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Greensburg, Indiana, experienced race riots in 1906 [67] and 1907. [68] Sociologist James W. Loewen described the town as a sundown town in his 2005 book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. [69] Greenwood, Indiana, had an unwritten law "forbidding Negroes to be in town after dark according to the Indiana Civil Rights ...
The Downtown Greensburg Historic District in Greensburg, Kentucky, the county seat of Green County, is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. It consists of 47 contributing properties. Greensburg was founded in 1794. The town site was originally called Glover's Station, named after its founder John Glover in 1779.
Location of Green County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Green County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Green County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Greensburg is located east of the center of Green County at (37.259665, -85.497863), [6] on the north side of the Green River, a west-flowing tributary of the Ohio U.S. Route 68 passes through the city as Main Street; it leads northeast 11 miles (18 km) to Campbellsville and southwest 25 miles (40 km) to Edmonton.
With a population shy of 8,700, a small town in Kentucky might seem like an unlikely candidate for an idyllic place where soon-to-be retirees can enjoy their golden years. However, it may soon ...
(1) "History of Green County, Kentucky," by Lanny Tucker. The Cow Days Festival is held in Greensburg the 3rd weekend of September. The event originated during the late 1930s, when Greensburg merchants would give away a cow to entice people to come to town.
Shamokin (/ ʃ ə ˈ m oʊ k ɪ n /; Saponi Algonquian Schahamokink: "place of crawfish") (Lenape: Shahëmokink [1]) was a multi-ethnic Native American trading village on the Susquehanna River, located partially within the limits of the modern cities of Sunbury and Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania.
Great Shamokin Path Pennsylvania Historical Marker on Pennsylvania Route 150 west of Lock Haven. The Great Shamokin Path (also known as the "Shamokin Path") was a major Native American trail in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania that ran from the native village of Shamokin (modern-day Sunbury) along the left bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River north and then west to the Great Island (near ...