Broadway Methodist

Paducah's oldest institution. Founded 1832. First edifice erected 1842 on northwest corner Broadway at 4th. Relocated 1875 on southwest corner Broadway at 7th. Moved to present site 1896. Destroyed by fire 1929; rebuilt 1930. Judge Wm. Sutton Bishop, the Old ...

Fort Harker

Constructed by the Union Army in the summer of 1862 and expanded in 1864, using soldiers and freed slaves, Ft. Harker was built on a broad hill a quarter mile east of town. It overlooked Crow Creek and was well ...

Battle of Corydon

On July 9, 1863, along this wooded ridge - - - from the “Laconta” Road extending across the “Mauckport” Pike to the old “New Amsterdam” Road - - - occurred the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It was between ...

Harrison County (Indiana) Fair

Oldest continuous County Fair existing in Indiana. First fair held Sept. 11 - 14, 1860. Citizens met jan. 1860, organized Harrison County Agricultural Society, adopted constitution which with amendments governs yet today. Ground purchased Mar. 1860 from Benj. Aydelott, half ...

William Bartram Trail

Traced 1773-1777

In 1775, William Bartram wrote in “Travels” of the flora and fauna of this area as he gathered specimens to ship to London.

Marker is on Warwoman Road (County Route 219) 2.7 miles east of U.S. 441, on the right ...

The March to the Sea

On Nov. 27, 1864, Baird’s and Morgan’s divisions, 14th Corps [US], moving on the left of Gen. Sherman’s army from Sandersville to Louisville, crossed Ogeechee River at Fenn’s Bridge. Baird turned SE on the lower road and camped near the ...

The Prairie States Forestry Project

The Prairie States Forestry Project was initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to combat the severe wind-caused soil erosion of the Dust Bowl days. From 1935 through 1942, the U.S. Forest Service, working with the Works Progress Administration ...

Andrew College

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Cuthbert is the site of Andrew College, founded here January 1854. Named in honor of Bishop James O. Andrew whose refusal to free his Wife’s slaves separated the Northern and Southern Methodist Episcopal Churches (1844). First President - Augustus Alden, ...

Fayette County Civil War Memorial

Honoring those who served

during the Rebellion of 1861-1865

It is believed that this statue

was placed in this cemetery

between 1905 and 1913.

Following a partial

restoration in 1995 by Irene

Grim Looker, National

President of the Ladies of the

Grand Army of the Republic, it

was totally restored ...

Barkley's Law Office

Alben W. Barkley, Congressman, U.S. Senator and Vice President, began practice of law here, 1901. He had read law for two years in offices of Rep. Charles K. Wheeler and Judge Wm. Sutton Bishop, the old Judge Priest of Irvin ...