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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CGS_fishers-garrison_Danville-KY.html
Stephen Albert Fisher, Rev. War soldier from Va., assigned in 1775 to active duty and wounded while serving with Colonel John Bowman's militia. Returned to Ky. in 1779 with wife Mary Magdalene Garr. He established garrison of military significance…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AML_site-of-first-rural-electric-co-op-substation-in-county_Danville-KY.html
W. H. Rogers, president of Inter-County R.E.C.C., threw the switch at the Perryville substation on June 10, 1938, to energize 56 miles of line to 115 homes. In 2013, on the 75th anniversary of this event, Inter-County Energy served more than 25,00…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AKF_crawford-springs_Danville-KY.html
As Confederate and Union armies converged over to the west the day and night before great Battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862, there was constant fighting for water. Almost unprecedented drought had made water so scarce that troops contended for po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAB_dr-ephraim-mcdowell-1771-1830-mcdowell-crawford-surgery_Danville-KY.html
Burial site of Ephraim McDowell, the "father of modern surgery." His family moved here from Va. in 1784. He studied medicine in Va. and Scotland before practicing in Danville. In 1802, he married Sarah Shelby, dau. of Ky.'s first gov. Was also a f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKM_john-todd-stuart-1807-1885_Danville-KY.html
Abraham Lincoln's friend and 1st law partner was born on Nov. 10, 1807, in Fayette Co. The son of a Presbyterian minister & Mary Todd Lincoln's aunt, Stuart graduated from Centre College in 1826. Two years later he became a lawyer in Springfield, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKL_presbyterian-church_Danville-KY.html
One of three founded, 1784, by Reverend David Rice; earliest of this denomination west of Alleghenies. Here worshipped: James G. Birney, whose presidential candidacy in 1844 caused defeat of Henry Clay; John C. Breckinridge, whose 1860 candidacy r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKK_lewis-and-clark-in-kentucky-danville_Danville-KY.html
In December 1806, William Clark, coleader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean, visited his nephews in school in Danville. Clark was en route to Washington to report to President Jefferson and other government officials about the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKJ_walker-daniel_Danville-KY.html
Founded Danville, 1781. First Atty. Gen. of Ky. District, 1783. As a member of Commission went to Falls of Ohio to allot lands in Clark's grant to members of Ill. Regt. Daniel was killed by Indians, Aug. 1784, on way to visit brother at Bullitt's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKI_graysons-tavern_Danville-KY.html
Danville's first tavern, operated in this building before 1800 by Benjamin Grayson. Often within these walls the burning political issues of the day were discussed. The Danville Political Society, organized in 1786 and the first of its kind in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXKH_african-american-business-district-doric-lodge-no-18-f-a-m-p-h-a_Danville-KY.html
In this block a thriving African American business district stood for over 100 years. Restaurants, barber and beauty shops, medical and dental offices, and retail shops drew patrons from Boyle and nearby counties. Until razed by urban renewal in 1…
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