The Story Continues

Minute Man Nat’l Hist Park, Mass

The Historical Park ends here, but the Battle Road continues.

The British column broke into a run as they approached Lexington Center. They were saved by a brigade of a thousand fresh troops, armed with two ...

John L. Hart / John Hart House (#1)

John L. Hart In 1845, John Lide Hart (1825-1864) bought a 491-acre plantation here. Along what is now Home Avenue, he built a carriage factory, a store, a steam-powered sawmill and grist-mill, and houses for himself and his workers. Hart ...

Near This Spot

British cannon from Commodore Barclay's fleet bombarded Major Croghan in Fort Stephenson August 1 and 2, 1813. General Proctor attempted to capture the fort by assault with his Wellington veterans assisted by Indians under Tecumseh. Major Croghan with only 160 ...

Jared D. Sheldon

1813 - 1851

These millstones were brought from Mexico by water and oxcart in 1846 and were used by Jared D. Sheldon one of the earliest settlers in this valley in his grist mill near here, his Rancho Omochumne was granted ...

Bowling Green The Confederate Capitol of Kentucky

A newly constituted stated of Kentucky, having been conceived in sovereignty convention Nov. 18-20, 1861 at Russellville,

established Bowling Green as its capitol. The commissioners to the Confederate Congress in Richmond were William Preston, Louisville, William E. Simms, Bourbon, and ...

Battle of Mossy Creek

December 29, 1863

Federal cavalry under Gen. S.D. Sturgis established a line just east of Mossy Creek. At 9:00 a.m., Confederate Gen. W.T. Martin assembled 2000 dismounted cavalry and eight cannons at Talbott's Railroad Station, three miles east. They advanced along ...

David Crockett and Polly Finley

Legendary frontiersman David Crockett and his first wife, Polly Finley, were married on August 14, 1806, at the home of Polly's parents, William and Jean Finley, one~fourth mile southeast of here. After the wedding, David and Polly lived in this ...

Lower Fork Of Lynches Creek Baptist Church / Gum Branch Church

Lower Fork Of Lynches Creek Baptist Church

This church, which probably evolved from a branch meeting house built nearby in 1770 by First Lynches Creek Church, was constituted in 1789; Joshua Palmer became minister in the same year. The church ...

Ebenezer Fiske House Site

Minute Man National Historical Park

Minute Man National Historical Park was the starting place of the American Revolution: here the resolve of citizens willing to risk their lives for the ideals of liberty and self-determination was instrumental in the formation of ...

St. Joseph's Historic District

Railroad Workers' Neighborhood

Much of downtown Bowling Green west of Louisville & Nashville tracks owes its development to the railroad and to nearby industries. Most railroad workers stayed in downtown hotels prior to the mid-1880s when smaller and cheaper fame housing ...