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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYW_joshua-fry-bell_Pineville-KY.html
Bell County formed from Harlan and Knox Counties, 1867. Named for Joshua Fry Bell, 1811-70, congressman, Ky. Sec. of State, comr. to peace conference in 1861 and state legislature. He was g. grandson of Dr. Thomas Walker, explorer of Ky. wildernes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYN_silas-baptist-church_Paris-KY.html
Organized by 20 members of the Cooper's Run Church in 1800, with the help of Ambrose Dudley, George Eve and Augustine Eastin. They built at this site on land given, 1798, by Charles Smith, Sr. The log structure was replaced by a brick house of wor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYM_a-renowned-piscator_Cynthiana-KY.html
Dr. James A. Henshall, 1836-1925, author Book of the Black Bass and others, brought fame to Kentucky's South Licking, Elkhorn, and Stoner streams. He came here to practice medicine. During Civil War healed wounds for men in Blue and Gray. Left, re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYL_1st-and-2nd-battle-of-cynthiana_Cynthiana-KY.html
(Front):1st Battle of CynthianaDuring CSA Col. John H. Morgan's 1st KY Raid, on July 17, 1862, 875 CSA hit town via the Georgetown Pike. 350 US troops & Home Guard defended town from houses. Morgan attacked across Licking River and outflanked US t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYH_wallsend-mine_Pineville-KY.html
The first to begin operations in Bell County, starting in 1889, with 1500 acres of coal land. Extension of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to this area in 1888 marked the beginning of a new industrial era. This mine was not a financial succe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYG_mt-horeb-presbyterian-church_Lexington-KY.html
This church was organized April 21, 1827, at nearby "Cabell's Dale," home of Mary Cabell Breckinridge, widow of John Breckinridge, U.S. Senator and Attorney General in Thomas Jefferson's cabinet. The original brick church, constructed in 1828 on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYE_new-zion_Georgetown-KY.html
On Nov. 23, 1872, former slaves Calvin Hamilton and Primus Keene purchased 23 acres. They sold plots to other freedmen and formed black community of Briar Hill; it was later named New Zion. Keene sold land for community well, school, and church. C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYD_the-old-mansion_Frankfort-KY.html
Home of thirty-three Governors during their terms of office and scene of elaborate political and social functions, 1797 to 1914. Thomas Metcalfe, who laid the stone foundation in 1797, later occupied the mansion as the tenth Kentucky Governor, 182…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNYC_first-baptist-church_Frankfort-KY.html
Organized in 1833, issuing from an integrated worship, this church was established by John Ward and Ziah Black. Ward donated first lot. Members worshipped in private homes before occupying the first structure. Construction for present church began…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNY9_madeline-m-breckinridge-kentucky-suffrage-leader_Lexington-KY.html
Madeline M. BreckinridgeThis descendant of Henry Clay and Ephraim McDowell was born 1872 in Franklin Co.; grew up at "Ashland," Clay's home; and married Desha Breckinridge, editor of Lexington Herald. Ill with tuberculosis, she promoted its treatm…