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Johnson's Chapel AME Church is a historic church on E. High Street in Springfield, Kentucky. It was built in 1872 and added to the National Register in 1989. [1] It was built by church member and builder Wilse McElroy. The church congregation was formed before the Civil War.
Beechfork Presbyterian Church (also Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church) is a historic church near Springfield, Kentucky.. The church was built in 1836 by a Presbyterian congregation that had organized three years earlier, made up of families centered along the Beech Fork north of Springfield.
Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
Springfield, noted by filmmakers as Hollywood South, is the site of Kentucky's first and only movie sound stage. The Springfield Bonded Film Complex came about as a part of the burgeoning film industry in Kentucky, ushered in by the state's film tax credit. This tax credit has the distinction as the most generous in the nation. [7]
The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...
The Springfield Presbytery was an independent presbytery that became one of the earliest expressions of the Stone-Campbell Movement.It was composed of Presbyterian ministers who withdrew from the jurisdiction of the Kentucky Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America on September 10, 1803.
The St. Catherine of Sienna Convent is a historic convent in Springfield, Kentucky. It was built in 1904-05 and added to the National Register in 1989. [1] It is a three-and-a-half-story brick with stone trim building with pedimented pavilions at center and ends. It was designed by architect Frank Brewer in Classical Revival style. A chapel was ...
Its county seat is Springfield. [2] The county is named for George Washington. [3] Washington County was the first county formed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky when it reached statehood, and the sixteenth county formed. [4] The center of population of Kentucky is located in Washington County, in the city of Willisburg. [5]