This historical marker marks the location of the Mystery Cemetery located on KY 245 near KY 1604. Decades-old graveyard discovered near here. Graves, with unmarked headstones, believed to be those of itinerant railroad workers struck down by cholera epidemic during the construction of the Bardstown-Springfield-Louisville Railroad around 1854, or burial
Located in Mount Washington on U.S. 31E. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, the late-Victorian, Italianate-style home is an 1880 restoration depicting life in Mount Washington during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Please note this is a drive-by museum, or you need to make a reservation
This historical marker marks the location of the railroad bridge over the Salt River in Shepherdsville. The bridge was repeatedly attacked during the Civil War, destroyed three times by the Confederacy, and partially razed on Sept. 7, 1862, under Col. John Hutcheson. During the occupation of Shepherdsville on Sept. 28,
This historical marker marks the location of Fort DeWolf on the L & N railroad at Shepherdsville. The Union army begain protecting the L & N Railroad from the beginning of the war. Once Nashville was taken the railroad became a vital supply line for Federal troops in Tennessee. It
This historical marker describes the establishment of Bullitt County in 1796. It is located in Shepherdsville on the Court House lawn. Bullitt County was named for Alexander Scott Bullitt, a leader in the political formation of Kentucky.
This historical marker describes Morgan’s Christmas raid on December 29-30, 1862. The American Civil War was the first conflict to utilize railroads for the movement of troops and supplies. Consequently, protecting the railroads was an important aspect of military strategy on both sides. In Kentucky this task fell to the
This historical marker marks the location of Civil War action near Bardstown Junction. John Hunt Morgan’s command of some 2,500 men left Bardstown and moved west. The raid, to this point, simply had not gone as planned. Morgan had fought two pitched battles at Green River Bridge and at Lebanon
This historical marker marks the location of the early saltworks at Bullitt’s Lick. Located by Captain Thomas Bullitt in 1773, it is the site of early commercial production of salt in Kentucky. This lick provided salt for Kentucky settlements and the Illinois country as early as the late-1700s.
This historical marker describes Brashear’s Station, also known as Salt River Garrison or Froman’s Station. It is located in Shepherdsville near the Floyds Fork Bridge over KY 44E. An early station on the Wilderness Road between the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville) and Harrodsburg, Brashear’s Station was a haven for
This historical marker describes the Belmont Furnace. Built in 1844, perhaps by John H. Baker, rebuilt in 1853, it burned charcoal fuel, smelted iron ore from Cane Run. The air blast machinery was powered by steam. A major producer since 1791, Kentucky ranked 3rd in the US in production in
