Kentucky Historical Marker #0001
Ashland. Historic home of Henry Clay. Orator-Statesman-Patriot. Kentucky's favorite son. Born-1777. Died-1852.
120 Sycamore Rd., Lexington, KY, United States
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Kentucky Historical Marker #0002
Keeneland. 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.
US 60, Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0003
Morgan House. Home of John Hunt Morgan, "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy." Born Huntsville, Alabama, June 1, 1825. Killed Greeneville, Tennessee, September 4, 1864. Lieutenant, Kentucky Volunteers in Mexican War 1846-1847. Major General, C.S.A., 1861-1864.
Garden at 201 N. Mill St., Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0004
Jefferson Davis. For three years (1821-1824) while a student at Transylvania University Jefferson Davis (afterwards President of Southern Confederacy) lived here with Joseph Ficklin then Postmaster of Lexington.
Limestone & High Sts., Lexington, KY, United States
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Kentucky Historical Marker #0006
First Race Course. Near this spot pioneers in 1780 established the starting point of the first race path in Kentucky, extending southward one quarter mile.
343 South Broadway, Lexington, KY, United States
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Kentucky Historical Marker #0009
Fort Clay. Extensive earthworks with ditch, drawbridges and magazine were constructed here by Federal forces after the Battle of "Ashland," May 1862.
West end of viaduct on US 60, Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0010
Masterson's Station. Near here stood two-story log house built by Richard Masterson. This station was site of first Methodist church in Ky. In Masterson home, May 1790, Bishop Francis Asbury held the first Methodist Conference west of the Alleghenies. When Richard and Sarah Masterson moved to Port William (present-day Carrollton), they continued to lead Methodist activities.
Masterson Station Park, US 421, Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0011
Todd House. Home of Mary Todd Lincoln from 1832 to 1839. To this house in after years she brought Abraham Lincoln and their children.
578 W. Main St., Lexington, KY, United States
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Kentucky Historical Marker #0012
Mary Todd Lincoln. On this site Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln, was born Dec. 13, 1818, and here spent her childhood.
511 W. Short St., Lexington, KY, United States
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Kentucky Historical Marker #0014
Beck House. Residence of James Burnie Beck. Born Dumfriesshire, Scot., 1822, died Washington, D.C., 1890. Law partner John C. Breckinridge. Congressman from Ky., 1867-75. U.S. Senator from Ky. 1876-90.
209 E. High St., Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0016
Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church. Here stood the pioneer church of Lexington, organized 1784. About 1795, the property passed to "Associate Reformed" Church. The Rev. Adam Rankin was minister from 1784 until his death in 1827.
Short St., Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0017
Boone's Station. Stood about one-half mile east. Established in 1779 by Daniel Boone who, with his family, resided there for several years.
Athens-Boonesboro Rd., Athens, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0018
Blue Licks Battlefield. On Aug. 19, 1782, between this hill-top and Licking River a bloody battle was fought by Kentucky pioneers against a superior force of Indians and British-Canadians.
US 68, approx. 200 ft. W. of Jct. with KY 165, ,
Kentucky Historical Marker #0019
Main Street Christian Church. Built on this site in 1842. The 12-day Campbell-Rice debate on Christian Baptism, etc., was held here Nov. 1843, Hon. Henry Clay presiding.
162 E. Main St., Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0020
Ohio Company of Virginia. Southerly line of survey of 800,000 acres (nominally 200,000) made by Capt. Hancock Lee in 1775 for company formed in 1748 to acquire lands in Ohio Valley. A corner is S 70o E about 1 mile.
Russell Cave Pk., 5 mi. N of Lexington, Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0021
Bryan's Station. Camping place in 1775-76 of the brothers Morgan, James, William and Joseph Bryan. In 1779 was fortified as a station which in Aug. 1782 repelled a siege of Indians and Canadians under Capt. William Caldwell and Simon Girty.
Bryan Station Pk., 5 mi. N. of Lexington, Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0022
The Discovery of the Ohio River. In A.D. 1669 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, commissioned by the French officials of Louis XIV at Quebec, seeking a water route to China and Japan, guided by an Indian and accompanied by a party in canoes, descended this river, called by the Iroquois Indians the Ohio, meaning the beautiful river. Sponsored by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
S. end of George Rogers Clark Mem. Bridge at north end of 2nd St., Louisville, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0024
Poet, Lawyer and Soldier. Theodore O'Hara was born in this city, Feb. 11, 1820. He read law with Judge Wm. Owsley. Newspaper work included editing Frankfort Yeoman and Louisville Times. He served in Mexican War, Cuban rebellion and Civil War; on staffs of Generals J. C. Breckinridge and A. S. Johnston, CSA. Died 1867; reinterred with military honors, 1874, in Frankfort Cemetery. (Reverse) Theodore O'Hara: O'Hara's memorable poem, "The Bivouac of the Dead," was written to commemorate the burial of Kentucky soldiers who fell at Battle of Buena Vista. By act of legislature O'Hara was reinterred beside his Mexican comrades. "On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead." For more information, see ExploreKYHistory: Theodore O'Hara
Courthouse lawn, Main St., Danville, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #0025
The Traveling Church, 1781. In search of religious freedom, the Reverend Lewis Craig led his entire congregation of 200 Baptists and 400 other settlers from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and established them here on Gilbert's Creek. This expedition, guided through the wilderness by Captain William Ellis, was the largest group of pioneers ever to enter the District of Kentucky in a single body. Erected by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
SE of Lancaster, KY 39, ,
Kentucky Historical Marker #0026
Spring Fort Built Before 1782. The rock spring on Beal's Branch 800 feet south marks Spring Fort. One of the pioneer "Beargrass settlements" contemporary with the founding of Louisville. When its commander, Richard Steele, was wounded in an Indian attack at Floyd's first fort, his wife seized her baby and, riding through the night amid shots from the red men, sped up what is now Story Avenue across Beargrass Creek and Lexington Road and through the fort's hastily opened gateway to the succor of her husband.
McCready Ave. &Trinity, Louisville, KY, United States