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The Village School/
Nurses Quarters
200 W. Union Street
This building
was constructed
in 1833 and
was used as the
nurses quarters
in the Civil War.
It consisted of
two separate
chambers with
a dogtrot passage between. This building supplemented
the Presbyterian Church when it was
the field hospital. Before the war it was a school,
on room for girls and one for boys. The floors were
made of poured clay. Among students who attended
the school were the future Generals Wood
and Buckner who attended secondary school here
before they were admitted to West Point. In the
1900’s, it was converted into a home.
Thomas Bolin Munford
House
217 Washington Street
This house
was built
around 1823
by Thomas
Munford, the
brother of
the founder
of Munfordville.
It is
built of logs covered by the present exterior. The
interior walls are 16 inches thick. This home predates
all the large brick homes in town.
Francis Asberry Smith
House
205 Washington Street
This house was built around 1835. This date was
impressed upon several bricks during construction.
One of the several tunnels used by the
Union army
e x t e n d e d
uphill to the
Presbyterian
Church.
It was used
both by the
Union and
Co n fe d e rate
officers
during the Civil War.
Old Munfordville Inn
108 S. Washington Street
The inn was built in 1810. It is a two-story double
log house with a central chimney between
the two original wings. According to legend, it was
one of the most famous inns of what was known
as “the West”. It was renowned for its food and
hospitality. The inn entertained many of the most
significant travelers of the 19th Century including
famed opera singer Jenny Lind.
Richard Munford House
101 S. West Street
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This house was built circa 1830. It was occupied
during the Civil War by Brigadier General R. W.
Johnson and other senior officers. This house reportedly
has a tunnel from its basement to an
opening on the river bluff and may have been used
by escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad.
General Johnson
was sent
to Munfordville
to clear
the area of
Confederates
before General
Buell’s advance
south.
J.T.S. & Elizabeth
Creel Brown House
121 W. Old Street
Built around 1825, this house was a prototype for
the Richard Munford House. It was built to face the
old buffalo
trail which
later became
known as the
Amos’ Ferry
Road.
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Hart County circuit court was held here in
April, 1819. The Creel Cabin is possibly the oldest
structure in Munfordville. Built of poplar logs, it
was undisturbed
by termites.
It has
two rooms
upstairs and
two down, a
full basement
and a double
chimney of
which one has fallen.
AAmos’ Ferry Site
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100 River Road
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In 1806, Revolutionary War veteran, Thomas
Woodson, donated the land for the formal establishment
of a passenger ferry across the river,
In 1806
taking advantage of the ancient river ford at the
bottom of the bluff. The ferry served for more than
a century. It even continued when the military
erected the pontoon bridges during the Civil War.
When the Green River Bridge was erected in 1907,
that brought to an end the old ferry as it passed
into history.
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