Tracing Heritage In the Frontiersman’s Footsteps At Boone Trace Trail , explore the road that Daniel built and that pioneers followed on their way to settling the West. In London’s Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park, check out the “Library of Mountain Millstones” — the largest such collection outside the Smithsonian Institute. The weighty disks encircle McHargue’s Mill, home of a 2,000-pound millstone that dates back to 1805. Forget Me Not Pick up a map at Constitution Square Historic Site for a driving tour around Danville and Boyle County to visit the Forgotten Landmarks: African American Sites in Boyle County . Travel from the Amelia Sleet Burton Colored School to African American-owned Foag’s Park Baseball Field to the Shelby City African American Cemetery and learn about once-thriving settlements and free towns. Munitions Manse Bizarre but true: The Italianate mansion rising in stately splendor amidst beautiful gardens was once filled with ammunition. Partially constructed at the time of the Civil War, Bowling Green’s Riverview at Hobson Grove, on the Civil War Heritage Trail , was once occupied by the Confederate Army and had soldiers stationed on the grounds and explosives stored in the basement. Portal to African American History From Nicholasville and the Camp Nelson National Monument to the Kentucky/Ohio bridge, the Brigadier General Charles Young Memorial Historical Corridor travels 88 miles and two centuries into the history of the African American experience. See Young’s Mays Lick birth cabin, a Rosenwald School, key landmarks on the Underground Railroad, significant churches and other sights. 38 #TravelKY
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