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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ADT_jail_Danville-KY.html
In 1785, the District of Kentucky ordered the construction of a jail, "to be constructed of 9-inch logs". This replica of the jail was built in 1942.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AC7_willis-russell-house-craddock-and-tardiveau_Danville-KY.html
Willis Russell, a well-educated & emancipated slave of Rev. War captain Robert Craddock, relocated from Warren Co., Ky. to Danville around April 1838. He taught black children in this pre-1795 log home that he inherited when Capt. Craddock died in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AC6_centre-college_Danville-KY.html
Founded on this campus in 1819 by pioneer Kentuckians who held that heart and mind must be trained together, and dedicated to the inculcation of ideals of culture and character in the hearts of American youth. Veritas Lux Mentis.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AC3_sinking-spring_Danville-KY.html
Referred to by geologists as a "karst window", sinking springs form when bedrock has collapsed to reveal groundwater moving through an aquifer. Water flows from the spring, creates a surface-flowing stream, and returns underground. This …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ABL_county-named-1842_Danville-KY.html
For Judge John Boyle, 1774-1834. State representative, 1800; U.S. Congress, 1803-9; Kentucky Court of Appeals, Chief Justice, 1810-26; U.S. District Judge for Kentucky, 1826-34. The Judge "lived for his country," setting many important legal prece…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ABK_first-crop-hemp-in-kentucky_Danville-KY.html
Kentucky's first recorded hemp crop, 1775, was on Clark's Run Creek, near Danville. Grown by Archibald McNeill, who brought the first seed with him when he located here. Hemp production spread slowly throughout the area, but Boyle County later bec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ABJ_john-marshall-harlan-kentuckys-great-dissenter_Danville-KY.html
Born in Boyle Co. and a graduate of Centre College, 1850, Harlan practiced law in central Ky. after 1853. Although against Lincoln and abolition in 1860, he was a strong Unionist during Civil War; recruited 10th Ky. Infantry. Elected Attorney Gene…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AAZ_site-of-log-courthouse_Danville-KY.html
Kentucky District Court sessions held here March 14, 1785, until Court of Appeals set up in 1792. Created by Virginia statute on May 6, 1782, the court first met in Harrodsburg on March 3, 1783. Later meetings at Low Dutch Station and John Crow's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AAX_trinity-episcopal-church_Danville-KY.html
One of the oldest church buildings in Danville. Erected in 1830 after Trinity parish founded in 1829. Rebuilt on the original walls following fire which swept central part of town, 1860. James Birney and Ephraim McDowell members of first vestry. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AAW_school-for-the-deaf_Danville-KY.html
On this corner, in 1823, Kentucky founded the first state-supported school in the United States for the instruction of deaf children. Classes met in an old inn that was known as the Yellow House. Reverend and Mrs. John R. Kerr served as first Supe…