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Surface Area: 46 acres.
Location:
Fayette County, Kentucky.
Mailing Address:
240 Gentry Road
Lexington, KY 40502
Phone: 859-263-1073
Features: Picnicking.
Historic Significance: Daniel Boone left Fort Boonesborough and established a pioneer station on this site in 1779. This settlement was home to 15-20 families in the early 1780s. Boone and his family lived at this site for only three years. Samuel Boone, Daniel Boone's brother and father of Thomas Boone, is buried at Boone Station, where a marker honors his memory.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 3 acres.
Location:
Boyle County, Kentucky.
In Danville, KY.
Mailing Address:
134 South Second Street
Danville, KY 40422-1880
Phone: 859-239-7089
Features: Original and reconstructed pioneer buildings.
Historic Significance: The residents of Kentucky worked for nearly eight years to be admitted as a State in the newly formed United States. Constitution Square in Danville, KY was the site where delegates met ten times during that period for Constitutional Conventions. Finally, on June 1, 1792, Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the Union and Isaac Shelby, a Revolutionary War hero and convention delegate, was named the first governor of the new Commonwealth.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 12 acres.
Location:
Knox County, Kentucky.
Southwest of Barbourville, KY on KY 459.
Mailing Address:
4929 KY 459
Barbourville, KY 40906-9603
Phone: 606-546-4400
Features: A replica of the first log cabin in Kentucky, built by Dr. Thomas Walker. Miniature golf, basketball court, picnicking, and playground.
Historic significance: A physician and surveyor, Walker led the first expedition through Cumberland Gap in 1750, 17 years before the more famous Daniel Boone. Dr. Walker was an agent for the Loyal Land Company of Virginia and was exploring the western wilderness seeking land for settlement. Near the river, which he named the Cumberland, Dr. Walker built the first cabin in Kentucky, a replica of which stands on the site today. Dr. Walker’s journal, recorded during his four-month exploration, described plentiful wildlife, thickly tangled woods and rugged terrain.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 2 acres.
Location:
Lincoln County, Kentucky.
Five miles south of Danville, KY off US 127 outside Junction City, KY.
Mailing Address:
134 South Second Street
Danville, KY 40422-1880
Phone: 859-239-7089
Features: Picnick tables and shelter.
Historic significance: Marks the burial place of Kentucky's first and fifth governor, Isaac Shelby (1750 - 1826). This is the Shelby family cemetery, located on the Shelby estate known as "Traveller's Rest."
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 19 acres.
Location:
Todd County, Kentucky.
In Fairview, KY about 10 miles east of Hopkinsville, KY on US 68.
Mailing Address:
Highway 68 E
Fairview, KY 42221-0157
Phone: 270-886-1765
Features: Picnick tables, shelter, and playground. A visitor's center features exhibits detailing Davis' political life before and after the Civil War, and offers Kentucky handcrafts, souvenirs, books and Civil War memorabilia.
Historic significance: 351-foot obelisk marks the site of the birth of Jefferson Davis in 1808. Jefferson Davis was a West Point graduate, Mexican War hero, Mississippi congressman and senator, Secretary of War during the Franklin Pierce administration, and President of the COnfederate States during the Civil War.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 60 acres.
Location:
Monroe County, Kentucky.
On KY 100 southwest of Tompkinsville, KY.
Mailing Address:
38 Old Mulkey Park Road
Tompkinsville, KY 42167-8766
Phone: 270-487-8481
Features: Picnick tables, shelter and playground. A gift shop, located in the park office, features books on the history of Old Mulkey, Kentucky handcrafts and souvenirs.
Historic significance: The oldest log church meetinghouse in Kentucky was built here in 1804. It was built in the shape of a cross. The Old Mulkey Church was orginally called the Mill Creek Baptist Church. It was established by a small band of pioneer Baptists from North and South Carolina led by Philip Mulkey.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 251 acres.
Location:
Boyle County, Kentucky.
Mailing Address:
1825 Battlefield Road
Perryville, KY 40468-0296
Phone: 859-332-8631
Features: Museum, self-guided walking tour of the battlefield, picnicking and playground.
Historic significance: Site of Civil War battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862. The most destructive Civil War battle in the state which left more than 6,000 killed, wounded or missing. The park museum tells of the battle that was the South’s last serious attempt to gain possession of Kentucky.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 10 acres.
Location:
Fayette County, Kentucky.
Off US 68 in south Lexington, KY.
Mailing Address:
225 Waveland Museum Lane
Lexington, KY 40514-1601
Phone: 859-272-3611
Features: 1847 house and grounds of Joseph Bryan. Tours of Waveland focus on the Bryan family and life on a 19th-century Kentucky plantation.
Historic significance: The Bryan family accompanied Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap to the Bluegrass region, and established Bryan's Station in 1779 - one of Kentucky's first settlements. Joseph Bryan was a grandnephew of Daniel Boone.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 13 acres.
Location:
Madison County, Kentucky.
Off I-75 between Richmond, KY and Lexington, KY.
Mailing Address:
500 White Hall Shrine Road
Richmond, KY 40475-9159
Phone: 859-623-9178
Features: This restored 44-room Italianate mansion was built in 1799 and remodeled in the 1860s. Picnicking.
Historic significance: The home of Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Location:
Ballard COunty, Kentucky.
The site is located in the Wickliffe community about 20 miles west of Paducah, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
Mailing Address:
94 Green Street
Wickliffe, KY 42087
Phone: 270-335-3681
Features: Wickliffe Mounds Museum exhibits the excavated features of the mounds, displays of Mississippian pottery from the site, stone tools, bone and shell implements, the architecture of Mississippian mounds and houses, burial practices of the Mississippians. Hiking trails and picnicking.
Historic significance: Wickliffe Mounds is the archaeological site of a prehistoric Native American village of the Mississippian mound builders. Located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi river, the village was occupied from about AD 1100 to 1350.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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Surface Area: 2 acres.
Location:
Lincoln County, Kentucky.
Southeast of Stanford, KY on US 150.
Mailing Address:
625 William Whitley Road
Stanford, KY 40484-9770
Phone: 606-355-2881
Features: Picnicking.
Historic significance: The William Whitley House is the first brick home and circular racetrack in Kentucky, completed in 1794 by William Whitley and his wife Esther.
Information Source: State of Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, Department of Parks
Date: July, 2005
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