Christian

18 historical markers in Kentucky

Bethel College

Hopkinsville, KY

Organized by the Bethel Baptist Association and opened in 1854 as Bethel Female High School.

Charles Slaughter Morehead

Hopkinsville, KY

This Ky. governor and congressman was born near Bardstown.

Church Hill Grange House

Built 1878 by the Grange.

County Named, 1797

Hopkinsville, KY

For Col. William Christian, native Virginian, soldier, politician, and pioneer.

Courthouse Burned

Hopkinsville, KY

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

First Presbyterian

Hopkinsville, KY

Organized in 1813, traditionally by the Reverend Gideon Blackburn, a pioneer minister and missionary to the Cherokee Indians.

Forrest Reconnoitered

Hopkinsville Stone Comp., KY

CSA General Nathan Bedford Forrest with 6 cavalry companies joined Gen. Charles Clark here November 15, 1861.

Genoa

Winston Jones Davie, 1824-87, home and burial site.

Grace Episcopal Church

Hopkinsville, KY

Organized in 1831 by local laymen with aid of George P. Giddinge, Md.

Hdqrs. CSA Commander/101 CSA Unknown

Hopkinsville, KY

Nathan Bedford Forrest, stationed in Hopkinsville during winter of 1861-62, resided, with wife and daughter, in log house, the third...

Lewis & Clark in Kentucky

Hopkinsville, KY

WILLIAM CLARK William Clark, coleader of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and his family stopped at Allsbury’s Tavern in Hopkinsville on...

Mary Edmunds Bronaugh

Hopkinsville, KY

Born in Hopkinsville in 1885, she was admitted to the KY Bar and was a member of the KY Equal Rights Assoc.

No-Tillage Farming

KY 107, KY

First practice of no-tillage crop production in Ky.

Peace Park

Hopkinsville, KY

Bequest to city of Hopkinsville with funds for beautification and maintenance by John C. Latham of New York, a native of Hopkinsville.

Pioneer Graveyard 1812-1858

Hopkinsville, KY

Within this enclosure are buried 185 named persons, and many more unknown, all early settlers of Christian County.

The Trail of Tears

Hopkinsville, KY

A camping ground, Oct. 1838, for a part of the Cherokee Indians who were forcibly moved from their homes in the Smoky Mountain region of...

Union General's Grave

Hopkinsville, KY

Brig. Gen. James S. Jackson, USA, killed in the battle of Perryville on Oct. 8, 1862, is buried in south end of cemetery.

Universalist Church

KY 109, KY

Near this site, the Consolation Universalist Church was organized by a traveling preacher, William Lowe, in the home of James E. Clark in...

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