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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDO_eliza-calvert-hall-1856-1935_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Eliza Calvert Hall, 1856-1935. . . Side A . Lida Calvert Obenchain ("Eliza Calvert Hall"), suffragist, press superintendent of Ky. Equal Rights Assn., poet, author. Her most famous story, "Sally Ann's Experience" (1898), prote…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDN_home-office-of-duncan-hines-1941-1959_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Home/Office of Duncan Hines 1941-1959. . Authority on restaurants and lodgings in U.S. Born in Bowling Green, 1880. From places visited on business trips, he noted good eating places and inns. That led to annual editions of Adventures in Good Eati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDM_mcfadins-station_Bowling-Green-KY.html
McFadin's Station. . First settlement in Warren County, 1/4 mi. east, was on north side of Barren River near mouth of Drake's Creek. Andrew McFadin, Rev. War soldier from N.C., surveyed area and established station, 1785. It was a popular stopover…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDL_old-stagecoach-stop_Oakland-KY.html
Old Stagecoach Stop. . Built in 1841 by Samuel Murrell, this house was a well-known inn and stagecoach stop on Louisville-Nashville road until the L&N Railroad was completed in 1859. This property previously belonged to Susannah Henry Madison, wif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DDG_potter-college_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Potter College. . School for girls founded 1877 as Cedar Bluff Female College near Woodburn. Part of the staff moved to Bowling Green in 1899 and began Potter College. Located on Vinegar Hill, now part of the campus of Western Kentucky University.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DD5_bowling-green_Bowling-Green-KY.html
Bowling Green. . Founded in 1796 by Robert Moore who built cabin at the Big Spring located here. This spring water was nucleus around which the town grew. Moore, his brother, George, and James Stewart posted bond of 1,000 English pounds to establi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D4T_major-william-croghan-1752-1822_Louisville-KY.html
Major William Croghan 1752-1822. . . Side 1 . Born in Dublin he arrived in America c. 1768. Present at 1776 Delaware crossing and battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Germantown & Monmouth; wintered 1777-78 at Valley Forge: captured at Char…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D06_pikesville_Tompkinsville-KY.html
Pikesville. . The proprietary town of "Pikesville" was established here with 10 streets and public square in August, 1818, east of Pikesville Branch and north of "Old Pikeville Rd" on 75 acres of land granted to Thomas Flippin in 1798. Pikesville …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D05_daniel-boone-was-here_Tompkinsville-KY.html
Daniel Boone Was Here. . South of "Old Pikeville Rd" and Thomas Flippin's land was a military grant of 1,800 acres awarded to Virginia Navy Captain Thomas Lilly for his service in the American Revolutionary War, assigned to Charles Copland (1,442 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CNO_booker-t-washington-school_Ashland-KY.html
Booker T. Washington School. . In 1894 Ashland Board of Education assumed management of "Negro School," where African American William Reynolds was principal. In 1901 a bond issue passed with support of blacks and Superintendent J.G. Cra…
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