Breckinridge's Last Home

Built circa 1866, this house was occupied by John C. Breckinridge in 1874-1875. The former U.S. senator and youngest U.S. vice-president was also a Confederate general and secretary of war. After exile, he returned to Lexington in 1869 and resumed ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan / Genetic Research

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Winner of 1933 Nobel Prize was born in Hunt-Morgan house, 1866; grew up here. A nephew of John Hunt Morgan, he attended State College of Ky. (Univ. of Ky.). Taught at Columbia Univ. and there, influenced by Mendel's ...

German Evangelical Church, 1860

Under the brick veneer is the

framework of the original

German Evangelical Church, 1860.

Marker is at the intersection of Bridge Street and 11th Street, on the left when traveling east on Bridge Street.

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Colonel Orlin Thurston

Commanded Allen County Troops

Found dying Secrest

Saw Mill Owner. State Senator.

Founded Newspaper.

Abolitionist.

Marker is on 8th Street near Bridge Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Abel Secrest

Farmer Abel Secrest

was shot by Confederates

Oct. 14, 1861

after refusing to

give up his mules.

Marker is on 8th Street near Bridge Street, on the left when traveling north.

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Neosho River Log Town

Among scrub oaks along the Neosho [River], log town housed soldiers of the Kansas 9th

Marker is on 1st Street near Pine Street, on the right when traveling south.

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Confederate Soldier

was shot here Oct. 14, 1861, as he tried to remove Union flag.

Marker is at the intersection of Bridge Street and 9th Street, on the right when traveling east on Bridge Street.

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Post Headquarters -- JAG

1911-2009

Side 1:

On this site stood Building 5, the first permanent Post HQ building and later the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Building. Built in 1911 as a dairy creamery, it became the Officers' Mess in 1919. In 1924 it became the ...

Kate Burnett

Kate Burnett saved $25,000 in land warrants by hiding them in tall grass behind Land Office.

Marker is on 8th Street near New York Street, on the right when traveling south.

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The Loughran House

Senate House State Historic Site

This Italianate style house was designed by John A. Wood and built in the early 1870s for Dr. Robert Loughran (1834 – 1899) as an office and residence. A surgeon during the Civil War, Dr. ...