Kentucky Historical Marker #2201
Roy Martis Chappell 1921-2002. A Williamsburg native and Ky. State Univ. student, he was a World War II Tuskegee Airman and B-25 navigator and bombardier. He participated in the 1945 "Freemen Mutiny" where 101 black officers fought inequality by entering a segregated officers' club. This induced Pres. Truman to end military segregation three years later. Over. (Reverse) Helped coordinate Experimental Aircraft Association Young Eagles program to introduce flight and careers in aviation to children. A teacher and guidance counselor, he received awards for his work with youths. He died Sept. 22, 2002, and is buried in Chicago.
Briar Creek Park, Williamsburg, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2202
Lancaster Public Spring. In early 1776 John Wilson and Andrew Cowan erected two small cabins near this location. In October of 1782 James Speed settled near this spring. In 1797 William Buford chose this spring to furnish water for the new Garrard Court. It continued as Lancaster's public water source for nearly 50 years.
US 39 N, Lancaster, ,
Kentucky Historical Marker #2203
Daniel Boone's First Steps in Kentucky. Boone 1st visited Ky. on hunting trip in 1767-68. Hunted Clinch River before coming to Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River. Followed rim of Breaks Canyon through present-day Elkhorn City. He tracked 50 miles along buffalo trace to a salt lick at modern David, Ky. Wintered there before following same route home.
KY 80, Elkhorn City, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2204
Paul Sawyier Boyhood Home. Boyhood home of Paul Sawyier, famous landscape watercolorist & portrait painter. He perfected atmospheric techniques painting Frankfort, Elkhorn Creek, & Ky. River. Also painted High Bridge & Camp Nelson in Jessamine Co., where he lived on the river. Of his 3,000 paintings, only 300 have been recovered. Over. (Reverse) Home of Sawyier's grandmother, Penelope Wingate. In 1869, Paul's parents, Ellen & Dr. Nathaniel Sawyier, moved here from Ohio. Paul attended local schools and painted in Cincinnati, New York, & Kentucky. He died in New York in 1917 and is buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Over.
100 W. Broadway, Frankfort, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2205
"Bloody Monday" and American (Know-Nothing) Party. Election day, Aug. 6, 1855, known as Bloody Monday due to riots led by "Know-Nothing" mobs. This political party was anti-Catholic and nativist. Attacks on German immigrants east of downtown and Irish in the west caused at least 22 deaths, arson, and looting. Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption & St. Martin's Church were threatened with destruction. (Reverse) This party feared that Catholic immigrants from Germany and Ireland threatened Protestanism and democracy. By 1854, the party claimed a million members nationwide and led Jefferson Co. govt. They split over slavery and by the end of the Civil War they had vanished from politics in Louisville and Jefferson Co.
1011 West Main St., Louisville, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2206
H. E. Pogue Distillery Co./ Ryan-Pogue House. Distillery operated here from 1876 until dismantled in August 1973. Was Registered Distillery No. 3, 7th Dist., and offered three brands of bourbon and three brands of rye, wheat, and malt whiskey. Distillery was a large regional employer until closed by Prohibition. Products helped make bourbon industry important to Kentucky's commerce. Over. (Reverse) The house on the hillside south of here was built in 1845 by industrialist and emancipator Michael Ryan. He called his home "Riverside." In 1890, Henry E. Pogue, who owned the distillery on this site, purchased the home, naming it "Star Terrace." It remained in the Pogue family for several generations. Over.
S.R.Highway 8, west of Maysville, Maysville, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2207
Bracken Baptist Church. Church constituted in 1793 by the Rev. Lewis Craig, leader of the "Traveling Church." Bracken Baptist Assoc. also formed here in 1799. The congreggation divided over slavery in 1805, with each faction having own pastor. Church again split in 1829 during the Campbell movement, which called for Biblical liberalism. Over. (Reverse) The church's membership began to decline in 1850. The building was last used as a house of worship around 1900. The property was sold to a private citizen in 1930 for $280 and used as a tobacco barn. The property was donated to the Friends of Minerva historical group in 1996. Restoration of the building completed in 2005. Over.
Highway 435,3429 Dover Minerva Rd, ,
Kentucky Historical Marker #2208
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- McCracken County. Lewis and Clark, with the nucleus of the Corps of Discovery, stayed in present McCracken Co. in Nov. 1803 while traveling down the Ohio River on their journey to the Pacific. Clark returned in 1827 to establish Paducah. Over. (Reverse) Nov. 11-13, 1803, Lewis and Clark stopped at Ft. Massac, Ill., near present-day Paducah and recruited men, including Indian interpreter George Drouillard. On Nov. 13, they camped in area of Metropolis Lake State Nature Preserve.
215 N. Second St., Paducah, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2210
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- Field Brothers. Joseph and Reuben Field were two of the most important members of the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Born in Virginia, they were raised in the present Okolona, Fairdale, and Valley Station areas. Over. (Reverse) Two of the first three recruits of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, they were two of the best hunters and received special praise from Meriwether Lewis for their service. Reuben returned to Ky. after the journey. Joseph was killed in 1807. Over.
11311 Mitchell Hill Rd., Louisville, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2211
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- Kentucky Militia. State militia law (1792) required Kentuckians on the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition to serve in the Kentucky Militia, predecessor to the Kentucky National Guard. Records verify the militia service of William Clark and William Bratton. Over. (Reverse) May 1800, Clark became captain of Jefferson Co. cavalry company in the 33rd Regt. During War of 1812, Bratton was private in 1st Rifle Regt., from Franklin Co. Captured at Battle of River Raisin on Jan. 22, 1813, was exchanged and was discharged on March 27, 1813.
Boone National Guard Center, Frankfort, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2212
Lewis and Clark- Lewis & Shieheke and William Clark in Frankfort. Meriwether Lewis, coleader of the 1803-06 Lewis and Clark Expedition, was in Frankfort from Nov. 13-15, 1806. Party included Mandan Chief Sheheke and family and delegation of Osage Indians. Group traveling to Washington to visit Pres. Thos. Jefferson. Over. (Reverse) William Clark, coleader of the 1803-06 Lewis & Clark Expedition, visited frankfort many times. On Oct. 29, 1809, he confirmed the death of Meriwether Lewis and discussed it with Christopher Greenup, Charles Scott, and others while passing through Frankfort on way to Washington.
325 Ann Street, Frankfort, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2213
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- Death of Meriwether Lewis. William Clark, coleader of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific, spent the night of October 28, 1809, at John Shannon's Tavern near present Graefenburg. That day he read that Lewis, his expedition partner, had killed himself in Tenn. Over. (Reverse) That night Clark wrote a famous letter expressing fear that Lewis had committed suicide. He wrote, "I fear O! I fear the weight of his mind has overcome him." Lewis died Oct. 11, 1809, 70 mi. sw of Nashville on the Natchez Trace.
US 60 & KY 1472 near Graefenburg, ,
Kentucky Historical Marker #2214
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- 1806 Return of Expedition & Death of Meriwaether Lewis. Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, leaders of the 1803-06 journety to the Pacific, visited Shelbyville several times. In Nov. 1806, on the Expedition's return, Lewis arrived with Expedition veterans, Mandan & Osage Indian delegations bound for Washington, DC. Over. (Reverse) In Shelbyville on Oct. 28, 1809, Clark learned of the death of his Expedition partner, Meriwether Lewis. Clark stopped in town when traveling eastward and read a newspaper report that Lewis had killed himself in Tennessee.
5th & Main Streets, Shelbyville, ,
Kentucky Historical Marker #2215
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- Frankfort Newspapers. Ky. newspapers were a major means of reporting news regarding the 1803-06 Lewis & Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Of special importance were the Frankfort papers The Palladium and The Western World. Both carried news of the explorers' return. Over. (Reverse) The October 2 and 9, 1806 issues of The Palladium ran the first printed accounts of the return of Lewis and Clark, noting that the explorers arrived "in very good health." The journey's details were then circulated nationally.
St. Clair Mall, Frankfort, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2216
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- Danville. 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 journey. Over. (Reverse) It is likely that the Expedition coleader Meriwether Lewis visited Danville in November 1806 with Expedition veterans and a Mandan Indian delegation while traveling the Wilderness Road eastward to Washington.
Constitution Square, Main St., Danville, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2217
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- Cumberland Gap. Meriwether Lewis, coleader of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, with a party of Expedition veterans and a Mandan Indian delegation, went through Cumberland Gap in Nov. 1806 en route to Washington to report on the expedition. Over. (Reverse) Expedition coleader William Clark traveled through the Gap in Dec. 1806 on his way to Washington to reunite with Lewis and to report to President Thomas Jefferson and other government officials about the journey.
US 25-E, East of Middlesboro, ,
Kentucky Historical Marker #2218
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- William Clark's 1809 Visit & Death of Meriwether Lewis. William Clark, coleader of the famous Lewis & Clark Expedition, visited Russellville with his family October 3-7, 1809, while traveling to Louisville and farther east. Benjamin & Eleanor Clark Temple, Clark's niece, lived in Russellville. Over. (Reverse) On Oct. 21, 1809, Russellville Farmer's Friend newspaper ran one of the first reports of the death of Meriwether Lewis, coleader of the Expedition. Taken from a Tenn. paper, it detailed his suicide at an inn on the Natchez Trace.
US 68 & KY 80, Russellville, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2219
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- William Clark in Lexington & Meriwether Lewis in Lexington. Clark, coleader of the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, and his family spent October 30, 1809, at Lexington's Traveler's Hall, operated by Cuthbert Banks. Clark also visited expedition member George W. Shannon, who was attending Transylvania University. Over. (Reverse) On Jan. 20, 1808, Lewis, coleader of the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, attended a dinner in his honor at Wilson's Inn, where locals gave 22 toasts. Lewis was passing through Ky. after he was named gov. of La. Territory. Over.
Phoenix Park, Main St., Lexington, KY, United States
Kentucky Historical Marker #2220
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky- Henderson. Robert Frazer, a member of the 1803-06 Lewis & Clark Expedition, visited General Samuel Hopkins here in Feb. & April 1807. Frazer was traveling from St. Louis to Washington and back while helping the U.S. govt. examine the Burr Conspiracy. Wrote Pres. Jefferson from here on April 16. Over. (Reverse) Lewis & Clark and the nucleus of the Corps of Discovery passed by Henderson in Nov. 1803. They were traveling down the Ohio during their 1803-1806 Expedition to the Pacific. Clark had friends here and likely stopped in Henderson.
101 N. Water St., Henderson, ,
Kentucky Historical Marker #2221
Rebecca Rosenthal Judah; National Council of Jewish Women. Rebecca Rosenthal Judah organized the National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section, and served as their president from 1896 to 1910. She worked to win women's right to vote and was also vice president and treasurer of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association. Over. (Reverse) Louisville Section founded in 1895 to further human welfare through education, philanthropy, service, and social action. NCJW helped run the city's free public baths and first kindergarten. Also supported immigrant aid programs, hospitals, libraries, child welfare initiatives. Over.
3600 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, KY, United States