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The Downtown Greensburg Historic District in Greensburg, Kentucky, the county seat of Green County, is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. It consists of 47 contributing properties. Greensburg was founded in 1794. The town site was originally called Glover's Station, named after its founder John Glover in 1779.
Location of Green County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Green County, Kentucky.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Green County, Kentucky, United States.
Main St., Greensburg, Kentucky 37°15′38″N 85°30′06″W / 37.26053°N 85.50163°W / 37.26053; -85.50163 ( Greensburg Courthouse "Old Courthouse Oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains .
The Court Clerk's Office-County & Circuit, on East Court St. in Greensburg, Kentucky, was built in 1818. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] It is Federal in style, and was built of dry stone construction, the best building method available during Kentucky's settlement period. The building served as the clerk ...
A public hanging in Greensburg on September 21, 1841, attracted a crowd recorded at 10,000 people. Two other men who were convicted of the same crime - robbery and murder - died in their jail cell. (1) The country's first known serial killers, Big Harpe and Little Harpe, murdered a twelve-year-old Green County boy in 1799. (1)
Dec. 4—Jurors called to the Westmoreland County Courthouse looking for some grub Monday didn't have to brave the weather to get a meal. Caffe Market Express, a new restaurant on the Upper Park ...
Served as Stephen Foster's inspiration for the song My Old Kentucky Home; built 1795; Fielding Bradford House (Scott County) Foster Sanford House, aka Lady Burlington (Burlington, Kentucky) – Grand Federal Style with Greek Revival c. 1831; Francis M. Stafford House (Paintsville) – Home of John Stafford, a founder of Paintsville.
A small, tight-knit southeast Kentucky community has been reeling after their sheriff was arrested for the killing of a prominent district judge in his chambers Thursday – spurring residents to ...