Biographical Sketches & History Markers by County

History Markers

Marker # 859, Mary Ingles
Marker # 1253, Boone County, 1798 (Mary Ingles)
Marker # 2420, The Dinsmore Homestead (Julia Dinsmore)
In development, Frank Milburn (Irene Scott and Pat Scott)

Marker # 1269, Bethel College
Marker # 2626, Mary Edmunds Bronaugh
Marker # 11, Todd House (Mary Todd Lincoln)
Marker # 12, Mary Todd Lincoln
Marker # 807, A Founder of D.A.R. (Mary Desha)
Marker # 1876, Madeline M. Breckinridge
Marker # 1963, Colored Orphan Industrial Home (E. Belle Mitchell Jackson)
Marker # 2011, Sarah Blanding
Marker # 2106, Patterson Hall
Marker # 2197, Sayre Female Institute / David Austin Sayre
Marker # 2199, Lexington Public Library / Carnegie Library
Marker # 2261, Mary Todd Lincoln House
Marker # 2315, Margaret I. King Library
Marker # 2444, Myrtle Weldon, 1890-1971
Marker # 2460, Florence Crittenton Home
Marker # 2481, Mentelle Park
Marker # 2514, Garden Club of Lexington
Marker # 2539, Historic LGBTQ Site (Marjorie Jones and Tracy Knight)

Marker # 26, Spring Fort Built Before 1782 (Steele)
Marker # 1702, Presentation Academy
Marker # 1715, Alice Virginia Coffin, 1848-1888
Marker # 1744, Beechland (Sarah Taylor Davis)
Marker # 1778, Grave of Steamboat Captain (Mary M. Miller)
Marker # 1851, Louisville Girls High School
Marker # 1899, Irene Dunne, 1898-1990
Marker # 1974, “Neighborhood House”
Marker # 1988, Petersburg (Eliza Curtis Hundley Tevis)
Marker # 2042, Saint Joseph Infirmary
Marker # 2094, Forest Home Cemetery (Eliza Curtis Hundley Tevis)
Marker # 2133, Enid Yandell, 1869-1934
Marker # 2134, Murray Atkins Walls – Civil Rights Pioneer
Marker # 2142, Jennie C. Benedict
Marker # 2144, Civil Rights Struggle, 1954 / Wades: Open Housing Pioneers (Charlotte Wade, Anne Braden)
Marker # 2173, First Unitarian Church (Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt)
Marker # 2196, Rosa Phillips Stonestreet, 1859-1936
Marker # 2221, Rebecca Rosenthal Judah / National Council of Jewish Women
Marker # 2279, Sister Emily Cooper
Marker # 2298, The Little Loomhouse (Lou Tate Bousman; Mildren Jane Hill & Patty Smith Hill)
Marker # 2304, Wolf Pen Corridor (Marcia Kleinman Goldstein)
Marker # 2326, Ursuline Sisters & Academy
Marker #2337, Cabbage Patch Settlement (Louise Marshall and Alice Hegan Rice)
Marker # 2364, Highland Mothers Club
Marker # 2401, St. Frances of Rome School / Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Marker # 2478, St. Vincent Orphanage & Infirmary / Catherine Spalding
Marker # 2519, St. MatthewChurch
Marker #2522, Montgomery Street School (Emma Dolfinger)
Marker # 2534, Red Cross Hospital, 1899-1976 / Mary E. Merritt
Marker # 2566, Susan Look Avery / Woman’s Club of Louisville
Marker # 2567, The Good Shepherd Order
Marker # 2602, Home to Campaigns for Racial Justice / Carl Braden Memorial Center (Anne Braden)
Marker # 2609, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Notable Educator, Social Activist
Marker # 2628, William Shakespeare Caldwell / The Caldwell Sisters
Marker # 2652, Jones v. Hallahan / Louisville Gay Liberation Front (Marjorie Jones and Tracy Knight)
In development Louisville Industrial School of Reform, “Colored Girls Dormitory”

Marker # 2653, The Town That Coal Built / Cabin on a Hill in Butcher Holler (Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle)

Marker # 1175, Confederate Flag of Welcome / Rescue of Flag (Emily Jarrett)
Marker # 2137, Ann I. Baker, 1873-1931

In development Hotel Metropolitan (Maggie Steed)

Marker # 2651, Nancy Green, Culinary Icon

Marker # 1728, McCoy Graves Here
Marker # 1959, Effie Waller Smith
Marker # 2176, Sally McCoy
Marker # 2434, Frank and Nancy McCoy Phillips