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Rodes Collection (Mss 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rodes Collection (Mss 427), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 427. Correspondence, photographs, and business and personal papers, primarily of Robert Rodes, Sr. of Danville, Kentucky, and John Barret Rodes of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Robert Rodes's correspondence includes letters outlining his fear of an invasion of Bowling Green by Confederate forces, 1861 (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts). Also includes material related to Rodes ancestors and descendants, as well as to members of the Grider, Hines, Helm, Loving and associated families.
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2647), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2647. Reminiscence of Alfred Leland Crabb, Jr. of a visit to the Warren County, Kentucky farm of his grandfather, James Wade Crabb, in the mid-1920s.
Hendricks Collection (Sc 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hendricks Collection (Sc 65), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 65. Warren County, Kentucky, tax receipt of Fred Hespian [Hespen], 1868, and undated ticket issued by the Evansville, Cairo and Memphis Packet Company's steamer "Quickstep."
Hall's Chapel School District - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hall's Chapel School District - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 64), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below)for Manuscripts Small Collection 64. A subscribers' list giving amount of money pledged to pay to John W. Sharrer to teach a three-months school at Hall's Chapel, Warren County, Kentucky.
Rigsby, Clinton, 1882-1970 (Sc 2643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rigsby, Clinton, 1882-1970 (Sc 2643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2643. Personal and business correspondence as well as financial records kept by Clinton Rigsby, a farmer, salesman, and accountant of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes informationabout the strawberry industry in Warren County as well as the Mrs. A.H. Taylor & Company, a dressmaking establishment of Bowling Green.
Warren County, Kentucky - Deeds (Sc 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Deeds (Sc 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 54. Copy of deed, 22 December 1862, conveying land in Warren County, Kentucky, from George [sic] Ann Davenport, William Davenport and Mary Benton to Henrietta Benton as part of a division of lands under the will of James Ford.
Stahl Family Papers (Sc 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stahl Family Papers (Sc 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 602. Civil War letters, 1861-1865 (5 items), pertaining to activities in Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas Territory; letters of the Stahl family of Warren County, Kentucky, 1861-1863 (2); Warren County tax receipts, 1865-1898 (10); deeds and legal papers pertaining to the Stahl family place, 1863-1954 (17); and letters concerning the collection, 1973 (2).
Willian, John Edwin Bruce, 1858-1922 (Sc 765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Willian, John Edwin Bruce, 1858-1922 (Sc 765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 765. Correspondence of John Edwin Bruce Willian, Buffalo, Larue County, and his wife, Ruth (Whitlow) Willian
(Oakland, Warren County) 1910-1920 (18), letters to Ruth Willian, 1904-1914 (6), graduation invitation (1905), valedictory n.d., deposit slips, lumber statement (1915), and menu, 1918.
Robinson, Lucille (Tubb), 1896-1981 (Sc 764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robinson, Lucille (Tubb), 1896-1981 (Sc 764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 764. Speech by Lucille Robinson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled, “The History of the Warren County Courthouse.”
Moss, John Mckenzie, 1868-1929 (Sc 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moss, John Mckenzie, 1868-1929 (Sc 518), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 518. Papers of John McKenzie Moss, lawyer, judge, and politician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Notice of his contest of election, 3rd Congressional District, 1900; letters to Moss pertaining chiefly to politics, 1902-1903; letter of Moss to lawyer, 1902.
Galloway, John Marshall, 1844-1937 (Sc 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Galloway, John Marshall, 1844-1937 (Sc 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 519. Business papers of John M. Galloway, lawyer and judge of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which include petition for election to enable county to purchase railroad stock, 1889; 1890 stock certificates and a 1901 deposition related to Warren Deposit Bank; Peter Perkins’ will, 1891; judgeship certificate, 1903; newspaper clippings and photos kept by Mrs. Galloway, 1873-1930.
Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carter, Nell Bohannon, 1898-1995 (Sc 2585), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2585. Teacher’s register and gradebook of Nell Bohannon Carter, believed to be from a Smiths Grove, Kentucky or Barren County, Kentucky school. Includes absence note from the mother of a student.
Mammoth Cave - Deeds (Sc 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mammoth Cave - Deeds (Sc 733), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 733. Photocopies of Warren County, Kentucky, deeds, 1799-1814, pertaining to Mammoth Cave, beginning with the original 200 acres entered by Valentine Simon by virtue of a Commissioner’s Certificate.
Warren County, Kentucky - Maps (Sc 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Maps (Sc 732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 732. Original holographic maps of the towns of Jeffersonville, 1805? and Bowling Green, 1807, in Warren County, Kentucky. Also holographic copies of early plans of Bowling Green, n.d., and of an order which designates prison bounds for the county, 1814.
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of one document only (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 734. Minutes kept by the Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee composed of ladies' auxiliaries from the Kentucky counties of Logan, Simpson and Warren.
Rue, Elizabeth Waitt, 1894-1980 (Sc 2583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rue, Elizabeth Waitt, 1894-1980 (Sc 2583), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2583. Bound holographic copy of a paper titled “History of the Development and Growth of Warren County Kentucky as Recorded in Deed Books I through XVI…”, given by Elizabeth Waitt Rue, Bowling Green, Kentucky, before the Daughters of the American Revolution. Paper highlights the development of business and judicial transactions with individuals and institutions in Warren County, and includes information about marriages, the Shakers, churches, schools, and other miscellaneous information.
Mcmurtry, Horace (Sc 2575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcmurtry, Horace (Sc 2575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2575. Paper titled: “Warren County, Kentucky,” written by Horace McMurtry. This paper discusses the geography, history, agriculture, and social life and customs of Warren County.
Thomas, Frank Morehead, 1868-1921 (Sc 500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Frank Morehead, 1868-1921 (Sc 500), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 500. Paper written by Frank Morehead Thomas in 1898 titled "The Early Exploration of Warren County, Kentucky."
Warren County, Kentucky Court Records - Civil War Indictments (Mss 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky Court Records - Civil War Indictments (Mss 412), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 412. Criminal and Equity Court, and Circuit Court records of Warren County, Kentucky relating to the prosecution of Confederate soldiers and sympathizers for conspiracy, treason, theft and property destruction in Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War.
Coles Warehouse - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coles Warehouse - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 493. Receipt from Coles Warehouse, Big Barren River, to the executors of Henry Worthall, for tobacco received. Signed by John Cole and George Russell as inspectors.
Johnson, Arthur Lyle, 1900-1938 (Sc 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Johnson, Arthur Lyle, 1900-1938 (Sc 492), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 492. Deed, 9 July 1932, of land in Warren County, Kentucky, between Arthur and Bessie Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri and Georgia Johnson of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Causey, Lewis Kenneth, 1904-1974 (Sc 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Causey, Lewis Kenneth, 1904-1974 (Sc 487), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full text scan (click on "Additional Files") of speech for Manuscripts Small Collection 487. Speech given by Lewis Kenneth Causey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, entitled "Historical Review of the Bowling Green-Warren County Airport," covering the years 1932 to 1970. Also copy of original, with notations, done by son Robert Causey in 2001.
Johnson, Calvin, 1770-1860 (Sc 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Johnson, Calvin, 1770-1860 (Sc 485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 485. Deed, 1813, by which Richard Owings sold 122 acres in Warren County, Kentucky, to Calvin Johnson; and deed, 1851, by which Johnson sold 222 acres in Simpson County, Kentucky, to his son-in-law Henry May.
Young Family Papers (Sc 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Young Family Papers (Sc 475), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 475. Receipt for tobacco transportation, 1817, and diary of river trip from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Natchez, Mississippi, March 14 – April 13, 1817; newspaper article about western travels by father and son, 1850 & 1940, August 29, 1940; and genealogy of
George C. Young family, Barren County (original).
Thomas, Walter (Sc 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Walter (Sc 479), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 479. Certificate of appointment for Walter Thomas as Coroner of Warren County, 1812, and certificate of appointment as Justice of the Peace in Warren County, 1814. Both certificates are signed by Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky.
Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 379. Personal and family correspondence, papers, and genealogical research materials of Nora (Young) Ferguson, a native of Richardsville, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes original land, estate and guardianship records, and other early county records which Mrs. Ferguson was permitted to remove from the Warren County Courthouse for microfilming prior to its renovation in 1957. Click on "Additional Files" below to see receipts from the Warren County "Poor House."
Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Burnam, John Quincy, 1804-1891 (Sc 431), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 431. Title bond to be used before 25 December 1873. Document explains that John Quincy Burnam, Warren County, Kentucky, sold about 202 acres of land to Thomas H. Gaines, Logan County, Kentucky.
Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cherry, Joseph T., 1849-1931 (Sc 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 430. Teacher’s certificate for Joseph T. Cherry, Warren County, Kentucky, issued for first class, first grade. Renewed 8 October 1880.
Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 639. Typescript notice issued by the Warren County Klan of the Ku Klux Klan of the realm of Kentucky concerning a scheduled meeting of their organization in the Opera House at Bowling Green that was canceled because of influence exerted by the Catholics and Jews in Bowling Green.
Causey, Alonzo M., 1870-1972 (Sc 622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Causey, Alonzo M., 1870-1972 (Sc 622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 622. Correspondence and clippings of letters written to newspaper editors and various people by Alonzo M. Causey of Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1935-1972 (39) and letter and press conference summary written in French and sent in reply to letter of Causey’s to Charles de Gaulle, 1966 (4). Click on "Additional Files" below to see Spanish-American War related material in this small collection.