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Historic Sites

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

From key battlefields such as Perryville and Mill Springs to the birthplaces of presidents of both the Union (Abraham Lincoln at Hodgenville) and Confederacy (Jefferson Davis at Fairview), Kentucky is a rich repository of history related to the American Civil War. Kentucky was caught in the middle of the epic battle that preserved the nation, and touring these and other sites will reveal the important role the state played in this historic conflict.

Other facets of American history come alive when you visit places like Cumberland Gap, where Daniel Boone and others blazed trails that allowed expansion of a young nation; Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, where a utopian community formed in the mid-19th century; and Stearns Mining & Lumber Co. in the Daniel Boone National Forest, which portrays life in the many towns that sprang up in Kentucky coal country to supply the fuel that powered the nation’s emergence as an industrial power.

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EDMONSON COUNTY COURT HOUSE AND WAR MONUMENT
Brownsville, KY
www.cavesandlake.com

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Rabbit Hash, KY
www.rabbithash.com

The General Store Lives On!In a world that seems to be changing constantly, the Rabbit Hash General Store is a heaping slice of Americana from another era. A working genera...

Paducah, KY
www.riverdiscoverycenter.org

A Save America's Treasures project housed in downtown's oldest standing structure. State of the art, interactive exhibits, including a new pilothouse simulator which allows...

Louisville, KY
www.riverside-landing.org
The centerpiece of this 300-acre historic site is an 1837 Kentucky "I-House" known as the Farnsley-Moremen House. Located on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River, the site al...
Franklin, KY

The Sandford Duncan Inn is probably the oldest remaining structure in Simpson County.  It is thought to have been built about 1818 in what was then Logan County. Simps...

Franklin, KY
www.simpsoncountykyarchives.com
Located in the historic district of Franklin, the Old Stone Jail, built in 1879 and used until 1986, offers tours that give you a glimpse of what pioneer justice was like. The...
Covington, KY
www.covcathedral.com

Closed for eight months in 2001 for a $4.7 million restoration, St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption has reopened. The 100-year-old cathedral, the principal chur...

Frankfort, KY
www.governorsmansion.ky.gov
The official Governor's residence since 1914, the Beaux Arts mansion, constructed of native limestone, was modeled after the Petit Trianon, Marie Antoinette's summer villa. To...
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