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Camp Nelson National Monument, formerly the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park, is a 525-acre (2.12 km 2) national monument, historical museum and park located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, United States, 20 miles (32 km) south of Lexington, Kentucky. The American Civil War era camp was established in 1863 as a depot for the Union ...
The Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, [4] also referred to as the Kentucky Historical Society, [5] is the headquarters for the KHS. A multimillion-dollar museum and research facility, the center features both permanent and temporary exhibitions, a research library, and a gift shop. The center contains an exhibition called "A Kentucky ...
Owsley Brown Frazier was a wealthy businessman and philanthropist in Louisville. [4] [8] When a tornado struck the city during the 1974 Super Outbreak, it destroyed Frazier's home, and a rare Kentucky long rifle that he owned – a family heirloom made for his great-great-grandfather in Bardstown in the 1820s and gifted to him by his grandfather in 1952 – disappeared. [9]
Kentucky Women Remembered. Kentucky Women Remembered is an exhibit in the Kentucky State Capitol that honors the contributions of women from the Commonwealth. The exhibit consists of over 60 watercolor portraits of outstanding Kentucky women. The Kentucky Commission on Women receives nominations and selects two to four honorees each year to be ...
McCreary. South Central Kentucky. Mining. Open-air museum includes museum, barber shop, bath house, doctor's office, machine shop, mining motor displays, school/church house, 1890s reconstructed log cabin and mine tour. Behringer-Crawford Museum. Covington. Kenton. Northern Kentucky. Local history.
The Lexington History Center once housed several independent history museums in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It was located in the former Fayette County Courthouse until 2012 when the city closed the building for renovation. [1] Prior to the closing of the building, the Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum moved to a new location on Georgetown Street.
Curator. Angela Donner. Website. www.bigsandyheritage.com. The Big Sandy Heritage Center Museum is located in Pikeville, Kentucky. The museum was housed in the old Chesapeake and Ohio Depot until 2015, when it moved to the 4th floor of the Judicial Annex in downtown Pikeville. [1] The museum portrays the people, places, and events that makes ...
Deb Miller, Preston County History Day volunteer, said there are eight historical sites with free tours available to visit this year. Old Hemlock, near Brandonville, will be open Sept. 15 only ...