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CSA Cemetery

Marker Number:

182

Location:

Maple Ave, Pewee Valley

In burying ground 1 mile south, marked by granite obelisk, lie remains of 313 soldiers who died while residents of the Kentucky Confederate home. The home was located on the high ground just northwest of here. It was used for CSA veterans, 1902 to 1934.

Dedicated June 3, 1963.

For more information, see ExploreKYHistory: CSA Cemetery

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PeWee Valley

Marker Number:

208

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Old L&N Depot

Formerly "Smith's Station" - Setting of famous "Little Colonel" and other fictional portrayals of life in Pewee Valley by Annie Fellows Johnston. Her stately home, "The Beeches," 1/2 mi. N.W. Most prominent town founder was Henry S. Smith, 1802-83. A trustee of town, he owned property, surveyed roads, and helped establish girls' college and Pewee Valley Cemetery.

Originally dedicated June 2, 1963.

For more information, see ExploreKYHistory: Pewee Valley

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David Wark Griffith, 1875-1948

Marker Number:

650

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Crestwood, KY 22/146

Oldham County native buried here. Renowned as director-producer of The Birth of a Nation, film drama of Civil War and post-bellum era, and also Intolerance, Orphans of the Storm, Broken Blossoms. He created dramatic and photographic effects, close-up and fade-out. He brought out Mary Pickford, Lillian and Dorothy Gish and other stars.

Originally erected in 1964.

For more information, see ExploreKYHistory: D.W. Griffith

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A Masonic Leader

Marker Number:

752

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KY 53/147, La Grange

Home of Dr. Rob Morris, 1818-88. In 1884 "crowned Poet Laureate of Freemasonry." Founded the Order of the Eastern Star. He was born near Boston, Mass., lived 28 years here. From 1861 to 1865 president of the Masonic College, located in La Grange, 1844-73. Author of many Masonic books and poems. Grand Master, 1858-59, the Grand Lodge of Kentucky. Died here in 1888.
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    Westport

    Marker Number:

    909

    Location:

    Ky 524

    First called Liberty, located on 1780 grant to Elijah Craig. Ferry operated here by Levi Boyer early as 1800 formed a link in route to Illinois country. Town became a port to the west-Westport. In the steamboat era, the town was a thriving port for shipping farm produce and receiving merchandise. The first county seat of Oldham, 1823-38, except nine months, 1827.
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    Funk Seminary Site

    Marker Number:

    957

    Location:

    Ky 53/146, LaGrange

    In 1841 William M. Funk bequeathed $10,000 to establish seminary. It was chartered by Legislature and erected here, 1842. In 1844 Grand Lodge of Ky. assumed control and changed it to Masonic College. In 1852 changed to Masonic Univ. of Ky. School reached its height in next decade. Civil War disrupted it. Reverted to high school in 1873. Building burned in 1911.
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    Oldham County, 1824

    Marker Number:

    1251

    Location:

    La Grange, Courthouse lawn, KY 53, 146

    Taken from parts of Jefferson, Shelby, and Henry counties, it was the 74th formed. Named for Col. William Oldham, native Virginian, officer in War of Revolution. Commanded regiment of Kentucky militia in ill-fated Indian campaign on Wabash River in 1791, led by General St. Clair. Oldham was one of over 800 killed in battle, half of troops engaged.
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    Woodland Farm

    Marker Number:

    2156

    Location:

    4801 Greenhaven Lane, Goshen

    Formerly known as Clifton, home’s three sections built at different times. Thomas Barbour, a founder of Oldham County, established farm and built third portion of home ca. 1840. He sold farm in 1855 to Richard T. Jacob, who became lieutenant governor of Ky. Having been farmed for over 150 years, Woodland named to National Register of Historic Places, 1997.
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    Eighteen Mile Island, part of farm, was first source of water for co. public water system in 1964. In 1997 Laura Lee Brown and James Steven Wilson founded a nationally recognized breeding farm for American bison. In 2003 farm placed under protection from development with Dept. of Agr. Purchase of Agr. Conservation Easement program.

    Dedicated September 29, 2004.

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    LaGrange Training School

    Marker Number:

    2418

    Location:

    419 N. First St., LaGrange

    Built in 1921-22, it was the ninth school in Ky. for African Americans supported by the Julius Rosenwald Grant. After completing the first 8 years of school, students were bussed 25 miles to the Lincoln Institute in Shelby Co. to attend high school. This ended after the 1964 Civil Rights Act integrated Kentucky schools. Over.
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    Rosenwald Schools- Site of one of the 158 Rosenwald Schools constructed in Kentucky between 1917 & 1932. The one-room schoolhouse provided an education for African American children required to attend segregated schools. This program grew out of Booker T. Washington’s vision for educational reform & his partnership with philanthropist, Julius Rosenwald.

    Dedicated June 21, 2014.

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    Richard James Oglesby

    Marker Number:

    2470

    Location:

    7701 Hwy. 329, Brownsboro Community Center, Crestwood

    Born on July 25, 1824 in Floydsburg, Oldham Co., he was one of eight children born to Col. Jacob and Isabella Watson Oglesby, who, with two of his siblings, died in the 1833 cholera epidemic. Oglesby was raised by an uncle and moved to Decatur, Ill. in 1836. He fought in the Mexican War & Civil War, was married twice, & had eight children.
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    A close friend and supporter of Abraham Lincoln, he is credited with introducing the “rail-splitter” image into Lincoln’s 1860 presidential campaign and was at Lincoln’s bedside when he died. Oglesby was a brigadier general in the Civil War and a three-time governor of Illinois. He died in Elkhart, Ill. on April 24, 1899.

    Dedicated September 12, 2015.

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    Annie Fellows Johnston 1863-1931

    Marker Number:

    2503

    Location:

    125 Central Avenue, Pewee Valley

    A celebrated author of children’s fiction, she was best known for her “Little Colonel” novels. While visiting relatives in Pewee Valley, she met five-year-old Hattie Cochran and her grandfather, Col. Geo. Weissinger, the inspirations for the characters in the novels.The fictitious Lloydsborough Valley was based on Pewee Valley. Over.
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    An Indiana native, she wrote more than forty books, and most of the characters were based on people she knew. In 1910, she moved to Pewee Valley and bought “The Beeches.” She lived there with her step-daughter, artist Mary G. Johnston, for the rest of her life. “The Little Colonel” movie starring Shirley Temple was made in 1935.

    Dedicated March 29, 2017.

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    James & Amanda Mount Home/J.C. Barnett Library and Archives

    Marker Number:

    2536

    Location:

    106 N. Second Ave., La Grange

    James & Amanda Mount Home

    Built circa 1840, this restored "four square" home was originally home to James Mount (1796-1864) and wife, Amanda Malvina Railey Mount (1810-1888). Amanda was the first cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson. Family papers reveal aspects of Oldham County slavery including sales, escape attempts, and bounties offered.

    Sponsored by Oldham County Tourism

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    J.C. Barnett Library and Archives

    Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Mount home became the J.C. Barnett Library & Archives in 1998. In 2016 it was placed in the National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network for rare slave court records.

    Sponsored by Oldham County Tourism

    Dedicated on April 13, 2018.

    For more information see ExploreKYHistory: James & Amanda Mount Home / J.C. Barnett Library and Archives.

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    Westport Courthouse

    Marker Number:

    2594

    Location:

    6901 KY-524, Westport

    Westport Courthouse - First court session held here in 1828. In addition to indicting criminals and appointing justices of the peace, the court resolved sales, auctions, and escapes of enslaved people & settled disputes pertaining to slave hire-outs. The court moved to nearby LaGrange in 1838. Sponsored by Oldham County Tourism and Oldham County Historical Society.
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    The Courthouse and Enslavement - Records related to enslavement were common. Justice of the Peace William Gatewood was charged for the illegal hire-out of Mahala, mother of Henry Bibb’s wife Malinda. Bibb, a famous abolitionist, escaped Gatewood’s enslavement & created a colony in Canada for fugitive slaves. Sponsored by Oldham County Tourism and Oldham County Historical Society.

    Dedicated August 31, 2019.

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