Caldwell

15 historical markers in Kentucky

Cedar Hill Cemetery

Princeton, KY

CEDAR HILL CEMETERY - Cedar Hill Cemetery, known as City Cemetery until 1918, was founded in 1809.

County Named, 1809

Princeton, KY

For General John Caldwell.

Courthouse Burned

Princeton, KY

Gen. Hylan B. Lyon with 800 men invaded Ky.

Cumberland Presbyterian College

Princeton, KY

Site of college founded March, 1826, by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Farmersville School

First school in Farmersville began here in 1844, when Floyd Nash, age 24, commenced teaching "sixteen schollars" in a log structure at...

Fredonia

Fredonia, KY

Town founded 1835 as a voting precinct.

Ogden Memorial United Methodist Church

Princeton, KY

Congregation organized in 1818 as Methodist Episcopal Church at home of Richard Barnes, a tanner.

Preacher to Pioneers

Princeton, KY

Bishop Asbury named two itinerant Methodist preachers to Kentucky in 1786.

Princeton First Baptist Church

Princeton, KY

First Baptist Church, organized on March 30, 1850, under the leadership of the Rev. James Mansfield and a presbytery from Donaldson,...

Ranger Leader Blinded

KY 91, KY

Confederate Gen. Adam R. Johnson with 1700 Partisan Rangers were in area seeking recruits and supplies.

Shandy Hall (Princeton)

Princeton, KY

Shandy Hall, two-story stone home built on bluff above Big Spring, built by William Prince on his 200-acre survey made in 1798.

Skirmish at Grubb's Crossroads

KY 91, KY

Most Caldwell County Confederates enlisted in Gen. Adam Johnson's Co. K, 10th Ky.

Trail of Tears

Princeton, KY

At this point on the "Varmintrace" Road from Princeton toward Cumberland River the Cherokee Indians in 1838 camped on the 1200-mile...

U.S. Research and Education Center

Princeton, KY

Established by Ky. legislature in 1924 as Western Ky.

William Prince, 1752-1810

Princeton, KY

Born in Virginia, his family moved to Spartanburg Co., S.C. in 1768.

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