This is a memorial abd from what o gather the actual burial site of batdstown Kentucky native Lt…read moreJohn Fitch. Located directly across the street from the old bardstown Kentucky city hall and now welcome center this memorial stands tall and proud alone. Overall very cool honor for the historical figure lt John Fitch that shows the proudness his hometown holds for him.

This is a fairly large grave memorial right in the heart of town of Bardstown Kentucky. I didn't…read moreread much up on it, but I thought it was so late to take a picture with and put it on yelp

Our group of friends ventured from Louisville to Bardstown to enjoy a full day of adventure in this…read morelovely town. We participated in an afternoon tour of My Old Kentucky Home and received a group rate of $12 per person since we purchased at least 10 tickets. The tour of the home is self-guided and typically takes less than an hour and then can allow extra time if needed to check out the grounds and/or the gift shop. On this day, however, we had a wonderful tour guide who was impressive with her knowledge about the house and the residents. The house is beautifully maintained and the grounds are also pristine. The visitor center had seating with the option to view a film while waiting. There is also a gift shop filled to the brim with a multitude of items. Plenty of parking. Restroom facilities are well maintained. Overall, a well maintained historical property.

On a recent trip to Bardstown, the wife wanted to see Federal Hill, the manison in "My Old Kentucky…read moreHome State Park". According to KY legend, Stephen Foster wrote the song "My Old Kentucky Home" that became the offical state song, while staying at Federal Hill. The park has a beautiful visitors center and the staff in the visitors center was very welcoming and quite knowledgeable. Unfortunately, the timing didn't work for us to take a tour of the manison (hours are on the hour and last 45 minutes). We missed the 2pm tour and couldn't do the 3pm tour since we needed to be back in Louisville to pick up the grandkids. We did, however, take a walking tour of the grounds and we got to see the outside of the manison, the gazebo, the spring house and the Stephen Foster statue. We were there on a beautiful (70 degree) day in February. Despite today's beautiful weather, the gardens still thought it was winter. We want to come back when the gardens are in bloom and when we have time to take a tour of the manison. Admission to the state park and the grounds is FREE. There is a charge for a guided tour of the manison.

We had a nice time visiting Abraham Lincoln boyhood home. It was off the side of the road while we…read morewere driving around exploring the area. Didn't really know what to expect but we got out. Took a few photos. Had a good time.

This is a small park compared with the Birthplace Historical Site nearby. There's plenty of parking…read moreright off the road, and it's completely free to visit. It seems that this location is not open as consistently as the Birthplace Historical Site nearby. It was closed on the day that we happened to be around, but we were still able to park and walk around. There's a visitor center / gift shop and a replica cabin representing Lincoln's boyhood home. Beyond that, there are some trails and an overlook onto a prairie, but overall the park is small. It's worth a stop if you are in the area visiting other Lincoln sites, but it's less impressive than the Birthplace Historical Site nearby.

Stop by the HRC cafe for lunch last week with co-workers and this place is good. I had a self-made…read moresalad (spinach, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, green bell peppers, hard-boiled eggs, & sunflower seeds) with dressing. It was wing day so I had a variety of different wings (bbq and cardinal hot) and it went well with the salad. I think they also had other stuff available, but that was my first time going to HRC for lunch so I didn't stray away from what I went for. I will definitely be back. Oh, before I forget, the HRC Cafe has a different menu everyday so before you head out check out the mwr site to see what's for lunch! Enjoy: http://www.knoxmwr.com/Dining/tabid/150/Default.aspx

A wonderful place to work; this organization moved to Fort Knox around 2009 and it presented a…read moretremendous opportunity to the local economy and surrounding area. Many changes have been brought about in large part because of HRC's presence at Fort Knox. It provide an extremely important function to the Army and its Soldiers. Mission Execute career management, sustainment, distribution, and transition of personnel in order to optimize Army personnel readiness, enable leader development, and strengthen an agile and versatile Army that can Prevent, Shape, and Win. Vision Total Army ...Total Victory A Team of disciplined, dedicated, passionate and inspired professionals executing the mission with compassion, care and precision A team oriented on and engaged with Commanders and Soldiers A transparent, flexible, innovative and agile command - focused on improving and transforming Focused on holistic "personnel readiness" to enable the Army to Prevent, Shape, and Win Committed to strengthening the All-Volunteer Army

Second office of the day, I was here for three hours, sitting in the "lobby" area that wasn't quiet…read morebut I didn't need quiet today. Some comings and goings of a yoga class and another meeting which was fine. Inside the library, it's quiet and ideal for study. Not so much for making Zoom calls, so it was good to be out here where there are power outlets and still in reach of the wifi. You do not need to be a resident of Hardin County to use the library or connect to the wifi. You only need to be a resident if you're borrowing materials. [Review 20204 overall - 237 in Kentucky - 1181 of 2023.]

I would like to thank Jeremiah for going above and beyond for me making sure I got my documents…read moresubmitted correctly, in a timely fashion, and proper etiquette from start to finish!

This marker is on the public square of the Hardin County Courthouse. It points out that a famous…read moreperson was once stationed here. The marker reads, "Cavalry and infantry battalions under Gen. George Custer assigned here, 1871 to 1873, to suppress Ku Klux Klan and carpetbaggers, to break up illicit distilleries. Those gangs becoming inactive, he was sent to Chicago to maintain order after big fire. Returning, he led an active social life. In 1873 ordered to Dakota, ending in "Custer's Last Stand, June, 1876." It is marker number 606 and it was erected April 16, 1964. [Review 2046 of 2024 - 280 in Kentucky - 23066 overall]

The Nancy Lincoln Inn and cabins were built in 1928 from chestnut and red heart pine logs in the…read moreAmerican Craftsman style. The four adjacent one room cabins mimicked the log cabin that the Lincoln family might have owned. The inn and cabins were built to serve the many visitors who drove to the Lincoln Birthplace Memorial. Although it was privately owned and operated by Jim Howell and his descendants, the inn is located on National Park property. In the 1930s, the park service planted red cedar trees to block the view as it deemed the inn an "unacceptable adjacent commercialization." Today, it is recognized as a historic property.

On our way up from Knoxville TN to Louisville KY, we made sure to swing by here to see Abraham…read moreLincoln's birthplace! It was thunder storming and lightning abound when we arrived but cleared up during our stroll through the memorial and the visitor center. There is a longer path to the side of the visitor center where it's all covered by trees so we didn't get rained on. Inside the memorial is the replica of the log cabin where he was born. That closes at 4:30pm, whereas the visitor center closes at 5:00pm. I made sure to stop at the sinking springs next to the memorial for the watering hole where Abe took his first drink of water. It felt very cold in that area compared to the humid weather surrounding it. Very cool. So glad we made a stop here on our roadtrip!

Honestly? Abe deserves better, but it just doesn't seem like there's enough material to work with…read morehere, which may not necessarily be anyone's fault. My top-tier chum who literally went to the school of hospitality and I came by here last Thursday in the late morning at my request. I love presidential shizzle - one of my earliest memories is getting a book of the presidents and learning all of them in order, and instead of going to Disney World (don't get me started), my parents took me to a number of presidential homesteads and birthplaces when I was in elementary school, mostly the heavy hitters in VA and the Adams one in Braintree, MA. And I've legitimately celebrated President's Day by dragging some of my chums to Grant's Tomb at 9AM to listen to a reenactment of the 1873 State of the Union. So I came into this with some nerdy, executive branch street cred. Part of it was definitely the mediocre rainy weather, but I just wasn't that impressed. I want to emphasize that there might not have been anything the National Park Service could have done once they got involved, because the biggest issue here is that the actual birthplace doesn't really exist anymore. I'm sure they got the land/property lines correct, but the log cabin that we all naturally associate with Abe? Gone, so you have to settle for a recreation, and that recreated cabin isn't given its own space outside - it's housed in the Memorial Building, which makes that experience more claustrophobic than it should be, since the cabin takes up about 70% of the room. There may be excellent reasons why it had to remain indoors, but I found that decision pretty curious. And bottom line - it's hard to have a national park based on a birthplace that's largely abstract and not something you can see with your own eyes. The Visitors Center was relatively small but pleasant. I haven't stopped to think about it until now, but I'm guessing that the vast majority of Lincoln exhibits are at his home in Springfield, IL, which I know DOES physically exist. Again, they just didn't have as much to play around with here so they're relying more on fancy/tasteful Lincoln quotes on their walls versus, say, a glass case featuring his top hat. When a sizeable chunk of your Visitors Center is taken up by a gift shop and little movie theater showing a 15-minute video about Lincoln, you're pretty much broadcasting the fact that you don't have a lot of standalone items to display, which is a shame. The biggest selling point is the Memorial Building, notwithstanding the replica cabin situation inside. It's built up on a hill with 56 steps for each year of Abe's life, and bares a pretty strong resemblance to the more notable Presidential memorials in DC. I thought it was cool that several Presidents have stopped by, now knowing that this is a bit in the middle of nowhere, but it's also just an hour outside Lexington so it was also disappointing to learn that no Presidents have visited since Eisenhower. They can't fit in a 15-minute photo op over the course of four to eight years? Come on. It's Abe. The NPS rangers (right word?) were very nice. I'd be curious what the pecking order of historic sites is for the NPS but I have to think this isn't at the very tippy top. Regardless, lots of smiles and at least one of them went out of their way to ask us if we had any questions and to (unprompted) pull out a map to orient us before we left the Visitors Center to explore the grounds a bit. If you're in the area, sure, pay your respects to the beginning of Honest Abe's story. But if you have more time/bandwidth, I think the play is to jump ahead in the timeline and get yourself up to Illinois.