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I'm just a cute, charming, lovable, brilliant, modest, oh-so-humble ] ] named C. Bedford Crenshaw. I have a Bachelors of ], Bachelors of ], and ] (focusing on history and geography) from ] and have completed all the coursework for a Ph.D. in ], specializing in ], at ]. I am a well-known writer of ] articles on , having been the first person rated #1 in the ] area. I am currently seeking a job in history, as I am burnt out on geography (which is why I'm taking a break from the Ph.D. attainment). My main interests on Misplaced Pages are the history and tourism opportunities of ] and Kentucky, especially my hometown of ] (and ]), and delving into my scholarly specialty: American history from the ] to the ]. I am most proud of my work on ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ], all nine GA's, and ], ], and the ]. | |||
Consider me as the Portal Penguin, as I have done ] (featured), ] (featured), ] (featured), ], and ]. I've contemplated starting ], and ]. | |||
I was a Wikipedian Administrator, but it was stolen from me without due process by a few fellow administrators who thought they should arbitrarily decide what should be and should not be on Misplaced Pages, despite ], and got me desysoped. I was once p.o.ed about it, but since then I've realized it is a greater honor to have been screwed of the status than to actually have it, as it just meant I am better than those behind the gangrape. Besides, it means I don't have to do as much as I did before. | |||
"''When a true ] appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the ]s are all in confederacy against him.''" ('']'') -- ] | |||
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Born | (1972-03-01) March 1, 1972 (age 52) Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
Occupation | Certified Genius/General Nuisance |
He is a penguin. Born in the highlands of Louisville four decades ago. He is alone; there are no others like him. Always good, never evil. For decades he has battled the forces of stupidity, with reading his only refuge. He cannot die, unless you take his penguins, and with it his power. In the end there can be only one. He is Bedford, the Falklander.
Featured portals: Portal:Louisville, Portal:Kentucky, Portal:Indianapolis
Good articles: Basil W. Duke, Big Four Bridge, Thomas Hines, Indiana in the American Civil War, History of slavery in Indiana, Music of the American Civil War, Indianapolis in the American Civil War, Eisenhower National Historic Site, Old Jeffersonville Historic District, Clark State Forest, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Australia and the American Civil War, Kentucky Railway Museum, Fort Scott National Historic Site, Vic Aldridge, and My Old Kentucky Home State Park.
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting) -- Jonathan Swift
Bedford is a participant in WikiProject Louisville, an open collaborative effort to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content covering metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky and related subjects in the Misplaced Pages. Join us! • Patrol changes • Cleanup issues (3,385 in 2,143 articles) • Project Talk WikiProject Louisville Alerts have been posted:
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Barnstars & Awards
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The Original Barnstar
For all your excellent work in working on Louisville-related articles, including snapping photos for use in some of them. Your dedication to this project and the Misplaced Pages in general has been inspiring. Cheers! Stevie is the man! 01:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC) -
The Original Barnstar
To Bedford, for your work on Misplaced Pages Portals. Louisville and Kentucky are probably inspiring visitors as well as other portal editors. Thank you. Susanlesch (talk) 05:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC) -
The Original Barnstar
You assesssed more than 1000 articles in spring 2008 assessment drive. Wonderful!! Solar-Poseidon 16:19, 6 July 2008 (UTC) -
The Bluegrass Barnstar
For all the great work you have done with Louisville and Kentucky articles, and for a really great start for Portal:Louisville, I hereby award one of Misplaced Pages's newest barnstars. Behold, the Bluegrass Barnstar! Enjoy. :) -
The Bluegrass Barnstar
In honor of your hard work in getting Portal:Louisville promoted to Featured Portal status, I award you the Bluegrass Barnstar. Your work on Portal:Kentucky is also noted and appreciated. Keep up the great work. Acdixon 15:03, 9 February 2008 (UTC) -
The Bluegrass Barnstar
For your valiant and successful efforts to make both Portal: Louisville and Portal:Kentucky featured portals. Great job! Stevie is the man! 18:32, 10 March 2008 (UTC) -
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your fine work on 2000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Tireless Contributor's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES 15:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC) -
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Awarded to Bedford for ongoing hard work at WP:MILHIST and T:DYK. Blnguyen (vote in the photo straw poll) 02:16, 28 February 2008 (UTC) -
The Working Man's Barnstar
For your excellent work on 3000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Working Man's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES 15:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC) -
The Barnstar of Diligence
For your outstanding work on 4000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Barnstar of Diligence. --ROGER DAVIES 15:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC) -
The Epic Barnstar
For your remarkable work on 5000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Barnstar of Diligence. --ROGER DAVIES 23:52, 1 January 2008 (UTC) -
The Photographer's Barnstar
Awarded for the tireless effort to place images on wikipedia. Probablly half the images on Wikiproject Louisville were taken by Bedford. Keep up the good photography skills. Jahnx (talk) 10:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC) -
The Special Barnstar
I hereby award The Special Barnstar to you for your great contributions to the first half of WikiProject Biography Spring 2008 Assessment Drive. Keep doing well in second half of it. :) Solar-Poseidon 22:17, 28 April 2008 (UTC) -
The Indiana Barnstar
I hereby award you, Bedford, the Indiana Barnstar for all your wonderful contributions to WikiProject Indiana, and in particular for help on Indiana in the American Civil War. Great Work! Charles Edward 18:55, 19 June 2008 (UTC) -
The Biography Barnstar
For your valiant efforts in the Biography WikiProject's Spring 2008 drive. Many thanks!! Wildhartlivie (talk) 22:49, 6 July 2008 (UTC) -
The Resilient Barnstar
Well, you have at least one person's support :) Thank you for all the work that you've done and remaining staunch in the face of breathtakingly stupid criticism. naerii 17:47, 28 July 2008 (UTC) -
The WikiProject Barnstar
For your help with improving future Milhist drives at the 2008 Tag & Assess workshop, please accept this WikiProject Barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES 07:31, 30 August 2008 (UTC) -
The Main Page Barnstar
I've seen a four-for-one DYK, and a five-for-one DYK, but never a six-for-one DYK... until now. For your exceptional contributions in many articles, and adding a truly unique hook to Did you know?, I hereby award you the Main Page Barnstar (Because for some reason I can't find a DYK barnstar). Hersfold 22:12, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Military History WikiProject 2007 | ||
By order of the Coordinators of the Military History WikiProject—for your outstanding work in Tag & Assess 2007—I award you this Golden Wiki. You are an example to us all. --ROGER DAVIES 23:52, 1 January 2008 (UTC) |
The 200 DYK Medal | ||
Hi, well done. Its a lot of effort to create these articles and there are so many. A nice range of subjects centred on the subject of civil war. Well done. Victuallers (talk) 08:56, 20 August 2008 (UTC) |
Contributions
I have started the following pages:
I have started the following pages:
Indiana
Clark County
Jeff Township
- 8664.org
- Arctic Springs, Indiana
- Camp Joe Holt
- Clarksville Senior High School
- Colgate Clock (Indiana)
- Derby Dinner Playhouse
- Falls of the Ohio State Park
- Green Tree Mall
- Grisamore House
- Henry French House
- Howard Steamboat Museum
- Jeffboat
- Jefferson General Hospital
- Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot
- Old Clarksville Site
- Old Jeffersonville Historic District
- Port Fulton, Indiana
- River Falls Mall
- Schimpff's Confectionery
- Spring Street Freight House
Rest of Clark
- Abbott-Holloway Farm
- Benjamin Ferguson House
- Bethlehem, Indiana
- Borden Normal School
- Bottorff-McCulloch Farm
- Charlestown High School (Indiana)
- Charlestown State Park
- Clark Regional Airport
- Clark State Forest
- Fourteen Mile Creek
- Indiana Army Ammunition Plant
- John Work House and Mill Site
- Pigeon Roost State Historic Site
- Rose Island (amusement park)
- Springville, Indiana
- Thomas Downs House
- Watson House
Floyd County
- Carnegie Center for Art and History
- Cedar Bough Place Historic District
- DePauw Avenue Historic District
- Culbertson, William
- Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site
- Division Street School
- East Spring Street Historic District
- Mansion Row Historic District
- New Albanian Brewing Company
- New Albany Downtown Historic District
- Old Pike Inn
- Robert E. Lee (steamboat)
- Scribner House
- Shelby Place Historic District
- Sweet Gum Stable
- Tumbleweed Southwest Grill
- Woodbine
- Yenowine-Nichols-Collins House
State Parks:
- Chain O' Lakes State Park
- Clifty Falls State Park
- Fort Harrison State Park
- Harmonie State Park
- Lincoln State Park
- Muscatatuck County Park
- O'Bannon Woods State Park
- Ouabache State Park
- Shades State Park
- Shakamak State Park
- Tippecanoe River State Park
- Versailles State Park
- Whitewater Memorial State Park
Indianapolis
- Battle of Pogue's Run
- Camp Morton
- Jacob Piatt Dunn
- History of the Irish in Indianapolis
- Indiana Central Canal
- Indiana State Library and Historical Building
- Indiana World War Memorial Plaza
- Indianapolis Fire Department
- Indianapolis in the American Civil War
- James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home
- Lieber, Richard
- List of attractions and events in Indianapolis
- Lockerbie Square Historic District
- Military Park (Indianapolis)
- North Irvington Gardens Historic District
- Pogue's Run
- Francis A. Shoup
- Union Station (Indianapolis)
- Washington Park Historic District (Indianapolis)
- White River Park State Games
Miscellaneous Indiana
- Beck's Mill
- Bell Ford Bridge
- Corydon Historic District
- Crawford-Gilpin House
- DeForest Skinner House
- Dr. Nelson Wilson House
- Friendship, Indiana
- Grand Lodge of Indiana
- Hardy Lake
- History of slavery in Indiana
- Huddleston Farmhouse
- Indiana's 9th congressional district
- Indiana in the American Civil War
- Indiana in the War of 1812
- Indiana Rangers
- Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures
- Interstate 65 in Indiana
- John Hay Center
- Kintner House Hotel
- Kintner-McGrain House
- Kintner-Withers House
- Lusk Home and Mill Site
- Madison Historic District
- Morgan-Monroe State Forest
- Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge
- Muscatatuck River
- New Harmony's Atheneum
- New Harmony Historic District
- Newburgh Raid
- Parke County Covered Bridges
- Paul Dresser Birthplace
- Potts Creek Rockshelter Archeological Site
- Pryor Brock Farmstead
- Rochester Downtown Historic District
- Salem Downtown Historic District
- Schofield House
- Scott County Home
- Scottish Rite Cathedral (Indianapolis, Indiana)
- Scottsburg Courthouse Square Historic District
- Scottsburg Depot
- Southern Indiana Railroad Freighthouse
- Stream Cliff Farm
- Swan's Landing Archeological Site
- Terminal Arcade
- Tippecanoe Twp. District No. 3 Schoolhouse and Cemetery
- Versailles School and Tyson Auditorium
- Vigo, Francis
- Yellowwood State Forest
- Template:Indiana in the Civil War
- Template:Indiana in the War of 1812
- Template:Parkecountycoveredbridges
Kentucky
Louisville
- 32nd Indiana Monument
- American Civil War fortifications in Louisville
- Benjamin Anderson (soldier)
- Confederate Martyrs Monument in Jeffersontown
- Eleven Jones Cave
- Great Steamboat Race
- Historic Firehouses of Louisville
- History of the French in Louisville
- History of the Germans in Louisville
- History of the Irish in Louisville
- John B. Castleman Monument
- Tom Jurich
- Kentucky Irish American
- Little Loomhouse
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building
- Louisville Legion
- Louisville Metro Hall
- Louisville Stoneware
- Louisville Water Tower
- Lynn's Paradise Cafe
- Mann's Lick
- Masonic Widows and Orphans Home
- Nicola Marschall
- Mary Millicent Miller
- Mayor Andrew Broaddus
- Media of Louisville, Kentucky
- Naval Ordnance Station Louisville
- Old Bank of Louisville
- St. James-Belgravia Historic District
- St. Paul's German Evangelical Church
- Senning's Park
- Southern Bivouac
- Richard Taylor (colonel)
- Thorntons Inc.
- Union Monument in Louisville
- United States Marine Hospital of Louisville
- Von Allmen Dairy Farm House
War of Northern Aggression (KY)
- Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument
- Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument
- Ben Johnson House
- Beriah Magoffin Monument
- Bourbon County Confederate Monument
- James Carson Breckinridge
- Camp Beauregard Memorial in Water Valley
- Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park
- Captain Andrew Offutt Monument
- Civil War Museum (Bardstown)
- Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument
- Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort
- Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset
- Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville
- Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield
- Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman
- Confederate Memorial in Fulton
- Confederate Memorial in Mayfield
- Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville
- Confederate Monument at Crab Orchard
- Confederate Monument in Augusta
- Confederate Monument in Cynthiana
- Confederate Monument in Danville
- Confederate Monument in Georgetown
- Confederate Monument in Glasgow
- Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg
- Confederate Monument in Owensboro
- Confederate Monument in Owingsville
- Confederate Monument in Paducah
- Confederate Monument in Perryville
- Confederate Monument in Russellville
- Confederate Monument in Versailles
- Confederate Monument of Bardstown
- Confederate Monument of Bowling Green
- Confederate Monument of Morganfield
- Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterling
- Confederate Soldiers Martyrs Monument in Eminence
- Confederate Soldier Monument in Caldwell
- Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington
- Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown
- Fort DeWolf
- Fort Duffield
- GAR Monument in Covington
- General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument
- Hines, Thomas
- Hines House
- John C. Breckinridge Memorial
- John Hunt Morgan Memorial
- Ladies' Confederate Memorial
- Latham Confederate Monument
- Lexington in the American Civil War
- List of Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
- Lloyd Tilghman House
- Lloyd Tilghman Memorial
- Martyrs Monument in Midway
- New Haven Battlefield Site
- Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery
- Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument
- Union Monument in Perryville
- Union Monument in Vanceburg
- Unknown Confederate Dead Monument in Perryville
- Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Horse Cave
- Veteran's Monument in Covington
- William F. Perry Monument
- William Forst House
Nelson County
- Bardstown Historic District
- Cobblestone Path
- Coxs Creek, Kentucky
- Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car
- Kentucky State Route 509
- L & N Steam Locomotive No. 152
- Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665
- Mt. Broderick Pullman Car
- My Old Kentucky Home State Park
- Nelson County Jail
- New Sherwood Hotel
- Old L & N Station
- Old Talbott Tavern
- Rooster Run
- Spalding Hall
- Wickland
Others
- Abraham Lincoln Statue
- Bivouac of the Dead
- Bullitt's Lick
- Cherokee State Park (Kentucky)
- Cleveland House
- D. W. Griffith House
- Daniel Carter Beard Boyhood Home
- Doe Run Inn
- Downtown Greensburg Historic District (Kentucky)
- Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad
- Ellsworth, George
- Grand Lodge of Kentucky
- Great Saltpetre Cave
- Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District
- Hopkinsville L & N Railroad Depot
- The Hunters of Kentucky
- Ice House on Little Muddy Creek
- Kentucky in the War of 1812
- Knob Creek Farm
- Licking Riverside Historic District
- List of Kentucky state parks
- Livermore Bridge
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station
- Masonic University
- Midway Historic District
- Mordecai Lincoln House
- Nancy Lincoln Inn
- Paducah Freight House
- Riverside Drive Historic District
- Rob Morris Home
- Rowan County War
- Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665
- Russellville Historic District
- Union County Courthouse
- Union Station (Owensboro)
- U.S. Route 31E in Kentucky
- Wickland (Shelbyville)
- Wooldridge Monuments
- Wooldridge-Rose House
War of Northern Aggression
- Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home
- Australia and the American Civil War
- Bahamas in the American Civil War
- Beefsteak Raid
- Cherokee in the American Civil War
- Christmas in the American Civil War
- Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial
- Ghosts of the American Civil War
- Idaho in the American Civil War
- Jim Limber
- Montana in the American Civil War
- Music of the American Civil War
- Nebraska in the American Civil War
- Nevada during the War of Secession
- Oklahoma in the American Civil War
- Persimmon regiment
- Prussia in the American Civil War
- Salt in the American Civil War
- Sex in the American Civil War
- St. Augustine in the American Civil War
- Template:ACW Barnstar
- Template:ACW Barnstar 2
- Template:ACW Barnstar 3
- Template:ACW Barnstar 4
- Template:Foreign countries in the American Civil War
- Template:Union states in the American Civil War
Miscellaneous
- 10th Edition (Magic: The Gathering)
- Alara Reborn
- Andrew Johnson National Cemetery
- The Bold Canadian
- Chee Kufta
- Crenshaw, my actual 100th article
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Hayes, Alfred
- History of slavery in Alaska
- International Temple
- Marianna Fault
- Masters Edition
- Morningtide
- Ohio River flood of 1937
- Owl's Bend Site
- Queen and Crescent Railroad
- Shadowmoor
- Shards of Alara
- Sligh some twit got it deleted; it'll return someday.
- The Great Root Bear
- The Witchery of Archery
- Time Spiral
- True20
- Wicks n' More
- Zendikar
- George Julian Zolnay
- Portal:Cincinnati
- Portal:Freemasonry
- Template:Georgia Barnstar
- Template:Grand Lodges in the United States
- Template:War of 1812
And have been a huge influence on the following pages
Indiana
- Vic Aldridge
- Greg Ballard (mayor)
- Big Four Bridge
- Jesse D. Bright
- Buffalo Trace (road)
- Caesars Indiana
- Clarksville, Indiana
- Devil's Backbone (rock formation)
- Garfield Park Conservatory and Sunken Gardens
- George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
- Harrison Spring
- Hoosier National Forest
- Indiana Historical Society
- Indiana Medical History Museum
- Jeffersonville, Indiana
- Lanier Mansion
- Levi Coffin House
- List of Indiana state parks
- Lockefield Gardens
- Michigan Road
- Lambdin P. Milligan
- Milton-Madison Bridge
- Riley Birthplace and Museum
- Spring Mill State Park
- Sugar pie
- Town Clock Church
Kentucky
- Basil W. Duke
- Hampton-Preston House
- John Milton Elliott
- Kenlake State Resort Park
- Kentucky Bourbon Festival
- Kentucky Railway Museum
- Lexington Cemetery
- Louisville Confederate Monument
- Theodore O'Hara
- Stanford L&N Railroad Depot
- Taylorsville Lake State Park
- Trinity Episcopal Church (Covington, Kentucky)
- Zachary Taylor House
- Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
Odds & Ends
- Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
- Bounty jumper
- Burt-Stark Mansion
- Cheonhado
- Confederates in the Attic
- Eisenhower National Historic Site
- Eugene V. Debs Home
- First Baptist Church (Columbia, South Carolina)
- Fort Scott National Historic Site
- Jenny Wiley State Resort Park
- Little White House
- Natchez (boat)
- Reid Smear Letter
- Rib Crib
- Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park
- Virginia City Historic District
- Warm Springs Historic District
- William Howard Taft National Historic Site
and have these 200+ DYK contributions
Indiana DYKs
- ... that in the case of Ex parte Milligan, the convictions of William A. Bowles, Harrison H. Dodd, and Lambdin P. Milligan (pictured) were thrown out?
- ... that half the pioneers who settled in northwestern Indiana used the Michigan Road?
- ... that Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (pictured) marks where Abraham Lincoln lived in Indiana, and where his sister and birth mother died?
- ... that the Milton-Madison Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 421 across the Ohio River, is considered structurally poor and unable to handle modern truck traffic?
- ... that the Indiana Rangers inspired the creation of the more famous Texas Rangers?
- ... that to defend Indiana during the War of 1812, Governor Harrison (pictured) had to recruit militia from Kentucky as those from Indiana would not join the army?
- ... that unlike most historical homes, the Paul Dresser Birthplace (pictured) in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, reflects the furnishings of a working class family, not the well-to-do?
- ... that sugar cream pie is being considered to become the official state pie of Indiana, USA?
- ... that the power station that powered the Terminal Arcade's interurbans from 1907 to 1940 had a 999-year lease?
- ... that the Abbott-Holloway Farm has two of the only four pre-1840 buildings in Bethlehem, Indiana, that were not destroyed by fire or tornado?
- ... that two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?
- ... that the Bell Ford Bridge was the last Post Truss covered bridge to still stand, collapsing in January 2006?
- ... that the Grand Lodge of Indiana was started at the Schofield House of Madison, Indiana's historic district on January 13, 1818?
- ... that Stream Cliff Farm is the oldest herb farm in Indiana?
- ... that the Crawford-Gilpin House is alleged to have once changed owners due to being lost as a wager in a poker game?
- ... that the residents of Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1860 built a new school right next to a preexisting cemetery?
- ... that an Indianapolis architect was sent to Château de Malmaison to replicate a copy of it in Indianapolis' Washington Park neighborhood?
- ... that the base of the main memorial (pictured) at George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, designed by Frederic Charles Hirons, has a dirt floor?
- ... that an owner of the DeForest Skinner House was once the youngest railroad director in the United States?
- ... that Harold's Steer-In in Indianapolis' North Irvington Gardens Historic District was the site of a 2005 MasterCard commercial featuring quarterback Peyton Manning?
- ... that the Dr. Nelson Wilson House is unusual for having Eastlake stickwork done in brick instead of wood?
- ... that construction of the courthouse (pictured) of the Rochester Downtown Historic District may have spurred nearby buildings to have faux stones cemented upon them?
- ... that the first fire department in Indianapolis was established seventeen months after the first fire in the city?
- ... that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana?
- ... that Vic Aldridge, nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?
- ... that despite holding "front-porch" speeches at his house (pictured) during his presidential campaign in 1888, Benjamin Harrison's home would not have a front porch until 1896?
- ... that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926?
- ... that Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning?
- ... that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State Forest (example pictured) and no one knows how they got there?
- ... that Hardy Lake is Indiana's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?
- ... that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier state?
- ... that Indiana's Muscatatuck State Park was the first Indiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even through it never charged admission?
- ... that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment of Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, along the Muscatatuck River, by selling waterfowl stamps?
- ... that a Confederate scouting party entered Indiana in June 1863 dressed as an Union army patrol searching for deserters?
- ... that Indiana's state parks were initially designed to preserve their natural state, but gradually began to include recreational activities?
- ... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?
- ... that 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?
- ...that two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison, are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District?
- ...that Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana?
- ...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
- ....that attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
- ...that 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
- ...that the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold?
- ...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial (pictured), which deteriorated during its building?
- ...that the Murat Centre is the only Shrine temple with a French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in North America?
- ...that the Zouave Guards of Indianapolis volunteered to fight before the American Civil War broke out, but their leader Francis A. Shoup (pictured) switched sides and joined the Confederates before the war began?
- ...that a blue line marks where Pogue's Run once ran through downtown Indianapolis?
- ...that the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
- ...that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
- ...that the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana?
- ...that four Indiana counties gave land to create Whitewater Memorial State Park as a memorial to fallen American soldiers of World War II?
- ...that Clark State Forest was Indiana's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment?
- ...that Caesars Indiana's The Glory of Rome is the largest riverboat in North America, and the largest riverboat casino in the world?
- ...that the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens?
- ...that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie?
- ...that the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War?
- ...that famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks?
- ...that Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
- ...that residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton, providing food, clothing, and nursing?
- ...that Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars?
- ...that Indianapolis' Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States?
- ...that the Indiana Historical Society is the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains?
- ...that Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid, using two stovepipes, charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War?
- ...that no commercial boat has beaten the steamboat Robert E. Lee's 1870 speed record between New Orleans and St. Louis of 90 hours and 14 minutes to this day?
- ...that during the American Civil War, Indiana, a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
- ...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
- ...that New Harmony's Atheneum is named after the ancient Greek temple to the goddess Athena, the Athenaion?
- ...that only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837?
- ...that the establishment of Camp Joe Holt, the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America, had to be done in Indiana?
- ...that despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?
- ...that Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States?
- ...that slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
- ...that German-born Richard Lieber, the founder of Indiana state parks, started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
- ...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
- ...that in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
Kentucky DYKs
- ... that the Union Monument in Vanceburg, Kentucky, is the only monument south of the Mason–Dixon line that honors Union soldiers that is not in a cemetery?
- ... that the 2007 dedication of the 1872-built Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, included Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher and the United States Army?
- ... that the Kentucky Railway Museum (pictured), next door to an historic hotel, features the official state locomotive of Kentucky, a "Jim Crow" car, a four-star hotel on rails, and the only gas-powered motor rail car in the southeastern United States?
- ... that Abraham Lincoln's "earliest recollection" was of his boyhood home Knob Creek Farm (pictured)?
- ... that during the Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad's last week of passenger service, the superintendent transported the train's passengers in his own private vehicle?
- ... that Lincoln Homestead State Park contains the house in which Abraham Lincoln's father Thomas proposed to his mother Nancy?
- ... that Hodgenville, Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln Statue (pictured) was built to celebrate the centennial of Lincoln's birth a few miles away?
- ... that Mordecai Lincoln House in Washington County is the only home of a member of Abraham Lincoln's family that still stands in Kentucky?
- ... that the Nancy Lincoln Inn was once deemed an "unacceptable adjacent commercialization" to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace N.H.S.?
- ... that the old stone jail in Bardstown, Kentucky, an active prison from 1819 to 1987, is the last stone jail in operation in Kentucky?
- ... that in 1785, men between 16 and 50, who were not ministers, were required to help build Bardstown, Kentucky's Cobblestone Path or be subject to a fine?
- ... that Bardstown, Kentucky's Wickland, namesake of Shelbyville, Kentucky's Wickland, was the home of three different U.S. state governors?
- ... that the Old L & N Station in Bardstown, Kentucky, was the state's only dry stone railroad station?
- ... that The Hunters of Kentucky, which commemorated the Battle of New Orleans, was used as Andrew Jackson's 1828 campaign song?
- ... that Kentucky's Great Saltpetre Cave, which produced saltpetre for the War of 1812, was later used to film part of the 1997 Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below?
- ... that during the Battle of New Haven, the fort the Confederate howitzer aimed at was not damaged, but the town's only hotel and bar were?
- ... that Kentucky's Cherokee State Park, now part of Kenlake State Resort Park, was the first blacks-only state park in the Southern United States?
- ... that the post office in Coxs Creek, Kentucky, had to be moved because it created many accidents along U.S. 31E?
- ... that the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Murray, Kentucky, is the only Civil War Monument in Kentucky to prominently feature Robert E. Lee?
- ... that the Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Kentucky was sculpted by a Hungarian?
- ... that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky, was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad?
- ... that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky, took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier?
- ... that the Confederate Memorial in Fulton, Kentucky is the only one in the state with a statue atop an arch?
- ... that in November 1864, Camp Nelson′s Union soldiers forced 400 ex-slaves outside its shelter, resulting in 102 exposure deaths?
- ... that the Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman, Kentucky took ten years and US$10,000 to build?
- ... that the Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky was once turned into a discothèque and a pizza parlor?
- ... that memorials to the Confederacy in Mayfield, Kentucky include a fountain and a series of cemetery gates?
- ... that Kentucky's Paducah Freight House was bigger than required because it was originally intended to service a larger rail network?
- ... that a riot at Paducah, Kentucky's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith?
- ... that Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
- ... that Camp Beauregard, an American Civil War camp in western Kentucky, was abandoned in less than six months due to over 1,000 cases of typhoid and pneumonia?
- ... that the Wooldridge Monuments have been dubbed "The Strange Procession Which Never Moves"?
- ... that the Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument, which honors Smith and the 10th Mississippi Infantry, is believed to be the second-biggest single-stone monument in the United States?
- ... that the William Forst House was the site where the Confederate government of Kentucky was founded, commemorated nearby with the Confederate Monument in Russellville?
- ... that among Lexington, Kentucky's contributions to the American Civil War were residents U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Confederate leaders John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan?
- ... that the Russellville Historic District in Kentucky, U.S. is the site of the first documented bank robbery of Jesse James?
- ... that visitors to the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky's historic district included King Louis-Philippe of France and Queen Marie of Romania?
- ... that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University?
- ... that D. W. Griffith bought a house for his mother that had been used as a funeral home?
- ... that Rob Morris's first home in La Grange, Kentucky was burned to the ground, and his books had to be saved by the Union army?
- ... that Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
- ... that magazines like the Southern Bivouac and the Southern Historical Society Papers helped to spread the belief of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy?
- ... that Confederate spy Thomas Hines (pictured, left) had to escape Detroit by ferryboat due to being confused with assassin John Wilkes Booth (pictured, right)?
- ... that after switching sides multiple times during the American Civil War, Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?
- ... that although on private property, the Unknown Confederate Dead Monument (pictured) outside Perryville, Kentucky was built by the federal government sixty-six years after the battle?
- ... that the Confederate Monument in Perryville was built by the government of Kentucky to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Perryville, and 5,000–10,000 people attended its dedication?
- ... that the Union Monument in Perryville is one of only seven monuments in Kentucky dedicated to Union soldiers, and it took an act of Congress to build it?
- ... that singer Elvis Presley (pictured) is said to have made an impromptu performance at Colonial Gardens in Louisville's Senning's Park, while visiting his nearby grandparents?
- ... that the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home, founded by the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, is the oldest Masonic Home foundation in North America?
- ... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
- ... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?
- ... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees, after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk?
- ... that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of the Zachary Taylor House, built by Richard Taylor?
- ... that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, except where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried?
- ... that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky?
- ... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?
- ... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
- ... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain?
- ... that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the 19th century?
- ... that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church?
- ... that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
- ... that among the ways the citizens of Danville, Kentucky memorialized Confederate forces locally included givng up their own grave plots?
- ... that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, and only one of four in the United States?
- ... that Kentucky's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County, but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination?
- ... that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky?
- ... that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
- ... that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
- ... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers?
- ... that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War?
- ... that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument (pictured)?
- ... that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
- ... that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
- ... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
- ... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
- ... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
- ... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
- ... that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
- ...that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
- ...that the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Cross of Honors than those from any other Kentucky county?
- ...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument (pictured) is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney?
- ...that the French once had an outpost called La Belle, where Louisville now stands?
- ...that the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere?
- ...that three-foot tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee?
- ...that when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?
- ...that the influx of Irish to Louisville (example of Irish-built housing pictured) led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860?
- ...that the Kentucky Irish American counted among its subscribers Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman?
- ...that Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War, even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?
- ...that the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky"?
- ...that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
- ...that the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district?
- ...that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
- ...that Louisville's Union Station was reported to be the largest such facility in the southern United States?
- ...that the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes?
- ...that Bullitt's Lick was the first industry and supplier of salt in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
- ...that the Pewee Valley Confederate Memorial 7is the only American Civil War obelisk monument in Kentucky to be made of zinc?
- ...that the hollow log pipes of the 1787 Mann's Lick salt furnace allegedly still existed in the 1940s?
- ...that over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky?
- ...that the Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Hart County, Kentucky is unique for being built with geodes, and for honoring a Louisiana soldier who died accidentally by his own rifle?
- ...that the story of Stephen Foster visiting what is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property?
- ...that Queen Elizabeth II was given a Louisville Stoneware musical box at the 2007 Kentucky Derby?
- ...that none of Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were ever used, as Louisville was never endangered while they existed?
- ..that the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky, the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition, has buildings modeled after London's Belgravia?
- ...that the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
- ...that the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky?
- ...that Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?
- ...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
- ...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy?
- ...that the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky, and the founding of what would become Morehead State University?
- ...that American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion"?
- ...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
- ...that the Prussian Nicola Marschall was the designer of the Confederate States of America's first flag, the Stars & Bars?
- ...that the United States Marine Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US?
- ...that the Louisville Water Tower is the oldest ornamental water tower in the world?
- ...that the 32nd Indiana Monument at Cave Hill Cemetery is the oldest surviving monument of the American Civil War?
- ...that the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race, held each year before the Kentucky Derby, is only 7 miles per hour?
Elsewhere
- ... that a persimmon regiment was a nickname for three Union army regiments that had an unusual fondness for eating persimmons?
- ... that six Prussians served as generals for the Union army in the American Civil War?
- ... that 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne?
- ... that the recently announced Marianna Fault in Arkansas was discovered due to the stretches of fine sand in otherwise fertile soil?
- ... that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
- ... that a bounty jumper, Adam Worth (pictured), became the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain Professor Moriarty?
- ... that chee kufta is an Armenian raw meat dish similar to steak tartare?
- ... that secessionists in St. Augustine, Florida, captured the town's fort (pictured) three days before Florida actually seceded from the United States?
- ... that American Civil War soldiers celebrated Christmas by using salt pork and hardtack as ornaments on Christmas trees?
- ...that George Julian Zolnay (pictured), the so-called "sculptor of the Confederacy," was actually Hungarian and did not move to the United States until decades after the Confederacy had ceased to exist?
- ... that among the ghost sightings involving the American Civil War are a ghost reenacting one of his defeats in a battle that took place 415 miles (668 km) away?
- ... that The Witchery of Archery, written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book about hunting with a bow ever published?
- ... that only three novels catering to soldiers' sexual proclivities during the American Civil War are known to still exist?
- ... that the American Civil War saw buglers (infantry band pictured) required to learn forty-nine separate calls for infantry alone?
- ... that salt workers in the Confederate States of America were immune from being drafted?
- ... that the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama?
- ... that over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War, though only 35 were killed in action?
- ... that due to the American Civil War, the Bahamas saw imports increase by a factor of 23, and exports increase by a factor of 29.6?
- ... that Union Army officials offered US$5,000 for the scalp of Confederate Cherokee William Holland Thomas?
- ... that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing" he ever heard of?
- ... that the last Confederate general to surrender, Stand Watie, did so in Oklahoma?
- ... that the last living veteran of the Civil War in Idaho died in 1952?
- ... that Union general John A. Logan seized a Confederate general's house as his headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina in 1865?
- ... that Charles Dickens once wrote that in Civil War-era Montana, a town was to be named after Varina Davis, the first lady of the Confederate States of America?
- ... that the Cheonhado is a type of circular world map developed in Korea during the 17th century that displays both real and fictional places?
- ... that after a gift of candles they sent was mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh Show, sales at Wicks n' More increased fivefold?
- ... that the Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial depicts the historical event of an Union officer aiding a Confederate officer at the Battle of Gettysburg, due to both being Freemasons?
- ... that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young mulatto ward named Jim Limber?
- ... that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, part of Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, was bequeathed to the public by Andrew Johnson's daughter?
- ... that Virginia City was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns?
- ... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson?
- ... that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the American Civil War was over a saloon?
- ... that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903?
- ... that by the time Fort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete?
- ... that Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower's whims?
- ... that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II?
- ... that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
- ... that after writing Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz was sued for calling Alberta Martin's husband a deserter in the book?
- ... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
- ...that Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park's Hillsman House still has bloodstains on its floor dating to its use as a hospital after the Battle of Sayler's Creek in April 1865?
- ...that the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia's First Baptist Church, due to a smallpox outbreak?
- ...that Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?
- ...that the captain of the steamboat Natchez would increase his boat's speed by putting bacon and hog fat in its engines, and giving his men whiskey?
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Indiana DYKs
- ... that in the case of Ex parte Milligan, the convictions of William A. Bowles, Harrison H. Dodd, and Lambdin P. Milligan (pictured) were thrown out?
- ... that half the pioneers who settled in northwestern Indiana used the Michigan Road?
- ... that Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial (pictured) marks where Abraham Lincoln lived in Indiana, and where his sister and birth mother died?
- ... that the Milton-Madison Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 421 across the Ohio River, is considered structurally poor and unable to handle modern truck traffic?
- ... that the Indiana Rangers inspired the creation of the more famous Texas Rangers?
- ... that to defend Indiana during the War of 1812, Governor Harrison (pictured) had to recruit militia from Kentucky as those from Indiana would not join the army?
- ... that unlike most historical homes, the Paul Dresser Birthplace (pictured) in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, reflects the furnishings of a working class family, not the well-to-do?
- ... that sugar cream pie is being considered to become the official state pie of Indiana, USA?
- ... that the power station that powered the Terminal Arcade's interurbans from 1907 to 1940 had a 999-year lease?
- ... that the Abbott-Holloway Farm has two of the only four pre-1840 buildings in Bethlehem, Indiana, that were not destroyed by fire or tornado?
- ... that two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?
- ... that the Bell Ford Bridge was the last Post Truss covered bridge to still stand, collapsing in January 2006?
- ... that the Grand Lodge of Indiana was started at the Schofield House of Madison, Indiana's historic district on January 13, 1818?
- ... that Stream Cliff Farm is the oldest herb farm in Indiana?
- ... that the Crawford-Gilpin House is alleged to have once changed owners due to being lost as a wager in a poker game?
- ... that the residents of Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1860 built a new school right next to a preexisting cemetery?
- ... that an Indianapolis architect was sent to Château de Malmaison to replicate a copy of it in Indianapolis' Washington Park neighborhood?
- ... that the base of the main memorial (pictured) at George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, designed by Frederic Charles Hirons, has a dirt floor?
- ... that an owner of the DeForest Skinner House was once the youngest railroad director in the United States?
- ... that Harold's Steer-In in Indianapolis' North Irvington Gardens Historic District was the site of a 2005 MasterCard commercial featuring quarterback Peyton Manning?
- ... that the Dr. Nelson Wilson House is unusual for having Eastlake stickwork done in brick instead of wood?
- ... that construction of the courthouse (pictured) of the Rochester Downtown Historic District may have spurred nearby buildings to have faux stones cemented upon them?
- ... that the first fire department in Indianapolis was established seventeen months after the first fire in the city?
- ... that Pryor Brock Farmstead is the best representation of a farmstead, with Italianate buildings, around Zionsville, Indiana?
- ... that Vic Aldridge, nicknamed the "Hoosier Schoolmaster", had the worst seventh game start for a pitcher in World Series history?
- ... that despite holding "front-porch" speeches at his house (pictured) during his presidential campaign in 1888, Benjamin Harrison's home would not have a front porch until 1896?
- ... that five thousand people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926?
- ... that Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning?
- ... that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State Forest (example pictured) and no one knows how they got there?
- ... that Hardy Lake is Indiana's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?
- ... that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier state?
- ... that Indiana's Muscatatuck State Park was the first Indiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even through it never charged admission?
- ... that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment of Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, along the Muscatatuck River, by selling waterfowl stamps?
- ... that a Confederate scouting party entered Indiana in June 1863 dressed as an Union army patrol searching for deserters?
- ... that Indiana's state parks were initially designed to preserve their natural state, but gradually began to include recreational activities?
- ... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States?
- ... that 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?
- ...that two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison, are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District?
- ...that Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana?
- ...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
- ....that attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
- ...that 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
- ...that the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold?
- ...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial (pictured), which deteriorated during its building?
- ...that the Murat Centre is the only Shrine temple with a French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in North America?
- ...that the Zouave Guards of Indianapolis volunteered to fight before the American Civil War broke out, but their leader Francis A. Shoup (pictured) switched sides and joined the Confederates before the war began?
- ...that a blue line marks where Pogue's Run once ran through downtown Indianapolis?
- ...that the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
- ...that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
- ...that the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana?
- ...that four Indiana counties gave land to create Whitewater Memorial State Park as a memorial to fallen American soldiers of World War II?
- ...that Clark State Forest was Indiana's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment?
- ...that Caesars Indiana's The Glory of Rome is the largest riverboat in North America, and the largest riverboat casino in the world?
- ...that the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens?
- ...that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie?
- ...that the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War?
- ...that famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks?
- ...that Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
- ...that residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton, providing food, clothing, and nursing?
- ...that Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars?
- ...that Indianapolis' Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States?
- ...that the Indiana Historical Society is the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains?
- ...that Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid, using two stovepipes, charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War?
- ...that no commercial boat has beaten the steamboat Robert E. Lee's 1870 speed record between New Orleans and St. Louis of 90 hours and 14 minutes to this day?
- ...that during the American Civil War, Indiana, a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
- ...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
- ...that New Harmony's Atheneum is named after the ancient Greek temple to the goddess Athena, the Athenaion?
- ...that only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837?
- ...that the establishment of Camp Joe Holt, the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America, had to be done in Indiana?
- ...that despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?
- ...that Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States?
- ...that slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
- ...that German-born Richard Lieber, the founder of Indiana state parks, started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
- ...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana?
- ...that in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
Kentucky DYKs
- ... that the Union Monument in Vanceburg, Kentucky, is the only monument south of the Mason–Dixon line that honors Union soldiers that is not in a cemetery?
- ... that the 2007 dedication of the 1872-built Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard, Kentucky, included Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher and the United States Army?
- ... that the Kentucky Railway Museum (pictured), next door to an historic hotel, features the official state locomotive of Kentucky, a "Jim Crow" car, a four-star hotel on rails, and the only gas-powered motor rail car in the southeastern United States?
- ... that Abraham Lincoln's "earliest recollection" was of his boyhood home Knob Creek Farm (pictured)?
- ... that during the Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad's last week of passenger service, the superintendent transported the train's passengers in his own private vehicle?
- ... that Lincoln Homestead State Park contains the house in which Abraham Lincoln's father Thomas proposed to his mother Nancy?
- ... that Hodgenville, Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln Statue (pictured) was built to celebrate the centennial of Lincoln's birth a few miles away?
- ... that Mordecai Lincoln House in Washington County is the only home of a member of Abraham Lincoln's family that still stands in Kentucky?
- ... that the Nancy Lincoln Inn was once deemed an "unacceptable adjacent commercialization" to the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace N.H.S.?
- ... that the old stone jail in Bardstown, Kentucky, an active prison from 1819 to 1987, is the last stone jail in operation in Kentucky?
- ... that in 1785, men between 16 and 50, who were not ministers, were required to help build Bardstown, Kentucky's Cobblestone Path or be subject to a fine?
- ... that Bardstown, Kentucky's Wickland, namesake of Shelbyville, Kentucky's Wickland, was the home of three different U.S. state governors?
- ... that the Old L & N Station in Bardstown, Kentucky, was the state's only dry stone railroad station?
- ... that The Hunters of Kentucky, which commemorated the Battle of New Orleans, was used as Andrew Jackson's 1828 campaign song?
- ... that Kentucky's Great Saltpetre Cave, which produced saltpetre for the War of 1812, was later used to film part of the 1997 Steven Seagal film Fire Down Below?
- ... that during the Battle of New Haven, the fort the Confederate howitzer aimed at was not damaged, but the town's only hotel and bar were?
- ... that Kentucky's Cherokee State Park, now part of Kenlake State Resort Park, was the first blacks-only state park in the Southern United States?
- ... that the post office in Coxs Creek, Kentucky, had to be moved because it created many accidents along U.S. 31E?
- ... that the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Murray, Kentucky, is the only Civil War Monument in Kentucky to prominently feature Robert E. Lee?
- ... that the Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Kentucky was sculpted by a Hungarian?
- ... that the first railroad depot in Stanford, Kentucky, was built due to a compromise between Union general Ambrose Burnside and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad?
- ... that the Confederate Memorial in Nicholasville, Kentucky, took sixteen years to fund, and was originally a statue of a Union soldier?
- ... that the Confederate Memorial in Fulton, Kentucky is the only one in the state with a statue atop an arch?
- ... that in November 1864, Camp Nelson′s Union soldiers forced 400 ex-slaves outside its shelter, resulting in 102 exposure deaths?
- ... that the Confederate Memorial Gateway in Hickman, Kentucky took ten years and US$10,000 to build?
- ... that the Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky was once turned into a discothèque and a pizza parlor?
- ... that memorials to the Confederacy in Mayfield, Kentucky include a fountain and a series of cemetery gates?
- ... that Kentucky's Paducah Freight House was bigger than required because it was originally intended to service a larger rail network?
- ... that a riot at Paducah, Kentucky's Woolfolk Home led to Ulysses S. Grant's promotion above his superior officer, Brigadier General Charles Ferguson Smith?
- ... that Paducah, Kentucky's Lloyd Tilghman Memorial honors a Marylander, and was built by an English immigrant from Boston?
- ... that Camp Beauregard, an American Civil War camp in western Kentucky, was abandoned in less than six months due to over 1,000 cases of typhoid and pneumonia?
- ... that the Wooldridge Monuments have been dubbed "The Strange Procession Which Never Moves"?
- ... that the Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument, which honors Smith and the 10th Mississippi Infantry, is believed to be the second-biggest single-stone monument in the United States?
- ... that the William Forst House was the site where the Confederate government of Kentucky was founded, commemorated nearby with the Confederate Monument in Russellville?
- ... that among Lexington, Kentucky's contributions to the American Civil War were residents U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Confederate leaders John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan?
- ... that the Russellville Historic District in Kentucky, U.S. is the site of the first documented bank robbery of Jesse James?
- ... that visitors to the Old Talbott Tavern in Bardstown, Kentucky's historic district included King Louis-Philippe of France and Queen Marie of Romania?
- ... that horseshoeing was among the courses taught at the Masonic University?
- ... that D. W. Griffith bought a house for his mother that had been used as a funeral home?
- ... that Rob Morris's first home in La Grange, Kentucky was burned to the ground, and his books had to be saved by the Union army?
- ... that Kentucky judge John Milton Elliott was murdered by a fellow judge after adjudicating in a case involving the latter's sister?
- ... that magazines like the Southern Bivouac and the Southern Historical Society Papers helped to spread the belief of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy?
- ... that Confederate spy Thomas Hines (pictured, left) had to escape Detroit by ferryboat due to being confused with assassin John Wilkes Booth (pictured, right)?
- ... that after switching sides multiple times during the American Civil War, Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?
- ... that although on private property, the Unknown Confederate Dead Monument (pictured) outside Perryville, Kentucky was built by the federal government sixty-six years after the battle?
- ... that the Confederate Monument in Perryville was built by the government of Kentucky to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Perryville, and 5,000–10,000 people attended its dedication?
- ... that the Union Monument in Perryville is one of only seven monuments in Kentucky dedicated to Union soldiers, and it took an act of Congress to build it?
- ... that singer Elvis Presley (pictured) is said to have made an impromptu performance at Colonial Gardens in Louisville's Senning's Park, while visiting his nearby grandparents?
- ... that the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home, founded by the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, is the oldest Masonic Home foundation in North America?
- ... that Riverside Drive Historic District in Covington, Kentucky marks where the first white settlers in the Cincinnati area lived?
- ... that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?
- ... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named after a woman who escaped from Cherokees, after her three-month-old child was killed by tomahawk?
- ... that less than an acre remains of the original 400-acre (160 ha) property of the Zachary Taylor House, built by Richard Taylor?
- ... that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, except where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried?
- ... that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky?
- ... that the Latham Confederate Monument of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers?
- ... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there?
- ... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain?
- ... that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the 19th century?
- ... that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church?
- ... that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment?
- ... that among the ways the citizens of Danville, Kentucky memorialized Confederate forces locally included givng up their own grave plots?
- ... that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, and only one of four in the United States?
- ... that Kentucky's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County, but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination?
- ... that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky?
- ... that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932?
- ... that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards?
- ... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers?
- ... that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War?
- ... that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument (pictured)?
- ... that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862?
- ... that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War?
- ... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
- ... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark?
- ... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
- ... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
- ... that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
- ...that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
- ...that the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Cross of Honors than those from any other Kentucky county?
- ...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument (pictured) is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney?
- ...that the French once had an outpost called La Belle, where Louisville now stands?
- ...that the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere?
- ...that three-foot tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee?
- ...that when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?
- ...that the influx of Irish to Louisville (example of Irish-built housing pictured) led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860?
- ...that the Kentucky Irish American counted among its subscribers Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman?
- ...that Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War, even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?
- ...that the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky"?
- ...that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated?
- ...that the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district?
- ...that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
- ...that Louisville's Union Station was reported to be the largest such facility in the southern United States?
- ...that the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes?
- ...that Bullitt's Lick was the first industry and supplier of salt in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky?
- ...that the Pewee Valley Confederate Memorial 7is the only American Civil War obelisk monument in Kentucky to be made of zinc?
- ...that the hollow log pipes of the 1787 Mann's Lick salt furnace allegedly still existed in the 1940s?
- ...that over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky?
- ...that the Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Hart County, Kentucky is unique for being built with geodes, and for honoring a Louisiana soldier who died accidentally by his own rifle?
- ...that the story of Stephen Foster visiting what is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property?
- ...that Queen Elizabeth II was given a Louisville Stoneware musical box at the 2007 Kentucky Derby?
- ...that none of Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were ever used, as Louisville was never endangered while they existed?
- ..that the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky, the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition, has buildings modeled after London's Belgravia?
- ...that the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
- ...that the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky?
- ...that Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?
- ...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
- ...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy?
- ...that the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky, and the founding of what would become Morehead State University?
- ...that American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion"?
- ...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
- ...that the Prussian Nicola Marschall was the designer of the Confederate States of America's first flag, the Stars & Bars?
- ...that the United States Marine Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US?
- ...that the Louisville Water Tower is the oldest ornamental water tower in the world?
- ...that the 32nd Indiana Monument at Cave Hill Cemetery is the oldest surviving monument of the American Civil War?
- ...that the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race, held each year before the Kentucky Derby, is only 7 miles per hour?
Elsewhere
- ... that a persimmon regiment was a nickname for three Union army regiments that had an unusual fondness for eating persimmons?
- ... that six Prussians served as generals for the Union army in the American Civil War?
- ... that 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne?
- ... that the recently announced Marianna Fault in Arkansas was discovered due to the stretches of fine sand in otherwise fertile soil?
- ... that although composed in late 1812, the popular Canadian War of 1812 song The Bold Canadian was not published until 1907, and not fully until 1927?
- ... that a bounty jumper, Adam Worth (pictured), became the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain Professor Moriarty?
- ... that chee kufta is an Armenian raw meat dish similar to steak tartare?
- ... that secessionists in St. Augustine, Florida, captured the town's fort (pictured) three days before Florida actually seceded from the United States?
- ... that American Civil War soldiers celebrated Christmas by using salt pork and hardtack as ornaments on Christmas trees?
- ...that George Julian Zolnay (pictured), the so-called "sculptor of the Confederacy," was actually Hungarian and did not move to the United States until decades after the Confederacy had ceased to exist?
- ... that among the ghost sightings involving the American Civil War are a ghost reenacting one of his defeats in a battle that took place 415 miles (668 km) away?
- ... that The Witchery of Archery, written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book about hunting with a bow ever published?
- ... that only three novels catering to soldiers' sexual proclivities during the American Civil War are known to still exist?
- ... that the American Civil War saw buglers (infantry band pictured) required to learn forty-nine separate calls for infantry alone?
- ... that salt workers in the Confederate States of America were immune from being drafted?
- ... that the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home was the only home for Confederate veterans in Alabama?
- ... that over 3,000 Nebraskans participated in the American Civil War, though only 35 were killed in action?
- ... that due to the American Civil War, the Bahamas saw imports increase by a factor of 23, and exports increase by a factor of 29.6?
- ... that Union Army officials offered US$5,000 for the scalp of Confederate Cherokee William Holland Thomas?
- ... that Abraham Lincoln called the Beefsteak Raid "the slickest piece of cattle-stealing" he ever heard of?
- ... that the last Confederate general to surrender, Stand Watie, did so in Oklahoma?
- ... that the last living veteran of the Civil War in Idaho died in 1952?
- ... that Union general John A. Logan seized a Confederate general's house as his headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina in 1865?
- ... that Charles Dickens once wrote that in Civil War-era Montana, a town was to be named after Varina Davis, the first lady of the Confederate States of America?
- ... that the Cheonhado is a type of circular world map developed in Korea during the 17th century that displays both real and fictional places?
- ... that after a gift of candles they sent was mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh Show, sales at Wicks n' More increased fivefold?
- ... that the Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial depicts the historical event of an Union officer aiding a Confederate officer at the Battle of Gettysburg, due to both being Freemasons?
- ... that Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young mulatto ward named Jim Limber?
- ... that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, part of Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, was bequeathed to the public by Andrew Johnson's daughter?
- ... that Virginia City was the prototype for future urban/industrial boomtowns?
- ... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson?
- ... that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the American Civil War was over a saloon?
- ... that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903?
- ... that by the time Fort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete?
- ... that Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower's whims?
- ... that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II?
- ... that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century?
- ... that after writing Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz was sued for calling Alberta Martin's husband a deserter in the book?
- ... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
- ...that Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park's Hillsman House still has bloodstains on its floor dating to its use as a hospital after the Battle of Sayler's Creek in April 1865?
- ...that the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia's First Baptist Church, due to a smallpox outbreak?
- ...that Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?
- ...that the captain of the steamboat Natchez would increase his boat's speed by putting bacon and hog fat in its engines, and giving his men whiskey?
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