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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCI_fort-webb_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Constructed by CSA during early days of Civil War. One of numerous fortifications in Bowling Green area used by CSA and Union forces. Located at head of navigation on Barren and Green River systems, Bowling Green became an important stronghold wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCH_fort-williams_Glasgow-KY.html
Site of Civil War fort built in spring of 1863. Attacked Oct. 6 by Confederate Col. John M. Hughs and his 25th Tenn. Infantry. US troops under Maj. Samuel Martin surprised. Over 200 horses captured, part of fort burned, and 142 men taken prisoner,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCG_old-mulkey-church_Tompkinsville-KY.html
First church in this area located 200 yards from here. Formed, 1773, by Philip Mulkey, other settlers from Carolinas. Church grew till this larger house built in 1804. Building in form of the Cross, 12 corners for Apostles, 3 doors for Trinity. Da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCF_moores-mill_Tompkinsville-KY.html
Phillip Moore purchased a steam saw mill on Meshack Creek from S. A. Moore, 1874. Phillip's son Joel and 4 grandsons eventually moved mill here. In 1929 the expanded lumber mill was among first mills in area to operate at night with electric light…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCE_monroe-county-tompkinsville_Tompkinsville-KY.html
The only county of the 2,957 in the United States named for a President where the county seat is named for the contemporary Vice-President. County formed in 1820; named for James Monroe the fifth President, author of the Monroe Doctrine. The count…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCD_famous-tree-indian-creek-church_Tompkinsville-KY.html
[Front]Famous TreeIn 1894, a huge Tulip Poplar tree was felled about 1-1/2miles south of this site. It measured 11 ft. in diameter, 35 ft. in circumference. Two six-foot saws were welded together to cut it. A four-foot log from the tree was transp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCC_courthouse-burned_Tompkinsville-KY.html
Twenty-two Kentucky courthouses were burned during Civil War, nineteen in last fifteen months: twelve by Confederates, eight by guerrillas, two by Union accident. See map on reverse side.
Courthouse and other buildings in Tompkinsville burned …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCA_camp-anderson_Gamaliel-KY.html
Camp established by Union Army to train and drill troops and as a place of rendezvous. In October 1861, Col. S. S. Stanton, 25th Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, was ordered to capture the encampment. He marched his regiment into the county a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQC2_free-town-church_Gamaliel-KY.html
Built in 1846 by freed slaves of William Howard, who gave them 400 acres on which to build homes, known since then as Free-Town. Albert Martin gave them the land for the church. No replacements of the original building material of this church, exc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQBE_the-galt-house_Louisville-KY.html
A world-famed inn operated here from 1835 until it burned in 1865. Host to notables, such as author Charles Dickens, it was scene of assassination of USA Gen. Wm. Nelson, Sept. 1862, by USA Gen. J.C. Davis. Sherman and Grant met here March, 1864 t…