On Radio Road (Kentucky Route 1824) at Roosevelt Road (Kentucky Route 1346), on the right when traveling south on Radio Road.
Two miles west was District seat of Jackson Purchase area 1818, now being Kentucky's eight and Tennessee's twenty westernmost counties. Settled in 1821 and U.S. Public Land Office opened. Calloway County Seat, 1822-1842. Then it was moved to . . . — — Map (db m169133) HM
On Kirksey Road (Kentucky Route 299) 0.2 miles south of Backusburg Road (Kentucky Route 464), on the right when traveling south.
This institution of higher learning was established by 1899 under the leadership of Rainey T. Wells, later president of Murray State Teachers College. Land for college was deeded to trustees in 1899. Students came from a wide area and boarded in . . . — — Map (db m169149) HM
On North 16th Street, 0.1 miles north of Miller Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Murray native Cleanth Brooks became a major figure in the teaching and study of literature. With fellow Kentuckian Robert Penn Warren, he co-founded the Southern Review and directed attention to close reading of literature -- the "New . . . — — Map (db m169171) HM
On Main Street (Kentucky Route 94) at North 4th Street (Business U.S. 641), on the right when traveling east on Main Street.
[Front (north) side] Confederate Soldiers
[Left (west) side] Murray, KY May 1917
[Rear (south) side] Erected by J. N. Williams Chapter UDC
[Right (east) side] In Loving Remembrance — — Map (db m179598) WM
On South 4th Street (Business U.S. 641) just north of Maple Street, on the left when traveling north.
For Col. Richard Callaway. Came to Ky. With Daniel Boone, 1776. One of the founders of Boonesboro, he instilled confidence in success among other settlers. In one year, 1777, appointed Col. Of Militia; Justice of the Peace; elected a representative . . . — — Map (db m151224) HM
Near North 15th Street at Olive Boulevard, on the left when traveling north.
Shortly after the historic U. S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education, et. al. decision, Murray State College "with all deliberate speed," welcomed Mary Ford Holland of Kuttawa, Ky., as a student in the summer of 1955. Holland's . . . — — Map (db m179582) HM
Near Gil Hopson Drive (County Route 1084) 0.3 miles north of Arcadia Circle, on the left when traveling north.
First public building in Jackson Purchase area. Built in 1823 for $100, it was originally erected at Wadesboro, Calloway county seat, 1822-42, where its first session of court was held, Feb. 13, 1823. Remained in use till new one built in 1831. . . . — — Map (db m179560) HM
On North 16th Street at University Drive, on the right when traveling north on North 16th Street.
Established 1922. Founder, Rainey T. Wells (1875-1958). His home, where the idea of the University was born, 350 feet SE of here. Dr. Wells second president of Murray State.
Gov. Morrow signed bill authorizing two "normal schools” — . . . — — Map (db m169173) HM
On North 4th Street (Kentucky Route 2075) 0.2 miles south of Schutz Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Nathan Bowman Stubblefield was born near here in 1860. He successfully demonstrated wireless voice transmission as early as 1892. Patents were granted to him in that year. — — Map (db m179559) HM
On South 4th Street (Business U.S. 41) south of Maple Street, on the left when traveling south.
Under leadership of H. Boyce Taylor, First Baptist Church, Murray, began in 1900 a new approach to church finance. Taylor, pastor 1897-1931, avidly promoted this unified budget plan: appointed chairman of State Baptist committee, 1913, "to consider . . . — — Map (db m169178) HM
On Gil Hopson Drive (County Road 1084) 0.3 miles north of Arcadia Circle, on the right when traveling north.
This one - room school building, named for Joseph Spillman Waters (1822-1898), its first teacher, once sat near New Concord. School operated from mid -1800s to 1936. Moved here, it was preserved as a representative of the type of school building . . . — — Map (db m179562) HM
On North 6th Street at Main Street (Kentucky Route 94), on the left when traveling north on North 6th Street.
103 North Sixth Street
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1900 — — Map (db m179585) HM
Near Fort Heiman Road, 0.6 miles east of Kline Trail, on the left when traveling east.
Two of the ironclad gunboats that attacked Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, were among several designed by Samuel S. Pook for the U.S. War Department in 1861. They were called "Pook Turtles" because their sloping rectangular sides, called casemates, . . . — — Map (db m231256) HM
On Fort Heiman Road south of County Road 1242D4, on the left when traveling south.
Mounds of earth atop this high bluff are the remains of Confederate Fort Heiman. Its commanding view of the Tennessee River made it ideal to support the low-lying, flood-prone Fort Henry across the river. Confederate Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, then . . . — — Map (db m173073) HM
On Fort Heiman Road south of County Road 1242D4, on the left when traveling south.
In late October 1864 Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and 3,500 Confederate cavalrymen used Fort Heiman as a base to attack Union supply vessels on the Tennessee River. After placing several artillery pieces along this bluff, Forrest's troopers . . . — — Map (db m173070) HM
Near Fort Heiman Road, 0.6 miles east of Kline Trail, on the left when traveling east.
Fort Heiman is part of Fort Donelson National Battlefield. Named for Confederate Col. Adolphus Heiman who commanded the fort's 1,000-man garrison, Fort Heiman was a small, irregular earthen fortification built here atop Stewart's Hill on the . . . — — Map (db m173038) HM
On State Highway 121 at Cypress Trail, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 121.
Confederate fort erected in 1861. Federals occupied 1862. Seized by CSA Gen. Forrest in fall 1864. With field cannon his cavalrymen sank 2 Union river transports. Captured another and a gunboat, and commandeered them. Due east, this side of Kentucky . . . — — Map (db m37939) HM
On State Highway 121 at Cypress Trail, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 121.
Gerard Furnace Built 2¼ miles east in 1854 by Browder, Kentucky and Co. Inside it was 24ft. high and 10½ ft. across at widest point, burning locally made charcoal fuel. Its air blast machinery was powered by steam. In 34 weeks of 1857, it . . . — — Map (db m37941) HM
Near Fort Heiman Road, 0.6 miles east of Kline Trail, on the left when traveling east.
Fort Heiman, in which you are standing, was built almost entirely by slaves from Mississippi and Alabama. Slaves, as well as white laborers pressed into Confederate service, helped to build all three forts guarding the Tennessee and Cumberland . . . — — Map (db m173046) HM
On Fort Heiman Road, 0.1 miles east of Kline Trail, on the left when traveling east.
After Confederate forces abandoned Fort Heiman in February 1862, Federal troops occupied it until March 6, 1863. The fort was strengthened and became a major supply depot for Union troops and gunboats. A new fortification (Federal Fort) was also . . . — — Map (db m173033) HM
