Marlinton: Heritage

Marlinton

“There ain’t no G in MARLINTON!”…so wrote Andrew Price, the first mayor of Marlinton. The town gets its name from Jacob Marlin who arrived here in 1749 with Stephen Sewell and built a cabin near the mouth off the Greenbrier ...

Hal Price Headley

1888 - 1962

Hal Price Headley embodied the image of the Bluegrass horseman. He was sophisticated in business, but always a man of agriculture, raising tobacco as well as Thoroughbreds. His lasting legacy to Lexington was his instrumental role in formation ...

Col. E. R. Bradley

1859 - 1946

The activities of Col. E. R. Bradley ranged from operating Palm Beach's Beach Club casino to staging charity race days for orphans. A product of a burgeoning nation in the 19th century, Bradley worked in steel mills in ...

Henry Clay

1777 - 1852

Visitors familiar with Lexington's Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, know it as a graceful old house, with lovely gardens and grounds. In an earlier time, when Henry Clay built it to some 2,000 acres, Ashland was also ...

James M. Woolworth

1829 - 1906

Born in 1829 in Onondaga County, New York, Mr. Woolworth graduated with high honors from Hamilton College in 1849, and took up the study of law. After two years practicing in Syracuse, New York, he determined to go ...

Samuel D. Riddle

1861 - 1951

"Lots of men might have a million dollars, but only one man can have Man o' war," said Will Harbut, the faithful groom of the great stallion. The one man who had Man o' War was Samuel D. ...

Sam Hildreth

1866 - 1929

Admonished by his father that one could not settle down if he wanted to be a racing man, Sam Hildreth wrote years later of such family sojourns as himself and all nine brothers and sisters being taken by ...

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 ...

Cleburne's Division

Breckinridge's Corps.

[Text from the first tablet]:

Cleburne's Division - Breckinridge's Corps.

Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne.

Nov. 25, 1863.

Govan's Brigade, - Col. Daniel C. Govan.

Smith's Brigade, - Brig. Gen. James A. Smith.

Polk's Brigade, - Brig. Gen. Lucius E. Polk.

Lowrey's Brigade, - Brig. Gen. ...

Joseph Francis Bauman

1822 - 1876

Born in Germany, Joseph Francis Bauman came to Omaha in the early 1860s. Like many others, he may have been escaping the wars that plagued Central Europe at that time. In 1863, with his partner John Green, he ...