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Princeton Art Guild
East Main Street, 115 42445 Princeton
Phone: (270) 365-3959
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11am-2pm Closed Sunday & Monday
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Big Springs Park Information Board
- Parks and Recreation Dept
East Washington Street
Black Patch War (Marker Number: 145)
- Comonwealth of Kentucky
East Market Street, 100
Black Patch War Here on December 1, 1906, began Black Patch War, which lasted to the end of 1908. "Night Riders" fought against non-cooperative farmers and businessmen who opposed the dark tobacco pool.
Cedar Hill Cemetery (Marker Number: 2623)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
East Green Street
EDAR HILL CEMETERY - Cedar Hill Cemetery, known as City Cemetery until 1918, was founded in 1809. The first known burial was Capt. William Prince, founder of Princeton. The cemetery includes 32 box-tombs, some made before 1835 by Scottish stone mason John
Converging of Indian Trails (Marker Number: 1916)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
East Washington Street
Saline, Eddy, and Varmint traces met at Big Spring (Princeton) and developed into today"s roads. First forged by buffalo, later used by Indians and pioneers. A fork of Saline crossed Ohio River at Cave-in-Rock; another at Golconda, Ill. Eddy Trace also kn
County Named, 1809 (Marker Number: 834)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
East Court Square
For General John Caldwell. Born Va.; came Ky., 1781. Maj. Gen. in militia; Indian campaigns. With George Rogers Clark, 1786. Member Danville Conventions, 1787, 1788, which adopted petition "demanding admission into the Union." State Senator, 1792-96. Elec
Courthouse Burned (Marker Number: 579)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
West Court Square
Gen. Hylan B. Lyon with 800 men invaded Ky., Dec. 1864, to enforce CSA draft law and divert USA from Nashville. In 23 days he burned seven courthouses used by Union forces. (See map on reverse side.) US troops fled Princeton as Lyon came from Eddyville. C
Cumberland Presbyterian College (Marker Number: 1453)
West Main Street
Site of college founded March, 1826, by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. First president was Rev. F. R. Cossitt. School opened with six students on some 500 acres of land bought for $6,000. A manual-labor school, students required to work 2 hours a day
Historic Educational Site (Marker Number: 1903)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
South Plum Street
Six educational institutions have flourished here since 1860. Local citizens gave $20,000 and Dr. T.L. McNary six acres to establish Princeton College, 1860-80. Youth also served by Princeton Collegiate Inst., 1880-1911; Princeton High, 1911-23; Butler Hi
Ogden Memorial United Methodist Church (Marker Number: 1932)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
West Main Street
Congregation organized in 1818 as Methodist Episcopal Church at home of Richard Barnes, a tanner. First meeting house later built beside his home on S. Jefferson St. Became M.E. Church, South, 1845, when national church split over slavery. Renamed to hono
Preacher to Pioneers (Marker Number: 1278)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
South Jefferson Street
Bishop Asbury named two itinerant Methodist preachers to Kentucky in 1786. One, Rev. Benjamin Ogden, had dedicated himself to religion after the Revolution. He preached in what is now Kentucky and Tennessee area. While inspiring countless pioneers, he end
Princeton First Baptist Church (Marker Number: 2195)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
North Cave Street
First Baptist Church, organized on March 30, 1850, under the leadership of the Rev. James Mansfield and a presbytery from Donaldson, Harmony, and New Bethel Baptist Churches, began with 11 members. The 1st church, built in 1851, stood on Vine Street. It w
Princeton Tourist Welcome Center
- City of Princeton
East Market Street, 206 42445 Princeton
Phone: Contact City Hall - (270) 365-9575
Shandy Hall (Princeton) (Marker Number: 1902)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
East Washington Street
Shandy Hall, two-story stone home built on bluff above Big Spring, built by William Prince on his 200-acre survey made in 1798. Prince, a Rev. War veteran from S.C., began town on waters of Eddy Creek. In 1817, Princetown became county seat of Caldwell Co
Site of Dotson School (Marker Number: 2183)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
Calvert Street
In 1910, Princeton High School was the only high school in the vicinity for blacks. In 1920s name was changed to Dotson High School in honor of John Dotson, a prominent black businessman in Princeton. In 1938, Federal WPA officials approved construction o
Trail of Tears (Marker Number: 142)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
East Washington Street
At this point on the "Varmintrace" Road from Princeton toward Cumberland River the Cherokee Indians in 1838 camped on the 1200-mile "Trail of Tears." The enforced trek began in the Great Smoky Mountains and led westward to Indian Territory, costing the Ch
U.S. Research and Education Center (Marker Number: 2118)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
University Drive
stablished by Ky. legislature in 1924 as Western Ky. Sub-experiment Station of the Univ. of Kentucky College of Agriculture. Original 400 acres donated by Caldwell Co. citizens. S. J. Lowry was supt., 1924-63. First office/service building was completed i
William Prince, 1752-1810 (Marker Number: 2330)
- Commonwealth of Kentucky
East Market Street
Born in Virginia, his family moved to Spartanburg Co., S.C. in 1768. During the Revolutionary War, he served as captain in Col. Benjamin Roebuck’s S.C. Spartan regiment. After completing his military duty, he led a party of family & friends through Cumber
Museum
Adsmore Museum
North Jefferson Street, 304 42445 Princeton
Phone: 270-365-3114
Opening hours: Th-Sa 11:00-16:00
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Picnic/Park
West Main Street, 113