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County: Warren

College Hill

Marker Number: 

1051

Location: 

Main & Park Sts., entrance to Reservoir Park, Bowling Green

Now known as Reservoir Hill, one of nine key fortifications of CSA defense during 1861 Civil War occupation of Bowling Green. Felled trees with sharpened ends were placed as cavalry barriers. Stones from a college building under construction went into the fortifications. The Bowling Green system was manned by approximately 4,000 Confederates.

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