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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2998_wendell-h-ford_Owensboro-KY.html
Civic Leader, Legislator
KY. Governor and U.S. Senator
A faithful friend
to his fellow citizens of
Daviess County, KY.
Presented Aug. 11, 1979
by
The Daviess Co. Young Democrats
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2997_daviess-countians-who-served-a-war-memorial_Owensboro-KY.html
During World War I approximately 80,000 men enlisted from Kentucky. Of this number 1,747 that answered the call to serve, between April 1917 and November 1918, were from Daviess County. Seventy-one were killed in action and seventy-six others woun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295L_courthouse-burned_Owensboro-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.
Jan. 4, 1865, the courthouse at Owensboro, occupied by …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM295K_daviess-co-u-s-colored-troops-in-the-civil-war_Owensboro-KY.html
(side 1)
In 1864, several hundred enslaved African American men joined the Union army here. Enlisting in the army meant eventual freedom for the men and their families. Units raised in Daviess Co. took part in important operations at Richmond, Pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM294S_george-graham-vest-tribute-to-a-dog_Owensboro-KY.html
(side 1 - George Graham Vest)
Established Owensboro's second newspaper, The Gazette, near here in 1852, with Robert S. Triplett, an Owensboro businessman.
Vest was U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1879-1903. Author of world famous "Tribute to …