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The Camp Breckinridge Non-Commissioned Officers' Club, at 1116 N. Village Rd. in Morganfield, Kentucky, was built in 1942 for the U.S. Army by contractor Struck Construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Morganfield is located near Camp Breckinridge, a World War II infantry division camp and prisoner-of-war camp. During that war, the camp comprised 36,070 acres (14,600 ha) and could accommodate 2,031 officers and 42,092 enlisted men. [11] About 40,000 soldiers preparing for the war stayed at the camp.
Breckinridge Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in Union County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,874 at the 2000 census. It is named for the Breckinridge Job Corps Center, now known as the Earle C. Clements Job Corps Center.
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A service of worship at the tabernacle of a camp meeting of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, held at Wesleyan Methodist Camp in Stoneboro, Pennsylvania.. The camp meeting is a form of Protestant Christian religious service originating in England and Scotland as an evangelical event in association with the communion season.
In July 1862, Union forces at Caseyville, Kentucky threatened to arrest everyone in the town of treason, eventually freeing all but nineteen citizens. A skirmish in Morganfield on September 1, 1862, resulted in a Confederate victory. [2] [3] [4] The monument consists of a limestone base supporting a white marble obelisk. Inscribed on the ...
In 1873, the Bogards moved to Caseyville [1] in Union County in western Kentucky. There he attended school and the nearby Woodland Baptist Church, still in existence in Morganfield, Kentucky. [2] Young Bogard was also a frequent participant in religious camp meetings. [3]
More than 200 young men training at Camp Breckinridge, a federal Job Corps center in Morganfield, Kentucky, rioted for three hours. Ten people were injured and windows at the administration building were smashed after a brawl broke out in the cafeteria.