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The monument, built in 1924, is a simple 10-foot tall 4-sided limestone pillar. Its base is of poured concrete. The front bears the inscription "In Memory of the Colored Soldiers Franklin County, Kentucky Who Fought in the Civil War 1861-1865." [4] : 120 Inscribed around the column are the names of 142 black soldiers that hailed from central ...
Coordinates: 38°10′38″N 84°51′51″W. Gnomon. The Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a memorial sculpture located in Frankfort, Kentucky, overlooking the state capital, and containing the names of 1,108 Kentuckians killed in the Vietnam War. The memorial is in the form of a sundial with the names placed so that the tip of the gnomon ...
Kentucky War Memorial. / 38.19361°N 84.86472°W / 38.19361; -84.86472. The Kentucky War Memorial is a memorial to Kentuckians who have died in all wars. On a high-point called the "State Mound" in Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky, the memorial consists of a 65-foot-tall monument erected in 1850, nine low stone monuments built ...
Ky. funeral home that performed illegal cremations ordered to pay $580,000. Karla Ward. September 13, 2024 at 9:43 PM. Kentucky Attorney General's Office/Breckinridge Circuit Court.
Schlumberger brothers. Conrad Schlumberger (2 October 1878 in Gebweiler (Alsace-Lorraine) – 9 May 1936 in Stockholm) and Emile Henry Marcel Schlumberger (21 June 1884 in Gebweiler – 9 May 1953 in Val-Richer) were brothers from the region of Alsace-Lorraine, France, then a part of the German Empire. Their inventions in the area of geophysics ...
Liberty Hall is located west of downtown Frankfort, at the southwest corner of Wilkinson and West Main Streets, overlooking the Kentucky River.It is a two-story five-bay brick house whose main section is 60 by 46 feet (18 m × 14 m) in plan; it has a two-story rear ell which is 24.3 by 43.6 feet (7.4 m × 13.3 m) in plan.
June 19, 1980. The Old Statehouse Historic District is an area in downtown Frankfort, Kentucky near the old State Capitol and the Old Governors Mansion. The area is bounded by Broadway Street, Blanton Street, St. Clair Street, Ann Street and High Street and contains 74 historic buildings. The historic district was added to the United States ...
Floyd Collins. William Floyd Collins (July 20, 1887 [a] – c. February 13, 1925) was an American cave explorer, principally in a region of Kentucky that houses hundreds of miles of interconnected caves, today a part of Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest known cave system in the world. During the early 20th century, in an era known as the ...