In its heyday, from the start of the century until mid-1920’s, this was one of the best known spas, health resorts in the South. Thousands of the sick, the lame, the well came for the curative waters and to enjoy the social activities. Six firms . . . — — Map (db m79175) HM
Earlington founded in 1870 by St. Bernard Coal Co. Named for John Baylis Earle, who discovered No. 11 coal vein not far from this site, in 1869. John Bond Atkinson, the president of St. Bernard Coal, planned free public schools, free public library, . . . — — Map (db m88929) HM
J.W. Million School
Black students went to Earlington Colored School by 1891. Wooden school replaced by brick building in 1905 by St. Bernard Mining Co. on land donated by J.B. Atkinson.
Inspired by Rev. Joseph W. Million, activist and . . . — — Map (db m171876) HM
This town, named for Henry B. Hanson, the civil engineer who planned it, was founded in 1869 and incorporated in 1873. Hanson became bustling tobacco center. "Hanson Twist" tobacco was shipped throughout the U.S. Four costly fires in 1889, 1894, . . . — — Map (db m88955) HM
Original two-room brick building,
unusual in design, was constructed
in 1830 of handmade brick from clay
on farm. It served as a stagecoach
stop between Hopkinsville and
Henderson before completion of
the Evansville, Henderson, and
Nashville . . . — — Map (db m171985) HM
Civil War Confederate irregular troops operated in western Ky. These Partisan Rangers, under Brig. Gen. Adam R. Johnson, fought skirmishes and disrupted Union communications and supply lines. Among Hopkins Countians serving were 2 brothers from . . . — — Map (db m88957) HM
Union troops, 300, ordered to burn CSA Madisonville sympathizers' homes, 1862; withdrew, bluffed by CSA Gen. Adam Johnson and six men. CSA went on to Henderson, crossed river to Newburg, taking medical supplies, arms and rations for the . . . — — Map (db m88948) HM
This wall was originally located at Carlow, on the main Madisonville-Henderson route. It was built by Thomas J. Jackson in 1857 to enclose his stage coach inn, a general store, Masonic Lodge No. 314 and post office. This work of art, reconstructed . . . — — Map (db m88934) HM
For Samuel Hopkins, 1753-1819. On Washington's staff and in many campaigns, War of the Revolution. Came to Ky., 1797, as Transylvania Company agent. In 1799, organized and named judge of first court held in original Henderson County, which included . . . — — Map (db m88939) HM
Gen. Hylan B. Lyon with 800 men invaded Ky., Dec. 1864, to enforce CSA draft law and divert USA from Nashville. In 23 days he burned seven courthouses used by Union forces. See map on reverse side. Courthouse at Madisonville burned Dec. 17. All . . . — — Map (db m88936) HM
CSA Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, on reconnaissance and foraging mission toward the Ohio River Nov. 24 to Dec. 5, 1861, passed here with 300 cavalry on way to Caseyville. There he found large supply of hogs and took some along. After he left, USA . . . — — Map (db m88951) HM
Born Jan. 15, 1869, Madisonville. Began law practice, 1892. Served as chairman of the first Insurance Rating Board, 1912. Circuit Court Judge, 1921-31. While Governor, 1931-35, he reorganized charitable and penal boards; recodified the educational . . . — — Map (db m88785) HM
This property is listed in the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Harvey-Bassett
House
1895 — — Map (db m171899) HM
Munns School was a one-room log structure
named for Eleanor Munns who once owned
the land. The present brick building was
built in 1879 and another room was added
in 1927-28. Munns School, used as a
Hopkins County school and a . . . — — Map (db m171881) HM
Rosenwald High School
Here, Professor C. L. Timberlake established first high school in city for blacks. Rosenwald High School opened in 1932; operated until 1966. Rosenwald Foundation funded its construction. In 1936, basketball team . . . — — Map (db m88950) HM
The home of L. D. Hockersmith, Capt., 10th Ky., Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry, CSA. Hockersmith captured by Federal troops during Morgan's Ohio raid, July 20, 1863. Held with Morgan in Ohio State Prison at Columbus. Helped dig tunnel by which he . . . — — Map (db m88931) HM
Founded in 1868 by Rev. Anthony Bunche, Zion Temple A.M.E. Zion Church is the oldest African-American church in Hopkins Co. It was established in an old log schoolhouse given by abolitionist Hubbard Lunsford. The current site was purchased in 1878. . . . — — Map (db m171905) HM
Here was located 11000 acres
allotted by Virginia, for military
services in the American Revolution,
1777 — 1782
to
Frederick Wilhelm Augustus Heinrich Ferdinand
Baron von Steuben
Lieutenant general in the armies of . . . — — Map (db m172094) HM
Named for the Prussian soldier
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard
Augustin, Baron von Steuben. Born
in 1730, he came to America in
1777 to aid the cause of the
Revolution. Steuben instructed
Washington's army at Valley Forge
and was first . . . — — Map (db m172085) HM
Born in Hopkins Co. on Dec. 4, 1812. He
married Susan Morgan in 1833 and farmed
in Hopkins & Muhlenberg Counties. In
1843, he moved his family to Texas, where
he farmed and drove cattle. In 1861, he
sold his cattle and tried to move . . . — — Map (db m171875) HM
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Cmdr. D. W. "Mush" Morton, USN
This World War II hero spent his early youth & attended elementary school in Nortonville, high school in Madisonville. Graduated from U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., in 1930. Became . . . — — Map (db m88927) HM
