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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQS1_the-woodson-farm_Munfordville-KY.html
Anthony Woodson's fields and woods felt the ravages of war. Yet before and after, and even during the strife, the daily life of a central Kentucky farmstead carried on. As you wander the paths of the Woodson farm and visit the house, keep your sen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQS0_anthony-woodson-farm_Munfordville-KY.html
Thomas Woodson received this farm as a land grant from Thomas Jefferson for service in the Revolutionary War. His son Anthony made his home on this site and developed a prosperous farmstead, considered one of the finest in the county. From his fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRY_morgan-inducted-csa_Munfordville-KY.html
On site, 1200 feet west, stood the church, his headquarters, where Gen. John Hunt Morgan and 84 of his men were formally sworn in, October 27, 1861, as the second Cavalry Regiment, Kentucky Volunteers, CSA. Formerly part of the Lexington Rifles, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRW_l-n-railroad-bridge_Munfordville-KY.html
The railroad bridge over the Green River stands a quarter mile to the southwest. Constructed 1857-59 by engineer Albert Fink, the bridge was at the time the largest iron bridge in the United States, with a total length of 1,800 ft. Stonemasons Joh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRV_boots-randolph_Munfordville-KY.html
Internationally known saxophonist, Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph attended the old Munfordville High School on this site from 1942-1944. While here he played guitar and trombone. Randolph started playing saxophone as a high school senior in Evansvil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRU_living-on-the-land_Munfordville-KY.html
When humans first came to the Green River valley thousands of years ago, they quickly learned how to make use of the native trees, shrubs, grasses and flowering plants. From accounts by the first European settlers, we know that they used dugout ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRR_the-pump-tower_Munfordville-KY.html
When a town was settled, the settlers most often chose the site because of a nearby crossroads, or, more importantly, because of nearby natural resources - especially water. Town founder Richard Munford had the best of both here, with the easy for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRQ_return-of-the-natives_Munfordville-KY.html
Centuries past, before central Kentucky became settled, a great swath of grassland and savannah stretched from the Ohio River down into Tennessee. Pioneers established Munfordville right in the middle of it. As settlement expanded, these "barrens"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRP_amos-ferry_Munfordville-KY.html
James Amos, one of the early settlers of the lands on the south bank of Green River, built what became known as the Amos Flatboat Landings in the 1790s - the north and south landings here, along with others at the mouths of Lynn Camp Creek and Lit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQRO_pontooniers_Munfordville-KY.html
As useful as Munfordville's small ferry was, it couldn't meet the needs of whole armies. As soon as General Alexander McDowell McCook's army arrived at Green River in the fall of 1861, soldiers immediately began building flat-bottomed boats to sup…
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