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Camp Anderson
(Marker Number: 1391)

County: Monroe
Location: 2 mi. S. of Flippin, KY 1366

Description: Camp established by Union Army to train and drill troops and as a place of rendezvous. In October 1861, Col. S. S. Stanton, 25th Tenn. Infantry, Confederate Army, was ordered to capture the encampment. He marched his regiment into the county and burned Camp Anderson, which had already been abandoned by the Federal troops.

(Subjects: Camps)

Courthouse Burned
(Marker Number: 593)

County: Monroe
Location: Tompkinsville, Courthouse lawn, KY 63, 100

Description: Twenty-two Kentucky courthouses were burned during Civil War, nineteen in last fifteen months: twelve by Confederates, eight by guerrillas, two by Union accident. See map on reverse side. Courthouse and other buildings in Tompkinsville burned by CSA force, April 22, 1863, in reprisal for Federals burning Celina, Tenn. Monroe County records were lost.

(Subjects: Civil War | Courthouses Burned)

Famous Tree
(Marker Number: 1394)

County: Monroe
Location: Indian Creek Church, Flippin, KY 249

Description: In 1894, a huge Tulip Poplar tree was felled about 1-1/2 miles south of this site. It measured 11 ft. in diameter, 35 ft. in circumference. Two six-foot saws were welded together to cut it. A four-foot log from the tree was transported to Chicago for exhibition at the 1893-94 Columbian World's Fair and Exposition, where it won a first prize. Over.

(Reverse) Indian Creek Church - The main log from this tree supplied lumber to build the second Baptist Church house of Indian Creek, and a part of the Methodist Church. The first Baptist Church housed on this site was destroyed by fire in 1893. The second church house burned in 1921, and a third building was erected here. Over.

(Subjects: Baptist Church | Trees)

Free-Town Church
(Marker Number: 1347)

County: Monroe
Location: 2 mi. W. of Gamaliel, KY 100

Description: Built in 1846 by freed slaves of William Howard, who gave them 400 acres on which to build homes, known since then as Free-Town. Albert Martin gave them the land for the church. No replacements of the original building material of this church, except for metal roof in place of old wooden one. The logs are held together by wooden pegs and chinked with clay.

(Subjects: African American)

Monroe County-Tompkinsville
(Marker Number: 1093)

County: Monroe
Location: Tompkinsville, Courthouse lawn, KY 63, 100

Description: The only county of the 2,957 in the United States named for a President where the county seat is named for the contemporary Vice-President. County formed in 1820; named for James Monroe the fifth President, author of the Monroe Doctrine. The county seat named for Daniel Tompkins. Two terms for each covered 1817-25.

Moore's Mill
(Marker Number: 2041)

County: Monroe
Location: 3.5 mi. SE of Tompkinsville, KY 163

Description: Phillip Moore purchased a steam saw mill on Meshack Creek from S. A. Moore, 1874. Phillip's son Joel and 4 grandsons eventually moved mill here. In 1929 the expanded lumber mill was among first mills in area to operate at night with electric lights. Phillip's grandson, George Moore, owned mill from 1941 until his death in 1965. Presented by the Moore Family.

(Reverse) (Metal photos of mill on reverse side)

(Subjects: Creeks | Mills)

Morgan's First Raid
(Marker Number: 524)

County: Monroe
Location: Tompkinsville, KY 63, 100

Description: July 9, 1862, Morgan's Raiders, coming from Tenn. on first raid into Ky., attacked force of 9th Pa. Cav. at USA garrison. Raiders captured 30 of retreating enemy and destroyed tents and stores. They took 20 wagons, 50 mules, 40 horses, sugar and coffee supplies. At Glasgow they burned supplies, then went north, raiding 16 other towns before returning to Tenn.

(Subjects: Civil War | Morgan, John Hunt)

Old Mulkey Church
(Marker Number: 721)

County: Monroe
Location: 2 mi. S. of Tompkinsville, KY 1446

Description: First church in this area located 200 yards from here. Formed, 1773, by Philip Mulkey, other settlers from Carolinas. Church grew till this larger house built in 1804. Building in form of the Cross, 12 corners for Apostles, 3 doors for Trinity. Daniel Boone's sister, Hannah, and Revolutionary War soldiers buried in graveyard.

(Subjects: Boone, Daniel | Revolutionary War)