On West Main Street (State Road 2200) at Center Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
These are soldiers from
Breckinridge County who
died in defense of their country
World War I
George W. Ahl • Johnie Brown • Corbett J. Burch • Walter V. Burnett • Claude E. Cundiff • Earl Curry • Roy Dowell • Henry H. Drane • Joseph Z. . . . — — Map (db m160275) WM
On West Main Street (State Road 2200) at Center Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
Dedicated
to all veterans of
Cloverport, Kentucky
to the honor and
glory of those who
bravely served to
keep our country
a land of freedom — — Map (db m160274) WM
On West Main Street (State Road 2200) at Oak Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
Cloverport, an important shipping point beginning in 1798 when Joe Houston came from Va.: built home and started trading and shipping business. Flatboats carried Ky. tobacco, other goods for sale in New Orleans. Boats sold as lumber. Men came back . . . — — Map (db m160276) HM
On West Main Street (Kentucky Route 2200) east of Center Street, on the right when traveling west.
Coal oil first produced here 1851. Plant built 1857, reputed first of kind in world. Mine known for extensive veins of cannel coal. Coal loaded here, exported to England via New Orleans for gas manufacture. English-owned with Prince of Wales (King . . . — — Map (db m119795) HM
On West Main Street (Kentucky Route 2200) at Center Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
Abraham Lincoln, then a lad of 7, with other members of the Thomas Lincoln family crossed the Ohio River on a log raft ferry near here in 1816. The Lincolns were moving to Indiana. — — Map (db m119796) HM
On West Street at Verden Street, on the right when traveling west on West Street.
Four miles south. A fashionable health resort of 1840s which had the unique attraction of a 100-foot cliff from which tar bubbled while from its base flowed eleven springs, each with different type of mineral water. Indians knew and used these . . . — — Map (db m160289) HM