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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDO_eliza-calvert-hall-1856-1935_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Eliza Calvert Hall, 1856-1935. . . Side A . Lida Calvert Obenchain ("Eliza Calvert Hall"), suffragist, press superintendent of Ky. Equal Rights Assn., poet, author. Her most famous story, "Sally Ann's Experience" (1898), prote…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDN_home-office-of-duncan-hines-1941-1959_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Home/Office of Duncan Hines 1941-1959. . Authority on restaurants and lodgings in U.S. Born in Bowling Green, 1880. From places visited on business trips, he noted good eating places and inns. That led to annual editions of Adventures in Good Eati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDM_mcfadins-station_Bowling-Green-KY.html
McFadin's Station. . First settlement in Warren County, 1/4 mi. east, was on north side of Barren River near mouth of Drake's Creek. Andrew McFadin, Rev. War soldier from N.C., surveyed area and established station, 1785. It was a popular stopover…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDL_old-stagecoach-stop_Oakland-KY.html
Old Stagecoach Stop. . Built in 1841 by Samuel Murrell, this house was a well-known inn and stagecoach stop on Louisville-Nashville road until the L&N Railroad was completed in 1859. This property previously belonged to Susannah Henry Madison, wif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDG_potter-college_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Potter College. . School for girls founded 1877 as Cedar Bluff Female College near Woodburn. Part of the staff moved to Bowling Green in 1899 and began Potter College. Located on Vinegar Hill, now part of the campus of Western Kentucky University.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DD5_bowling-green_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Bowling Green. . Founded in 1796 by Robert Moore who built cabin at the Big Spring located here. This spring water was nucleus around which the town grew. Moore, his brother, George, and James Stewart posted bond of 1,000 English pounds to establi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B90_confederate-monument-of-bowling-green-a-war-memorial_Bowling-Green-KY.html
To the Confederate
Dead
1861. 1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B8Z_civil-war-rifle-trench_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Bowling Green's Civil War Defenses
The Confederate army occupied Bowling Green from September 1861 to February 1862. During that time, troops camped nearby to guard against a Union attack coming through the open ground between Fort Webb and Fort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L1F_general-dynamics-f-111f_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Arnold L. "Arnie" Franklin, Jr. was born in Franklin, KY, and his family moved to Bowling Green, KY, when he was 10 years old. He graduated from Bowling Green High School in 1962 and Western Kentucky University in 1966. He joined the USAF immedi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L1E_northrop-t-38a-n-talon_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Col. Wilcutt is a native of of Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, having been born there October 31, 1949. He graduated from Southern High School, Louisville, Kentucky in 1967 and earned a B.A. in mathematics from Western Kentucky Universi…