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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOPX_hickman-county-veterans-memorial_Clinton-KY.html
In honor and memory of theveterans of Hickman Countywho served their countryfaithfully and proudly
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOPW_clinton-seminary_Clinton-KY.html
First high school in Ky. west of Tenn. River established at Clinton, 1846. Frame structure erected; burned 1854. In 1850, Clinton Female Seminary was incorporated. Organized as Clinton Academy as charter made no mention of only women students. Pro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOP2_county-named-1821_Clinton-KY.html
For Capt. Paschal Hickman who was massacred by Indians after River Raisin battle, Jan., 1813, one of nine Ky. officers killed in that action for whom counties named. Resided Franklin County, extensive landowner. Originally, Hickman comprised the J…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4W_o-bannon-house_Russellville-KY.html
Lt. Presley N. O'Bannon, USMC, the first American to raise our flag on foreign soil, April 27, 1805. Barbary coast pirates who were holding 180 American seamen for ransom were overcome in an attack led by O'Bannon. He came to Logan County in 1807.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4V_governors-corner_Russellville-KY.html
John J. Crittenden, 1787-1863, lived here, 1811-18. War of 1812, State Legislator, 15th Kentucky Governor. U.S. Atty. Gen. under three Presidents. Five times U.S. Senator. Noted for Crittenden Compromise, 1860, futile effort to avert Civil War and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO49_death-valley-scotty_Cynthiana-KY.html
Native of Cynthiana. Walter E. Scott (Death Valley Scotty), gold prospector, whose fabulous tales of Death Valley, Calif., lost gold mines fooled investors. Stories supported by $3,000,000 castle in desert provided by millionaire of Chicago, who "…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO1U_mary-todd-lincoln_Lexington-KY.html
On this site Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln, was born Dec. 13, 1818, and here spent her childhood.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO1Q_todd-house_Lexington-KY.html
Home of Mary Todd Lincoln from 1832 to 1839. To this house in after years she brought Abraham Lincoln and their children.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO00_generations-have-enjoyed-this-view_Middlesboro-KY.html
I cannot conceive of anyone passing this way who will not avail himself of taking this trail to the top of Pinnacle Mountain...there will be many pilgrimages...[to] this historic spot... The beauty of the mountains, the spirit of the pioneer and t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZY_a-maze-of-mountains_Middlesboro-KY.html
The Cumberland Mountains on which you stand are only one link in a great chain of ridges and valleys that stretch 900 miles from New England to Alabama. The Appalachian wilderness was a 150-mile-wide wall to settlers looking west in the late 1700s…