Confederate Hospitals

Thousands of Confederate soldiers were patients at Foard Hospital on this site between August and December 1864. Following a disastrous fire and explosion on August 31, the patients were evacuated to the homes of townspeople and to the country; later ...

Site of Col. Thomas Cadmus House

1763

General George Washington

stopped here July 9, 1778

after the Battle of Monmouth on

his journey to New York State.

Original stones were used

on the present structure.

Bloomfield Sesqui-Centennial

1812 - 1962

Marker is at the intersection of Washington Steet and Ashland Avenue, on the right when ...

Paducah's Riverfront

Paducah's Riverfront was a critical break-in-bulk point on the nation's inland waterways system. Cargo from deeper draft vessels, as well as passengers and mail, would be loaded and unloaded on to packet boats that ran regular routes on the Tennessee, ...

The Peter Dise House

The Peter Dise House is one of the oldest on the island and was moved from the "Uppards," the now unoccupied marsh north of the harbor.

There were originally four fresh water wells on the island, two on Maine Ridge, one ...

The Doctor's House

The Doctor's House was owned consecutively by doctors Samuel Oglesby, William Daisey, Bache Gill, and Charles Gladstone. Dr. Gladstone never lived there, but boarded next door in the Sidney Crockett House.

Dr. Gladstone's former office still faces the back yard of ...

Methodist Parsonage

The Methodist Parsonage, the home of the resident Reverend and his family, was erected in 1887. It is the only house on the island with a basement and the first to have an indoor bathroom.

It was the first house ...

Visitors Coming to Paducah

Visitors coming to Paducah by boat in the early part of the twentieth~century would have been greeted by the hustle and bustle of a riverfront lined with hotels, warehouses, packet boat offices, lumber yards, supply houses, iron foundries, maritime industries ...

Irvington World War I Memorial

To our departed comrades who served their country during the Great World War

Fred D. Mason

Died in Germany

Aug. 20, 1921

Robert H. Barker

Died in Service

Nov. 14, 1918

A separate bronze plaque reads:

Rebuilt in May 1988 as an Eagle Scout Project of Ashley Lewis ...

St. Clair's Defeat / Fort Recovery

St. Clair's Defeat

300 ft. north, 900 ft. west, General St. Clair's army met its crushing defeat by the Indians on November 4, 1791.

Fort Recovery

Built on the same spot in 1793, by General Wayne.

Marker is on North Elm Street (Ohio Route ...

Site of Richmond College

These gateways

erected by the Trustees

as a memorial to the

Founders of Richmond College

mark the site

of the Institution

1834 - 1914

Marker is at the intersection of Lombardy Street and Grace Street on Lombardy Street.

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