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Location of Marshall County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marshall County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Marshall County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the ...
Marshall County is a county located in far western portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,659. [1] Its county seat is Benton. [2]It is the only Purchase Area county that does not border another state; a narrow strip of land in neighboring Livingston County separates Marshall County from the Ohio River and the Illinois border.
The Cockayne Farm Preservation Project is an undertaking by the Glen Dale, West Virginia city government and the Marshall County Historical Society. The centerpiece of the project, The Bennett Cockayne House, a property on the National Register of Historic Places, [2] was given to the city in the will of Samuel Cockayne in 2001.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10 km 2), all land. Benton lies in the center of the county encompassing the hills just south and west of Clarks River. Benton is the county seat of Marshall county, in the far western region of west Kentucky known as the Jackson purchase.
Birmingham was located in eastern Marshall County, Kentucky along the Tennessee River. It was located about 8 miles (13 km) east-northeast of Benton. Kentucky Route 58 was the primary thoroughfare in and out of town; it connected with areas of southern Lyon County to the east via ferry service, and to the west with the Benton area. [6]
Hoover’s name was first brought forward by the Kentucky Historical Society board’s nominating committee, which is chaired by Tommy Turner, former judge-executive of LaRue County.
History of higher education in Kentucky (1899) online; McVey, Frank L. The Gates Open Slowly: A History of Education in Kentucky (1949), older scholarly survey. online; Mathias, Frank F. "Kentucky's Struggle for Common Schools, 1820–1850." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 82.3 (1984): 214–234. online; Stephenson, Martha.
This list of museums in Kentucky is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.