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Admiral Claude C. Bloch
(Marker Number: 1769)

County: Butler
Location: Woodbury, KY 403

Description: The career of this naval officer spanned Spanish-American War and World Wars I and II. A native of Butler County, he attended public schools and Ogden College in Bowling Green; graduated from Annapolis, 1899. Assumed command of USS Plattsburg in 1918; received the Navy Cross for hazardous transporting of troops and supplies to Europe. Over.

(Reverse) Admiral Claude C. Bloch - Bloch's duties included Commander, Mine Force, Pacific Fleet; Chief of Staff to Commander, Battleship Divisions; Chief of Bureau of Ordnance-all in 1920s; Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, 1938-40; Commandant of 14th Naval Dist. at Pearl Harbor, 1940-42. As chairman of Navy Board for industrial production awards, he was given Legion of Merit. Retired, 1945.

(Subjects: Spanish-American War | World War II | World War I)

Birthplace of Hines
(Marker Number: 770)

County: Butler
Location: Woodbury, KY 403

Description: Capt. Thomas Henry Hines enlisted in the Confederate Army, 1861. With Brig. Gen. John H. Morgan, 1862-63. Captured, July 1863, in Ohio with Morgan. Led escape from Federal prison, Nov. 1863. Leader of northwest conspiracy 1864. Termed most dangerous man of Confederacy. Ky. Court of Appeals, 1878-98. Born, 1838; lived Bowling Green. Buried Fairview Cemetery, 1898.

Civil War Action
(Marker Number: 569)

County: Butler
Location: Morgantown, US 79, 231

Description: Oct. 1861, Col. J. H. McHenry, Jr., USA, at Hartford warned of threat of CSA attack. Col. S. G. Burbridge brought USA force from Owensboro and joined in move to Morgantown. Advance cavalry routed CSA scouts here. Burbridge then moved on to attack and destroy Confederate camp at Woodbury. Report of CSA re-enforcement caused Union Army to withdraw to Cromwell's Ferry.

(Subjects: Burbridge, Stephen G. | Civil War)

County Named, 1810
(Marker Number: 822)

County: Butler
Location: Morgantown, US 231

Description: For Gen. Richard Butler, b. 1743, Ireland. Came to America, 1760. Officer during Revolutionary War. Indian agent, 1784; Supt. Indian Affairs for Northern Dist., 1785. With George Rogers Clark negotiated Indian treaty, 1786. As Maj. Gen., second in command, was killed on St. Clair's expedition against Indians into Ohio country, 1791. Butler out of Logan, Ohio counties.

(Subjects: Clark, George Rogers | Indians | Revolutionary War)

Granville Allen
(Marker Number: 1172)

County: Butler
Location: Logansport Rd., Morgantown, KY 403

Description: First Union soldier killed in west Kentucky, while skirmishing on the Big Hill with CSA scouting party Oct. 29, 1861. A stone monument erected, 1894, by Granville Allen, Post 98, G.A.R., marks the place. Member of Co. D, 17th Kentucky Inf., enrolled by Col. John H. McHenry, Calhoun, Oct. 3, 1861. Union army volunteers south of Green River risked danger for home and family.

Gunshop Site
(Marker Number: 1265)

County: Butler
Location: Reedville, KY 185

Description: William Stephens, Sr., gunsmith by trade, came to America from England with his two sons, 1832. They traveled overland, then down the Ohio to the Green River, where they bought 150 acres in 1854. The gunshop operated from 1855-61, when Stephens' two sons joined CSA as gunsmiths and ordnance workers. Shop reopened after the Civil War. Operations discontinued in 1868.

James Forgy-Pioneer
(Marker Number: 1467)

County: Butler
Location: Near Quality Church of Christ, KY 106

Description: Born in Ireland, 1752; fought in the Revolutionary War under General Francis Marion. One of first settlers in N. Logan County, Ky., 1794. Charter member Caney Fork and Concord churches. Died 1828. Grandson, James N. Forgy, 1826-1923, built early grist mill on Muddy River. Established Forgytown (Quality); built the Quality Church of Christ. Buried there. Presented by William H. Forgy Wood.

(Subjects: Christian Church | Revolutionary War)

William S. Taylor (1853-1928)
(Marker Number: 1781)

County: Butler
Location: Morgantown, Courthouse lawn, Logan St.

Description: This Republican governor from Butler Co. was declared winner over William Goebel and inaugurated Dec. 12, 1899. When Democrats contested the election, controversy and extreme bitterness led to Sen. Goebel's being shot in front of Old Capitol, Jan. 30, 1900. In a disputed move, Goebel was then declared governor. His February 3 death brought J. C. W. Beckham as successor. See over.

(Reverse) William S. Taylor - For some 160 days Taylor served as governor, two-thirds of that time unofficially, with Kentucky torn between two functioning state governments. When courts decided for Beckham in May, Taylor left the state and went to Indianapolis. There the former teacher and attorney general of Kentucky practiced law and became vice-president of an insurance company.

(Subjects: Beckham, J.C.W.)