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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQT_hart-county_Munfordville-KY.html
1784 1815Born 1784, Died 1813. Brought in childhood from Hagerstown, Md. to Lexington, Ky. Successful in both law and mercantile business. In 1812 raised and commanded Lexington Light Infantry; with his company went to Northwest Territory; severel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQS_a-remarkable-kentucky-family_Munfordville-KY.html
This village's first postmaster and a charter member of Munfordville Presbyterian Church, John Thompson Street Brown (1793-1875) is the forbear of a remarkable and internationally known Kentucky family. William and Hannah Street Brown settled 1,00…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQR_munfordville-in-the-civil-war_Munfordville-KY.html
The small, unassuming county-seat village of Munfordville, founded on an old buffalo crossing and home to a well-known tavern, could claim pride of place in 1860 as the spot where the L&N Railroad crossed the Green River, over what whas then the l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQQ_carter-dowling-school-teachers-at-colored-elementary-schools-of-hart-county-circa-1950_Munfordville-KY.html
Carter-Dowling SchoolUpon closing its one room schools in 1950, the Hart County Board of Education constructed Carter-Dowling School, a consolidated elementary school for "colored" children of Hart County.
The School was named for Daisie C. Car…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQP_john-muir-robert-munford_Munfordville-KY.html
On September 1, 1867, John Muir, the noted American naturalist, started his walk from Indianapolis to Cedar Keys on the Gulf of Mexico. In his book, A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, Muir recounts his visit to Munfordville. "September 5 - Arrived …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQO_william-clark-and-family_Munfordville-KY.html
In the fall of 1809, William Clark was summoned to Washington from St. Louis by President Madison to discuss the governance of the Louisiana Purchase Territories, which he had explored with Meriwether Lewis during the Jefferson administration. Wil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQPO_henry-clay-furnace-iron-made-in-kentucky_Munfordville-KY.html
Henry Clay FurnaceBuilt 7? miles east in 1832 by Aylette Hartswell Buckner, S.V. Leedom, Cadwallader Churchill. A stone stack about 35 ft. high, 9 ft. across at widest inside, it burned charcoal fuel to produce pig iron and utensils from local ore…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQPM_glen-lily_Munfordville-KY.html
Build 1819-22 by Colonel Aylette Hartswell Buckner. Birthplace of his son, General Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823-1914), Confederate States Army Commander, Governor of Kentucky, 1887-1891, nominee for Vice-Presidency, 1896.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQPL_church-hospital_Munfordville-KY.html
Munfordville Presbyterian Church, founded, 1829. In Sept., 1862, during siege of Munfordville, the Union Army commandeered this church for use as a hospital with nurses' quarters in house at left. Those who died in battle or of wounds, removed to …