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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKM9_albert-benjamin-chandler-gov-albert-b-chandler_Versailles-KY.html
[ Front: ]Albert Benjamin ChandlerThis colorful orator and two-term governor began his law practice in Versailles. As governor, he was driving force behind establishment of the University of Kentucky Medical Center, later named in his honor. "Happ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKM8_keeneland_Lexington-KY.html
Here on May 14, 1825, General LaFayette was entertained by Major John Keene who had served as his aide-de-camp during the Revolutionary War.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKM2_old-providence-church_Winchester-KY.html
Daniel Boone attended, Squire, Jr., Samuel, and Mary Boone baptized here. Church name changed, 1790, from Howard's Creek to Providence. William Bush, a member of Boone's second Ky. expedition, built the present stone structure of native limestone.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKHD_morgans-second-raid_Boston-KY.html
CSA Gen. John H. Morgan ordered Col. D.W. Chenault's regiment to burn the railroad trestle here, Dec. 29, 1862. This and destruction of two trestles at Muldraugh's Hill, the previous day, put L&N railroad, the main USA supply line, out of use for …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKGV_site-of-starns-defeat_Berea-KY.html
Side AShortly after Daniel Boone and his party chopped out a trail to the Kentucky River in 1775, members of the Starns family came to Boonsborough from Southwest Virginia, made land entries and helped build the fort. Frederick Starn, Sr. had immi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKFP_frances-e-beauchamp-prohibition-advocate_Richmond-KY.html
Marker Front:Frances E. Beauchamp(1857-1923)This Madison Co. native spearheaded the antiliquor crusade in Ky. and was a leading figure in temperance movement nationwide. A protegee of famed Frances E. Willard, Beauchamp lectured on dry cause throu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKBP_the-battle-of-richmond-knocked-at-bereas-door_Berea-KY.html
(front):Civil War troop movements through Berea were common prior to the Aug. 29-30, 1862, Battle of Richmond. Military traffic in and near Berea caused villagers to hear the Civil War "knocking at their east door." At Big Hill on the Old State Ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKBO_edward-eddie-ward_Pine-Knot-KY.html
Marker front:Born in Pine Knot, Ky. on Nov. 23, 1881. Enlisted in U.S. Army, 1901. In 1907, Cpl. Ward was assigned by the Signal Officer to take charge of "all matters pertaining to military ballooning, air machines, and all kindred subjects." He …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKA0_camp-wildcat_East-Bernstadt-KY.html
In memory of those who fought here. This monument is dedicated on October 17, 1992, in Kentucky's Bicentennial year.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK18_james-j-andrews_Flemingsburg-KY.html
Andrews lived here 1859 - 62. In 1862 he led 22 Union soldiers into Georgia to cut the railway between Marietta & Chattanooga. Their capture of the locomotive "The General" and their pursuit by Confederates was a dramatic incident of the Civil War.