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historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-89e30_warwick-oregon-warwick_Salvisa-KY.html
Warwick/OregonWarwick flourished for some 50 years and was succeeded by Oregon. Both were early shipping ports. Flatboats, during Warwick era, and later steamboats, at Oregon, ran regularly between here and New Orleans. This point was at head of s…
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Pioneer Teacher, 1779 John May, first teacher in school at McAfee Station, 1779. One of four Ky. Dist. delegates, 1781, to Va. House of Burgesses. First clerk of Supreme Court, Ky. Dist. and one of original trustees of Transylvania Seminary, 1783…
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Pioneer Teacher, 1779 John May, first teacher in school at McAfee Station, 1779. One of four Ky. Dist. delegates, 1781, to Va. House of Burgesses. First clerk of Supreme Court, Ky. Dist. and one of original trustees of Transylvania Seminary, 1783…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-a0390_john-mcmurtrys-station_Harrodsburg-KY.html
John and Elizabeth McCoun McMurtry established this station around 1780, and the log house presumed to be part of the station still exists within this structure. Captain McMurtry survived the Battle of Blue Licks but was captured, required to ru…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-5fe96_rev-john-rice_Harrodsburg-KY.html
Side 1A Va. native, Rice served in the Illinois regiment under command of Col. George Rogers Clark during the American revolution. After the war, he brought his family to Ky. and settled on Shawnee run in Mercer Co. Ordained soon after he arrived,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-04ae2_john-gordons-station_Harrodsburg-KY.html
This is the site of John and Elizabeth Grayson Gordon's second station, with the first station becoming the property of Stephen Trigg. John Gordon was killed at the Battle of Blue Licks, and his land was inherited by his son Ambrose Gordon. The si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AKB_graham-springs_Harrodsburg-KY.html
As early as 1807, springs in this area were used as a spa. In 1827, Dr. Christopher C. Graham purchased the springs. This "Saratoga of the West" flourished until 1853, when sold to US Gov't. as a military asylum. Fire later destroyed main building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AJM_an-early-derby-winner-another-derby-winner_Harrodsburg-KY.html
An Early Derby Winner Leonatus, the 1883 Kentucky Derby winner, owned by Col. Jack Chinn and George Morgan, at old Leonatus Farm, 7 mi. east, in Mercer Co. By Longfellow, out of Semper Felix, by *Phaeton, as a three-year-old, within a period of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AJ6_the-baptist-tabernacle-of-the-wilderness_Harrodsburg-KY.html
Scene of the first series of religious services conducted in Kentucky by Reverend Thomas Tinsley a Baptist Minister, assisted by William Hickman April - May 1776. The spreading Elm was the pioneers' first sanctuary.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AIR_wilderness-revival_Harrodsburg-KY.html
Scene of the first of a series of religious revivals conducted in Kentucky during April and May of 1776. The Rev. Thomas Tinsley, a Baptist minister, was assisted by William Hickman in meetings held here under a spreading elm tree. The tree was on…
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