Col. J.S. Scott attacked 200 USA troops and 98 convalescents under Col. L.C. Houk here Aug. 17, 1862, killed 13, wounded 17, captured 111 men and 40 wagons. CSA lost 2 killed, 4 wounded. Houk forced back to Gen. George W. Mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EL4_wilderness-road-boone-trace_London-KY.html
Wilderness Road 1775-1795 Wilderness Road crossed Boone Trace here-Laurel County established 1825-London 1836 1775-1795 Boone Trace-Kentucky Sesquicentennial 1792-1942 George Rogers Clark passed this way 1776 to Virginia for help for Colonists.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EL1_modrels-station_London-KY.html
Here was one of the four defense posts established to protect emigrant parties moving westward. Approximately five miles south of London, Modrel's Station offered safety for about a year, during 1793-94, until the Indian menace ended. Robert Modre…
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