Manuscript Database - Subject: Bowling Green (Ky.) - History

Bowling Green (Ky.) - History

Barton Family Papers. 1913-1921. 1.33 cu. ft.

Correspondence dated Feb.-May 1917; Feb.-May 1918; and Feb., April-June 1919 recalls life while a student at Western Kentucky State Normal School. Letters note social activities like the May Festival. car rides. and picnics; and describe patriotic marches, liberty loan drives, and Red Cross work for World War I.

Bowling Green (Ky.) - History

Dowell, C. S. Autograph book. 1886-1889. 1 item.

Autographs of friends from Southern Normal School, in Bowling Green, Ky. Also curl of hair from Willie Dowell.

Bowling Green (Ky.) - History

Wells, Samuel T. Papers. 1861-1889. .33 cubic feet.

Letters written while Wells was serving as a Lt. Col. in the 50th Indiana Volunteer Infantry in Bowling Green. Letter of 12 March 1862 describes the town as a "sickly place" and the recalls the destruction for "40 miles back toward Louisville".

Bowling Green (Ky.) - History

Winn - Cook Family Papers. Papers. 1861-1875. 1 cu. ft.

In a letter of 18 Dec. 1861 Robert Winn writes that they "have captured Bowling Green with most of the rebel cannons un-spiked". The town was fortified but it takes men to defend a town.

Bowling Green (Ky.) - History

Bullitt Family Papers - Oxmoor Collection, 1683-2003. 164 cu.ft.

In letters dated August-September 1920 between Kenneth Mcintosh and William Marshall Bullitt they write about the excitement generated by the possibility of an oil field being in existence in Bowling Green, Ky.