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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. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Greensburg is located east of the center of Green County at (37.259665, -85.497863), [6] on the north side of the Green River, a west-flowing tributary of the Ohio U.S. Route 68 passes through the city as Main Street; it leads northeast 11 miles (18 km) to Campbellsville and southwest 25 miles (40 km) to Edmonton.
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.
The Red River Gorge lies within the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. The forest maintains 706,000 acres while the Red River Gorge consists of 29,000 acres of rugged terrain inside of it.
The Green River Shell Middens Archeological District is a historic district composed of archaeological sites in the U.S. state of Kentucky. All of the district's sites are shell middens along the banks of the Green River that date from the later portion of the Archaic period . [ 2 ]
Green County was formed in 1792 from portions of Lincoln and Nelson Counties. [2] Green was the 16th Kentucky county in order of formation. [3] The county is named for Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene, but the reason why the final E is missing is unknown.
All rivers in Kentucky flow to the Mississippi River, nearly all by virtue of flowing to its major tributary, the Ohio River. Also listed are some important tributaries to the few Kentucky rivers that originate in, or flow through, other states.
The Green River is a 384-mile-long (618 km) [3] tributary of the Ohio River that rises in Lincoln County in south central Kentucky. Tributaries of the Green River include the Barren River, the Nolin River, the Pond River and the Rough River. The river was named after Nathanael Greene, a general of the American Revolutionary War. [4]