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AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAVELER HERITAGE Guide t o Historic Sites in By Molly Marcot

Two historic trails, the Wilderness Bull Nelson on the site of this 62-acre Civil War Road and Boone’s Trace, began here park. The grounds contain the 1825 Battlefields and and were traveled by more than 200,000 Pleasant View house, which became settlers between 1775 and 1818. In a Confederate hospital after the battle, 1. Middle Creek nearby , the Mountain Life slave quarters, and walking trails. One National Battlefield Museum features a recreated 19th- mile north is the visitors center in the On this site in early 1862, volunteer Union century village with seven buildings, 1811 Rogers House, with displays that soldiers led by future president Col. James such as the loom house and barn, include a laser-operated aerial map of Garfield forced Brig. Gen. Humphrey which feature 18th-century pioneer the battle and a collection of 19th- Marshall’s 2,500 Confederates from the tools, rifles, and farm equipment. century guns. (859) 624-0013 or forks of Middle Creek and back to McHargue’s Mill, a half-mile south, visitorcenter.madisoncountyky.us/index.php . The 450-acre park hosts battle first began operating in 1817. Visitors reenactments during September. Two half- can watch cornmeal being ground and see mile trail loops of the original armies’ posi - more than 50 millstones. (606) 330-2130 Plantations tions provide views of Kentucky valleys. parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/lj www.middlecreek.org or and

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of walking paths, contains a memorial In late August 1862, Confederates under artifacts, such as their china, law books, A B E to the October 3, 1786, massacre of 24 Maj. Gen. E. Kirby Smith defeated a and racing purses. The 17-acre grounds I M A west-going pioneers by Indians. commanded by Maj. Gen. feature English-style formal gardens and J Touch outbuildings, such as the dairy cellar and and smokehouse. (859) 266-8581 or Early Politics History www.henryclay.org the Bourbon Trail

8. Bluegrass Heritage 12. Liberty Hall Historic Site Museum This four-acre complex, situated on the This three-floor museum in the 1894 banks of the in down- Guerrant Clinic building focuses on the town Frankfort, contains two restored history of the , so named Federal-style political estates: the 1796 after the -blossomed grass species that Liberty Hall, built by Sen. John Brown; grows here in profusion. features displays and the 1835 Orlando Brown House, on the Eskippakithiki Indians, the founding which belonged to his son. A 75-minute of the Western and Wilderness tour explores both homes, and show- Road, the Civil War, and the cases such artifacts as a 19th-century industry. The South Central gallery Stoddard piano. Visitors can learn about contains a 1910 “Bull’s Eye” switchboard Margaret Wise Brown, Sen. Brown’s great- Pioneer settlements, Civil War and phone booth, while the military great-granddaughter and a renowned reenactments, The Vietnam War gallery has World War II uniforms from author of children’s fiction. Trails lead Memorial, and a variety of antique shops the Army and Navy. (859) 745-1358 or through the boxwood and perennial so just about everyone can take a piece of www.bgheritage.com gardens to the riverfront. (502) 227-2560 the past home. See, hear, feel, and touch or www.libertyhall.org history in Lexington’s Bluegrass Region. 9. Fort Boonesborough State Park 13. Kentucky Historical In April 1775, Daniel Boone and fellow Society History Campus explorers crossed the Kentucky River Located in downtown Frankfort, the and founded Fort Boonesborough on campus includes the Kentucky Military this site. The 153-acre park contains Museum, housed within the 1850 Old a reconstructed working fort with State Arsenal, which contains artifacts 1-800-225-8747 (BG 5) cabins and blockhouses. Costumed from two centuries of war. Five blocks www.bluegrasskentucky.com interpreters demonstrate 18th-century northwest lies the two-story Greek-Revival weaving, blacksmithing, and candle- Old State Capitol building that features making techniques. (859) 527-3131 or hour-long tours through the recreated parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks 1850s House and Senate chambers and law library. Also on the campus is the 10. White Hall State 167,000-square-foot Thomas D. Clark AUTHENTIC. Historic Site Center for Kentucky History, which This 1799 Italianate mansion south explores Kentucky’s past from Paleoindian AMERICAN. of the Kentucky River was home to times to the present. (502) 564-1792 or Cassius Marcellus Clay, an abolitionist history.ky.gov ADVENTURE. newspaper publisher, and his daughter, , a women’s suffragist. 14. Costumed interpreters lead 60-minute Kentucky’s oldest bourbon distillery has • Downtown on National guided tours through the 44-room house, occupied this site since 1812. A two-hour Register of Historic Places which contains Victorian-era furnishings guided historic tour begins in the visitors and 12 bedrooms. (859) 623-9178 or center and leads through the distillery and • Civil War & Cemetery & parks.ky.gov/findparks/histparks/wh the 1890 limestone warehouse, where Historic Home Tours wooden casks of bourbon are aged. The 11. Aviation Museum • Bluegrass Heritage Museum docents reveal details about copper-pot of Kentucky distillation methods and the sour-mash & Library Genealogy Room This 12,000-square-foot museum, fermentation process. (859) 879-1812 or located in a hangar on Lexington’s Blue www.woodfordreserve.com Grass Airport, has displays on six military and 14 civilian aircraft from every era of 15. Camp Nelson Civil America’s aviation history. Highlights War Heritage Park include a Navy F-14 Tomcat, Marine From 1863 to 1866, this 525-acre site on Corps F-4 Phantom fighter, and an Air the Kentucky River served as a 4,000-acre Affordable accommodations Force T-83 supersonic trainer. Visitors Union supply depot and parade ground in a city which dates from 1793; can also view the engine collection, which where 10,000 former slaves trained to Nearby Fort Boonesborough features a General Electric CF6 turbofan, become soldiers. Visitors can take 30- pre-dates the American and ride in an original Army helicopter minute guided tours of the restored 1855 Revolution. flight simulator. (859) 231-1219 or House. The 6,000-square-foot inter - www.aviationky.org pretive center, located at the entrance to (800) 298-9105 www.tourwinchester.com KY 64 AMERICAN HERITAGE Reader Service Listing

American Heritage makes choosing heritage travel 13. Convention & Visitors Bureau of Marion County, : destinations, products, services, and great reading easier A century’s worth of historical adventure. Contact us for a FREE with FREE INFORMATION from participating advertisers Visitors Guide. www.officialtravelfairmont.info who want your business. Please complete and mail the 14. Miners & Millionaires (Mercer County, West Virginia): postage-paid card today! Discover America’s Coal Story! Dig into the history of coal 1. All Advertisers in this issue: Please select this number for more in the millionaire’s town of Bramwell, WV. Join us today! information from all participating advertisers throughout this issue (800) 221-3206, www.visitmercercounty.com including the Guide to Historic Sites in Kentucky. 15. Pocahontas County CVB and Greenbrier County Guide to Historic Sites in Kentucky CVB, West Virginia: Discover the battles of Lewisburg 2. All Advertisers in Kentucky Historic Guide: For more and Droop Mountain—two engagements that influenced information from all advertisers in the Kentucky Historic Guide Virginia/West Virginia history. (800) 336-7009, please choose this one, or you may select individually from the www.naturesmountainplayground.com list below. 16. Tourism: To discover more about Tennessee and 3. Bowling Green Area Convention & Visitors Bureau: Bowling to order your FREE official Tennessee Vacation Guide, visit Green is bursting with rich history! From the Kentucky Museum tnvaction.com or call 800-GO2-TENN. to Lost River , Bowling Green delights all interests. For more 17. WV Eastern Gateway (Jefferson County, West Virginia): information please visit www.visitbgky.com , (800) 326-7465. George family, Lewis & Clark, John Brown and the 4. Frankfort Tourist Commission: Visit Frankfort Kentucky! Civil War; discover them all in Jefferson County, West Virginia’s Experience the history and heritage of Kentucky’s ! Eastern Gateway. (866) HELLO-WV, www.WVeasterngateway.com www.visitfrankfort.com , (800) 960-7200. 18. West Virginia State Parks: West Virginia’s state parks and 5. Harrodsburg, KY: Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, a national forests offer a variety of attractions, accommodations, facilities, historic landmark depicting America’s best-known Utopian history and events. (800) CALL-WVA, www.wvstateparks.com religious group; Old Fort Harrod State Park. 19. West Virginia Tourism: www.harrodsburgky.com , (800) 355-9192. Getaway to West Virginia and experience rich history and heritage along with breathtaking 6. Kentucky Department of Travel: Experience our unbridled scenery. www.wvtourism.com spirit! Ride on over to Kentucky where a variety of unique and affordable family fun awaits you. www.kentuckytourism.com Education & Media 20. Constituting America: 7. Lexington’s Bluegrass Region: Our is to educate America’s Bluegrass history is more youth about the importance of the U.S. Constitution and the exciting than fiction! History remains alive in our restored freedoms and rights it sets forth. ConstitutingAmerica.org and rebuilt forts, re-enacted battles, preserved churches and historic homes. bluegrasskentucky.com , (800) 225-8747 (ask for 21. Rosetta Stone: Rosetta Stone ® is available in over 30 extension BG5). languages and will have you speaking during the first lesson! 8. Lexington Convention & Visitors Bureau: Learning a language is fast, easy and effective with Rosetta Visit Lexington today Stone ®. (877) 394-5947 and discover the rich tradition of horses, history, and bourbon while enjoying the unexpected surprises of the Bluegrass. 22. White House Historical Association: Provides funding for the www.visitlex.com , (800) 845-3959. preservation of the public rooms of the White House, and furthers the association educational goals. (800) 555-2451, 9. Winchester, KY: Fort Boonesboro; Civil War and Daniel Boone www.WhiteHouseHistory.org sites; The Bluegrass Museum; historic homes and downtown on the National Register of Historic Places. www.tourwinchester.com , Publications (800) 298-9105 23. Impressed! Historical novel explores the causes of the War of 1812impressed.com U.S. Travel and Tourism 1812 through the story of a couple. 10. Gettysburg, PA: Relive the history; experience the passion of 24. National Geographic: Publishers of American and world Civil War history on the battlefield and in the historic town of history books, available wherever books are sold or visit Gettysburg, . (800) 337-5015, www.Gettysburg.travel shopng.com/books 11. Hilton Head Island: Explore Hilton Head Island’s West African 25. War on the Run: Visit www.warontherun.com or select this cultural roots through Sea Island Gullah culture. Order your free number for more information about War on the Run, The Epic Gullah Heritage Guide. www.hiltonheadisland.org Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier by John F. Ross. 12. Independence, MO Tourism Department: 20 attractions including the Harry S. Truman Library & Home, Victorian If the card is missing, please mail your request to mansions, and the National Frontier Trails Museum. Great American Heritage Reader Service, 416 Hungerford Drive, shopping, restaurants and lodging; minutes from City. Suite 216, Rockville, MD 20850-4127 (800) 810-4700, www.VisitIndependence.com/AH the park, contains a recreated refugee dressing room where visitors can don garden and visitors center with an exhibit shanty, hospital ward, and quartermaster 21st-century jockey silks. A 30-minute on Clark’s military career and a recreated depot. The park is crisscrossed by six miles guided tour of the surveyor’s office. (502) 897-9845 or of interpretive trails. (859) 881-5716 or racetrack begins in the museum lobby. www.locustgrove.org www.campnelson.org (502) 637-7097 or www.derbymuseum.org 23. My Old Kentucky 16. Shaker Village 20. Center Home State Park of Pleasant Hill This 96,000-square-foot museum and Pennsylvanian songwriter Stephen Foster This 3,000-acre park contains 34 original learning facility contains artifacts such as wrote his 1852 ballad, “My Old Kentucky buildings from the Shaker village founded the boxer’s Rolls Royce, a robe given to Home,” while visiting this 1818 Georgian here in 1805. Visitors can tour a typical him by Elvis Presley, and the torch he mansion, which was named Federal Hill family home, farmhouse, craft shop, and carried in the 1996 Olympics. and was the home of his cousin Sen. John meetinghouse. Costumed interpreters play Visitors can participate in an interactive Rowan. Costumed interpreters lead 30- period musical instruments and demon - arena, view a 13-minute film on minute guided tours through six rooms, strate 19th-century weaving and wood - Ali’s career, which is shown in a theater including the working techniques. (800) 734-5611 or shaped like a boxing ring, and learn about www.shakervillageky.org his impact on the civil rights movement. (502) 584-9254 or www.alicenter.org 17. Old Fort Harrod State Park Frontiersman founded 21. Louisville Slugger Kentucky’s first permanent settlement Museum and Factory in 1774 on this site. Visitors to this The Hillerich and Bradsby Company has 15-acre park can tour 15 reconstructed manufactured the famous “Louisville fort buildings, including cabins, school - Slugger” bats since 1884. Forty-minute house, and militia blockhouse. The guided tours lead through the main onsite Mansion Museum contains Civil factory, as docents War guns and artifacts of the Adena explain how , who lived here in 200 B.C. The billets of Lincoln Marriage Temple, houses the log wood from cabin where Lincoln’s parents were married in 1806. Costumed interpreters demonstrate blacksmithing, woodworking, and weaving techniques inside the palisaded fort. (859) 734-3314 or parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/fh

18. Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site On October 2, 1862, Union Maj. Gen. Pennsylvania forests are sorted, bats parlor and library. Visitors can take ’s 16,000 men defeated are shaped and stained. Visitors can self-guided tours of the 295-acre Confederate Gen. ’s 22,000- try out replica bats used by the grounds, which contain the family man force at the battle of Perryville on Yankees’ Mickey Mantle and other cemetery, smokehouse, kitchen, carriage this site. Today visitors can take a seven- legendary players. An adjoining house, and gardens. (502) 348-3502 or mile, self-guided walking tour of the battle - 15,000-square-foot museum includes parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/mo field and see the Crawford House, which an exhibit on the Negro League and served as Bragg’s headquarters and now contains the gloves of Satchel Paige of 24. Abraham Lincoln Birth - houses a museum containing Confederate the Indians and Willie Mays of place National Historic Site uniforms, firearms, and cavalry artifacts. America’s 16th president was born in a www.perryvillebattlefield.org the San Francisco Giants. (877) 775-8443 (859) 332-8631 or or www.sluggermuseum.org log cabin in 1809 on this site, then called Sinking Spring farm, and now a 345-acre 22. park. A full-scale replica of the cabin , Presidents James Monroe, Andrew Jack - stands inside the Memorial Building at Lincoln, and Baseball son, and Zachary visited this 1790 the entrance of the park. The visitors Georgian estate, home to explorer William center displays exhibits on pioneer life 19. Museum Clark’s sister Lucy Croghan. Sixty-minute and artifacts, such as their This two-floor, 56,000-square-foot guided tours lead through the home’s bible. Located nine miles northeast in museum celebrates the 135-year history of period-furnished rooms, which contain Athertonville is the 228-acre Knob Creek the Kentucky Derby, the Clark family portraits, furniture, and silver Lincoln family farm, which includes the horse race that occurs every May. Twelve tea service, as well as outbuildings that 1800 Gollaher Cabin, the residence of exhibits explore horse breeding, racing, include the kitchen, smokehouse, spring - Lincoln’s friend Austin Gollaher, and a and Derby fashion. Interactive exhibits house, and barn. The 55-acre grounds tavern from the early 20th century. include a racetrack caller booth and a feature an 18th-century, Federal-style (270) 358-3137 or www.nps.gov/abli

KY 66 AMERICAN HERITAGE local history. Displays include a recreated slave cabin, general store, and Union bivouac. An original 1830s log cabin, which contains reproduction furnishings, tools, and clothes, is located on the two-acre grounds. (270) 745-2592 or www.wku.edu/library/museum

Caves and Railroads 26. Historic Railpark 28. House and Gardens and Train Museum This 1854 colonial-Greek-Revival brick This three-acre Bowling Green depot, mansion and surrounding four-acre estate 25. Mammoth Cave which was restored in 1925, served as was owned by four generations of the National Park a train station on the L&N rail line, In the late 18th century, white settlers Smith-Garrett family, who founded and which ran between Birmingham and discovered an abudance of saltpeter, ran the St. Louis-based International Louisville from 1858 to 1979. The 4,000- an ingredient of gunpowder in this cave Shoe Company. Costumed interpreters square-foot exhibit space showcases L&N system, which is the most extensive series of lead visitors on 45-minute tours through passenger, sleeper, and dining cars, as well natural passageways in the world. The cave nine rooms with original furnishings. Tours as the city’s first locomotive diesel engine. became an important source of saltpeter of the outbuildings, such as the 1844 One display features a recreated segre - during the . Later it drew Ratiff log gunsmith shop and the carriage gated waiting room and interpretive panels tourists and tuberculosis patients, the latter house, are self-guided. (270) 365-3114 or that explore the role of minorities in North www.adsmore.org hoping for a cure in the cave’s allegedly American railroad history. Visitors can regenerative air. Two-hour historic cave see five restored railcars, including a post tours travel 300 feet underground through Homes of Famous office car and caboose. (270) 745-7317 or the narrow passageway Fat Man’s Misery, www.historicrailpark.com Kentuckians up Mammoth Dome, and across a bridge spanning the 105-foot-deep Bottomless Pit. 27. Kentucky Museum 29. John James Audubon Z L A The surrounding 52,800-acre park features Located on the Western Kentucky Univer - State Park W N I scenic bluffs, springs, and historic attrac - sity campus, this two-floor museum Painter and naturalist John James T R A

M tions, such as the train engine No. 4 and its features exhibits on early Kentucky immi - Audubon moved to Henderson in 1810, Y B coach from the railroad during the late grants, the Shakers’ influence on local attracted to the ’s rich biological P A M 1800s. (270) 758-2180 or www.nps.gov/maca culture, and the role of the Civil War in diversity of trees and wildflowers. Today

KY 67 this 692-acre park features 6.5 miles of 31. Fordsville L&N Depot walking trails and a museum, which Community Museum contains the largest collection of This restored 1916 train depot, Audubon’s work in the world, including which served the Louisville & original watercolors, oils, and copper plate Nashville and Central lines, prints from his four-book Elephant folio, contains a 2,200-square-foot museum The Birds of America . (270) 826-2247 or of local history. Visitors can walk through parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/au a recreated early 20th-century loading dock, baggage room, station room, and 30. Historic Henderson waiting rooms. (270) 276-5400 or With the help of explorer Daniel Boone, www.trainweb.org/fordsvilledepot judge Col. Richard Henderson and the Transylvania 32. Home Place Company bought the land on this site Bluegrass artist Bill Monroe, whose hits from the Southern tribe in include “Kentucky 1797. The town that grew up here Waltz” and “Scotland,” became prosperous from the tobacco grew up in this 1917 industry. A self-guided tour leads through wooden frame home the 33-block historic district filled with on the 930-acre

restored 19th and early 20th-century Jerusalem Ridge , AMERICAN CIVIL W,AR buildings, that include the oldest public homestead farm. 150th Anniversary building in town, a library which features 1861-1865 Visitors can take a 30-foot-tall rotunda ceiling decorated a 30-minute with classical murals and a restored stained guided tour of the U A Y E T glass skylight. Visitors can also see the living room, R N U U B O

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On the 150th anniversary of the start of the , we invite you to commemorate this legacy by visiting Lexington’s Bluegrass Region’s battlefields, reenactments, historic homes, museums, and exhibits.

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       4 2 ) 0 s + E N T U C K Y 4O U R I S M  C O M the Marquis de Lafayette. (270) 443-7759 and HarrodsburG Steamboats or www.markethousemuseum.com founded 1774 Western Campaigns k e n t u c k y 35. Columbus-Belmont 33. River Discovery Center State Park This former 1843 bank houses a 10,000- In late 1861 and early 1862, 15,000 square-foot museum devoted to the Confederate troops at Fort DeRussy history of the steamboat industry on under Gen. Gideon J. Pillow endured the Ohio and Tennessee rivers. The a four-month siege by a Union force museum features 14 exhibits with interac - commanded by Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. tive displays, including a pilothouse simula - Grant before surrendering. On this 156- tor with a wheel and model of a dredge acre site an 1850s wooden farmhouse used to open up sections of the river to contains a museum with battle artifacts. steamboat travel. (270) 575-9958 or Outside the house stands a six-ton anchor www.riverdiscoverycenter.org that the Confederates used to secure a mile-long, ship-fouling great chain 34. • Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill – a National across the . (270) 677-2327 Historic Landmark; experience a living history site Market House Museum or parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/cb depicting America’s best-known Utopian religious The Dubois-Robertson drugstore group; accommodations in original restored buildings opened at this site in 1876. The 36. • Old Fort Harrod State Park – full-scale replica current building, which dates from State Historic Site fort where costumed “pioneers” bring our early 1905, houses a 4,800-square-foot This 26-acre site contains one rounded history to life museum of Paducah history, which is and two platform-shaped mounds left by • Mansion Museum – Civil War artifacts, a gun display, Native American artifacts and collection of named for town-founder and the Mississippian who built a civi - Lincoln memorabilia explorer William Clark. lization in the central southeast part of • Historic Downtown – Genealogy & History Library Exhibits include the 1877 List drugstore Kentucky between 1100 and 1350 C.E. • Beaumont Inn – Kentucky’s oldest family-operated with original gingerbread woodwork, a An onsite museum explores Mississippian country inn 1913 motorized LaFrance fire truck, a culture through exhibits on burial practices life-size wooden statue of Sen. Henry Clay, and architectural techniques and displays 19th-century city maps, and Clark family of artifacts including stone tools, pottery, 800-355-9192 artifacts, such as an Old Paris porcelain and shell implements. (270) 335-3681 or www.harrodsburgky.com vase, which was a wedding present from parks.ky.gov/findparks/histparks/wm

Tour the Trace, then taste the world’s fi nest bourbon. Voted the 2010 Whisky Visitor Attraction of the Year by Whisky Magazine, offers tours Monday through Saturday. Experience a century-old aging y. warehouse, learn the history of the Trace and visit the hand-bottling hall.

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