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KENTUCKY- BOWLING GREEN, KY- 7/06/05

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Bowling Green, Kentucky

HISTORY of BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY

LONG HUNTERS
An exploring party of 13 "Long Hunters," so named because of the long periods of time spent away from home, camped along Barren River in 1775. Their names were carved on a beech tree, a silent record of the first white men in this area. Henry Skaggs and Joseph Drake of this group had been among first Long Hunters, 1769 - 1771, whose exploring helped open mid-Kentucky.

BOWLING GREEN
The Confederate Capitol of Kentucky. A newly Constituted State of Kentucky. Having been conceived in sovereignty Convention November 18 - 20, 1861 at Russellville. Established Bowling Green as its capitol. The commissioners to the Confederate Congress in Richmond were William Preston, Louisville, William E Simms, Bourbon, and Henry C Burnett, Trigg. On December 10, 1861, the state of Kentucky was admitted into the Confederacy by act of the Confederate Congress. Section 1, the Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact that the state of Kentucky be, and is hereby, admitted a member of the Confederate States of America, on equal footing with the other states of this Confederacy, Kentuckians sympathetic with the cause of States Rights, found a state and a country which they could call their own.

CIVIL WAR OCCUPATIONS
Threatened by Union forces to the west, CSA, who had occupied city five months and fortified hills, planned to evacuate February 14, 1862. Other Federals came from north and bombarded from across the river. CSA set fire to depot and warehouses, as planned, night of 13th. Federals resumed bombardment next day, but ceased and entered city when informed CSA had gone.

JACOB SKILES AND THREE SPRINGS
Pioneer merchant Skiles started to Kentucky in 1790 by Ohio River flatboat, surviving Indian capture en route. He settled in Bowling Green, 1803, and later moved to Three Springs on the Cumberland Trace. Here he established a thriving mercantile business. Skiles died, 1816. Three Springs declined as an area trade center in 1820's when travel was diverted through Bowling Green.

JAMES T MOREHEAD (1797 - 1854)
Kentucky's first native son to become governor was born in Bullitt County but reared in Logan County. He read law under John J Crittenden; began practice in Bowling Green. Served in Kentucky House of Representatives, and elected lieutenant governor. At Governor Breathitt's death, Morehead became chief executive 1834 - 1836. A close Whig ally of Henry Clay, he was in U S Senate, 1841 - 1847. Buried in Frankfort.

DOWN TOWN Bowling Green, KENTUCKY as seen by the Camera on July 6, 2005

City Square Park

In memory of his brother, Eustace Floyd Lampkin.

Born in Athens, Georgia May 31, 1898. Died in Charlottesville, Virginia October 10, 1955 whose personal fortune was largely donated to charity.

IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND CLIFTON WALLACE LAMPKIN
Born in Athens, Georgia, December 20, 1884, died in Bowling Green August 4, 1959. Mayor of Bowling Green 1953 - 1959. Kentucky Colonel, Financier, Philanthropist, Humanitarian, supporter of parks, playgrounds, churches and church missions.

Made of Warren County crystalline dolitic stone, Smallhouse Quarry at the Knob Church.

A gift from Sam L A Walker to his native city May 27, 1916.

"THE CLASSICS" by GEORGE LUNDEEN
A bicentennial gift to the citizens of Bowling Green, Kentucky in thanksgiving for all our children who have been and will be nurtured here. Especially those who live short lives. The Byars / Willock families 1997.