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Harrodsburg is at the junction with State 35 (see Tour 5). ;
Right from Harrodsburg on the Dry Branch Pike to old MUD MEETING HoUsE,
3 m., a Dutch Reformed church, now the property of the Harrodsburg Historical
Society. This meeting house was built on land purchased in 18QO by a congrega-
tion organized in 1796 by the Reverend Peter LaBaugh, a missionary from New ·
Jersey. In the adjoining yard is the GRAVE or DoM1N1E THOMAS KYLE, the first
pastor. Although it is now weatherboarded and plastered, this well-preserved
building was constructed in an unusual manner. Heavy log sills were laid upon a
shone foundation. Into these sills squared timbers, placed at intervals of several
feet, were mortised and tenoned. Pieces of hand-split hickory were mort1sed hori-
zontally across the uprights, and between these puddled clay, mixed with straw,
was tamped into place. When the clay hardened the whole formed a solid wall,
The flooring, made of boards irregular in width, was tongued and grooved by
hand, fitted together, and laid upon joists.
The name of PERRYVILLE, 42.4 m. (913 alt., 349 pop.), is con- _
nected chiefly with the battle fought two miles from here in the War  
between the States. Main Street is flanked by weather-beaten frame
buildings, their stoops overhanging the sidewalks and their ells abutting
on the Chaplin River, which divides the town. Many of the buildings
served as hospitals or quarters during and after the Battle of Perry-
ville. ‘
Right from Perryville on the Mackville Pike, an improved road, to the PERRY-
VILLE BATTLEFIELD, 2 m. Here was fought the deciding engagement of the
Kentucky campaign of 1862. General Bragg entered Kentucky early in September
1862 and moved far into the interior of the State, attempting to rouse, by his
presence, the secessionists he felt to be predominant in the State.
General Buell, the Union commander, moved his army from Tennessee into Ken-
tucky to checkmate the moves of the Confederates, and, if possible, to drive them
out of the State.
After considerable maneuvering by both sides, the two armies met near Perry-
ville. The battle was really an accidental collision. Neither side could claim a -
clean-cut victory, but the Federals held the held, while Bragg retired to Harrods-
burg and presently retreated into East Tennessee. Subsequently the Confederates
abandoned all attempts to bring Kentucky into the Confederacy by military means.
The battleheld embraces 17 acres in which a Confederate monument was erected in
1902, and another for the Union dead in 1931.
US 68 leads past the old PERRYVILLE CEMETERY and continues in a
zigzag course.
The HALEWAY INN (L), 48.4 m., now a private residence, was built
prior to 1792. It was so named because of its position halfway between
Boonesboro and the Falls of the Ohio on the road connecting the set-
tlements. After the Battle of Perryville many of the wounded were .
cared for in it.
· In SPRINGFIELD, 58.9 m. (728 alt., 1,487 pop.), founded in 1793,
IS the WASHINGTON COUNTY COURTHOUSE, at Main and Cross Sts.,
that was ereoted in 1814. Among its records, which date from 1792,
are the marriage bond of Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham Lincoln,
the certificate of the marriage of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks;
and one. of the two known signatures of Lincoln’s grandmother, Ber-
sheba L1ncoln. A