Historical Markers and War Memorials in Murray, Kentucky
Murray is the county seat for Calloway County
Murray is in Calloway County
Calloway County(22) ► ADJACENT TO CALLOWAY COUNTY Graves County(17) ► Marshall County(14) ► Trigg County(28) ► Henry County, Tennessee(28) ► Stewart County, Tennessee(91) ►
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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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
