MUNFORDVILLE
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Chapline Building
109 Main Street
This historic building is the starting point for the
Old Munfordville Walking Tour. The Chapline Building
houses the Hart County Historical Museum.
Take a few minutes to explore the museum as it
reveals the rich history of Munfordville and Hart
County. You will also find a selection of in-depth
booklets and other resources to help expand your
knowledge of the Green River region and its history.
Also at the museum is the Hart County Historical
Society Genealogical Library with over 1,000
surname files and 300 family history books. Stop in
and find your ancestors.
This building was built in the early 1890’s using
bricks from the first courthouse. The bricks were
made of local clay and were fired in a kiln at the
old fairgrounds. This building has been home to a
bakery, a dry-goods store, newspaper office, congressman’s
office and telephone exchange. Today
it is home to the Hart County Historical Society.
NOTE: While the Chapline Building is open to the public, the
other properties on the tour are private. Please respect the
owners and do not trespass.
Courthouse Fountain
When Simon Bolivar Buckner was a boy fetching
water from the Green River, he resolved when he
became a man, he would build a fountain for the
public so no one would have to fetch water again.
In 1985, he was
a civil engineer
and personally
superintended
and paid for the
public fountain
in the courthouse
square.
A reservoir and
wa t e r wo r k s
plant with a water
wheel was
constructed at
the mouth of the
spring to pump
water through
wooden pipes.
George T. Wood House
Built in 1834, this
was the house of
George T. & Henrietta
Helm Wood,
whose son, Thomas
J. Wood attained
the rank of
Major General in
the Union Army.
As a child, Brigadier
General Simon
Bolivar Buckner
often spent
the week there
while he attended
the local school.
During the war, the men were pitted against each
other at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Had the
Confederates not left Munfordville in September,
1862, the two would have met in battle of their
old playground. George Wood, whose wife was
the sister of Kentucky Governor Charles Helm, was
active as county clerk from the time Hart County
was formed in 1819. Camp Wood is located North
of the house. It was Thomas J. Wood’s playground
as a boy and campsite as a man.
HHart County Deposit
BBank Building
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The Bank Building is dated around 1895 as the
first banking facility in Munfordville. It is one of
five Victorian commercial buildings remaining in
town and one of
two with cast iron
pillars. The building
is three bays wide
on the second floor,
four on the first
floor, which features
cast iron pilasters
at the end and
slender colonettes
separating the
bays. The second
floor windows have
heavy cornices. The
structure sits on a
native stone foundation.
It is on the
National Register of Historic Places and a Certified
KY Landmark.
Presbyterian Church
Union Hospital
122 W. Union Street
This church was built in 1834 as a joint effort by
the Presbyterian congregation and Green River
Masonic Lodge. The first floor was the church and
the second floor was the lodge.
During the Civil
War, the building
was used as
the Union Hospital.
The winter
of 1861-62 was
unusually severe
with thousands of
soldiers living in
flimsy tents. Many
of the men cam
down with rheumatism,
pneumonia,
measles,
mumps, and dysentery.
Only one
gunshot victim was admitted. The last medical
personnel did not leave until 1865, six months after
the war was over.
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