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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCD_famous-tree-indian-creek-church_Tompkinsville-KY.html
[Front]Famous TreeIn 1894, a huge Tulip Poplar tree was felled about 1-1/2miles south of this site. It measured 11 ft. in diameter, 35 ft. in circumference. Two six-foot saws were welded together to cut it. A four-foot log from the tree was transp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCC_courthouse-burned_Tompkinsville-KY.html
Twenty-two Kentucky courthouses were burned during Civil War, nineteen in last fifteen months: twelve by Confederates, eight by guerrillas, two by Union accident. See map on reverse side.
Courthouse and other buildings in Tompkinsville burned …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQCA_camp-anderson_Gamaliel-KY.html
Camp established by Union Army to train and drill troops and as a place of rendezvous. In October 1861, Col. S. S. Stanton, 25th Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, was ordered to capture the encampment. He marched his regiment into the county a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQC2_free-town-church_Gamaliel-KY.html
Built in 1846 by freed slaves of William Howard, who gave them 400 acres on which to build homes, known since then as Free-Town. Albert Martin gave them the land for the church. No replacements of the original building material of this church, exc…