Robert A. Alexander

1819 - 1867

Robert A. Alexander established the 2,000-acre Woodburn Stud in Woodford County, in part with the inheritance left by an uncle in Scotland. By creating a commercial breeding operation, Alexander introduced a degree of professionalist to breeding horses that ...

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt

1912 - 1999

Son of a sporting coachman, who went down on the Lusitania, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt took over his family's Sagamore Farm in Maryland after his 21st birthday in 1933. He soon purchased Discovery, which campaigned across the country for ...

Diane von Furstenberg

Fashion Walk of Fame

Diane von Furstenberg made fashion history in 1972 when she developed her iconic wrap dress and encouraged her customers to “Feel like a woman. Wear a dress.” By 1976, she has sold 5 million dressed and ...

Audie Murphy Monument

Audie Murphy Crash Site

Audie Leon Murphy

June 20, 1924

May 28, 1971

Born in Kingston, Texas, died near this site in an airplane crash. America's most decorated veteran of World War II. He served in the European Theatre-15th Infantry Regiment-3rd Infantry Division and ...

The Union Fifth Corps at Dawkins Branch

On the morning of August 29, 1862, the Union Fifth Corps, nearly 10,000 troops under Major General Fitz John Porter, advanced from Manassas Junction along this road under orders from Major General John Pope to march towards Gainesville and cut ...

Elizabeth Arden Graham

1884 - 1966

The proprietress of the famed cosmetics house, Elizabeth Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham near Toronto, Canada. At age twenty-four she moved to New York, later borrowed $6000 from her brother, and began her own firm. By 1945, ...

J. A. Smith's Brigade

Cleburne's Division

J. A. Smith's Brigade

Cleburne's Division

Brig. Gen. James A. Smith.

Col. Hiram B. Granbury.

Nov. 25, 1863.

6th and 10th Texas Infantry - Col. Roger Q. Mills.

15th Texas (Dismounted) Cavalry - Col. Roger Q. Mills.

7th Texas - Col. Hiram B. Granbury.

17th, 18th, 24th ...

John D. Hertz

1879-1961

Yellow was the color and name of his taxicab company, and yellow and black were his stable colors. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Hertz' most famous Thoroughbred was Count Fleet, which won the triple Crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes) ...

Daniel Swigert

1833 - 1912

Elmendorf Farms, one of the enduring symbols of the Bluegrass, on Paris Pike, was named by Daniel Swigert. He purchased the 544-acre core of the farm in 1881 for $150,000 from John Sanford, who had called the property ...

The Royalton Raid

October 16, 1780

To terrorize the valley from Tunbridge to Royalton, nearly 300 Indians led by a British officer fell on these defenseless frontier settlements, killing 4, taking 26 prisoners, & reducing Royalton to ashes. The captives hauled back to Canada ...