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  Groundwater Resources of Bullitt County, Kentucky
The western part of the county is in the area of rugged topography of the Knobs and dissected upland behind Muldraugh Hill (Highland Rim escarpment).
Muldraugh Hill, an east-facing cuesta, and the isolated round hills or knobs carved from this upland are the most conspicuous topographic features of Bullitt County and contain both the highest elevations and the sites of greatest local relief.
The hills and ridges at the eastern edge of Muldraugh Hill may attain elevations in excess of 900 feet.
www.uky.edu /KGS/water/library/gwatlas/Bullitt/Topography.htm   (453 words)

  
 City of Muldraugh (Local Officials Directory)
Muldraugh was named after Muldraugh Hill, a dominant ridge just east of the city which stretches from West Point in Hardin County, on the Ohio River; 75 miles southeasterly through Nelson and LaRue Counties to Calvalry in Marion County.
The Muldraugh Post Office was established in 1874, and Muldraugh was incorporated in 1952.
Muldraugh began as a small settlement between Louisville and Nashville; it grew in size after the Fort Knox Military Reservation was established in 1918.
www.ltadd.org /lod/muldraugh.shtml   (77 words)

  
 Muldraugh Hill Baptist Church
The dedication of Muldraugh Hill Baptist Church was announced in the Lebanon Weekly Standard on October 13, 1874 by W. Ramsey.
Muldraugh's Hill Church is the outgrowth of the efforts of the Home Mission Board, of Russell's Creek Association, Bro.
Muldraugh Hill Baptist Church met on August 31, 1947 for the purpose of calling a pastor.
www.muldraughhill.org /ChurchHistoryTheBeginning.html   (11472 words)

  
 Communities in Meade County, Kentucky
Muldraugh is a fifth class city with a mayor and city council.
It is believed to have received its name from the first known settler, a hunter named Muldrew, combined with the necessity of using mules to haul or "draw" wagons and suppplies up the steep hill.
The Muldraugh Post Office was established in 1874, and the current office was dedicated in 1990.
www.visitmeadecounty.org /communities.shtml   (1162 words)

  
 Lebanon Enterprise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nestled among the blades of green grass and brittle red, orange and yellow leaves on Muldraugh Hill, which sits on the Marion County/Taylor County line, are nine wooden crosses.
Last week's accident on Muldraugh Hill is the fourth deadly accident that has occurred on that stretch of roadway within the past 10 years.
Matthew Colvin, 16, of Finley and Jeremy N. Clark, 19, Brent Murphy, 26, Kevin "Ace" Kearney, 25, and Steven Ray Barnett, 21, all of Campbellsville died in that crash.
www.lebanonenterprise.com /articles/2005/11/15/news/news01.txt   (619 words)

  
 Muldraugh Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muldraugh Hill is an escarpment in central Kentucky separating the Bluegrass on the north and north-east from the Pennyrile on the south and south-west.
In parts of its eastern stretches, Muldraugh Hill is little more than a slight hill, but in some of the western areas, it is represented by extensive areas of knobs.
The Jefferson Memorial Forest in Louisville, Kentucky and Bernheim Forest in Bullitt and Nelson Counties are both located within the knobs of Muldraugh Hill, as is part of Fort Knox.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muldraugh_Hill   (190 words)

  
 Muldraugh Kentucky Real Estate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Muldraugh is on the Ohio River across from Corydon, IN.
Muldraugh is primarily an agricultural county, and about one-third of Brandenburg is still zoned agricultural.
Participatory sports are offered at parks ranging from 3000 to 3 acres, and a scenic driving tour allows you to view the variety of trees in their colorful spring and fall foliage, or perhaps during the fullness of summer or stark browns of winter.
www1.relocate-america.com /states/KY/cities/muldraugh.htm   (422 words)

  
 Muldraugh, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muldraugh is a small town in Kentucky, located on Dixie Highway, approximately halfway between Louisville and Elizabethtown.
Muldraugh is located just north of Muldraugh Hill.
Muldraugh has the distintion as being the only one-sided town in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muldraugh,_Kentucky   (485 words)

  
 THIS WEEK IN THE CIVIL WAR September 14, 1862
After the firing ceased in front, we discovered the enemy, who was concealed behind a stone fence on the right of the pike, in front of the Seventh Wisconsin, annoying them by a deadly fire behind their breastworks.
D.H. Hill's rugged resistance is aided by the ineptitude and slowness of the Union general commanding on the field, Ambrose Burnside.
After overseeing the surrender at Harper's Ferry, Hill has pushed his men on a killing seventeen mile march, in less than eight hours, and crashes into the left flank of the advancing Federals.
www.civilweek.com /1862/sep1462.htm   (6683 words)

  
 Saunders Springs (Radcliff, Kentucky)
A handicapped-accessible picnic area is located at the top of the hill and many trees are marked for identification along the trails.
There was a dwelling for the operator at the plant and a cable railway that carried the operator and chemicals up and down the steep hill.
The garage where the operator parked his car still remains at the top of the hill, and the small residence, operations building, and storage tank still remain at the bottom of the hill.
www.radclifftourism.org /saunderssprings.shtml   (704 words)

  
 Groundwater Resources of Larue County, Kentucky
The most striking topography in the county is the Muldraugh escarpment which rises 300 to 350 feet above the valley flats.
Elevations in the northeast at the highest points on Muldraugh Hill (near Kentucky Lincoln Trail and Cecil Ridge) are 1020 feet.
The plateau surface declines to the southwest to approximately 750 feet at the western county boundary.
www.uky.edu /KGS/water/library/gwatlas/Larue/Topography.htm   (307 words)

  
 Central Kentucky News-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nestled among the blades of green grass and brittle red, orange and yellow leaves on Muldraugh Hill, which sits on the Marion/Taylor county line, are nine wooden crosses.
The Nov. 1 crash on Muldraugh Hill is the fourth deadly collision that has occurred on that stretch of roadway within the past 10 years.
Marion County EMS emergency medical technician Doug Shepperson, who responded to the Nov. 1 double fatality, said the curve at the bottom of the hill is deceiving and people simply don't pay enough attention when they are driving.
www.cknj.com /articles/2005/11/16/news/02curse.txt   (584 words)

  
 John Hunt Morgan in Kentucky
The main objective was to burn two huge L and N railroad trestles located on Muldraugh Hill just north of the town.
Before he moved to Muldraugh Hill, General Morgan wanted to remove any Union force in the area that may threaten his plans.
Morgan’s target was one of the railroad’s most vulnerable points, the trestle at Muldraugh Hill, five miles northeast Elizabethtown.
www.trailsrus.com /morgan/etown.html   (2105 words)

  
 Welcome to Hodgenville.net--Hodgenville, LaRue County, Kentucky--Birthplcae of Abraham Lincoln
LaRue County comprises 263 square miles of gently rolling hills and forests in the heartland of Kentucky.
The Pennyroyal is a karst region, the topography of which is produced by the dissolution of soluble limestone by water and characterized by underground streams and caves, sinkholes (dolines), small ponds, long valleys, rolling hills, and occasional steep ridges and stone escarpments.
Muldraugh's Hill, a large limestone escarpment, marks the eastern boundary of the Pennyroyal, the karst region, and LaRue County.
www.hodgenville.net   (1068 words)

  
 Civil War Incidents in and around Meade County, Kentucky
But even though Sherman was uneasy, he had to settle for between 4000 and 5000 men to train on Muldraugh Hill, for that was all Anderson could raise from his contacts in Indiana and Illinois.
According to Lewis, upon arriving at Muldraugh Hill, Sherman set out to bring order to the chaos of this mass of poorly trained troops, a group colorfully described as "motley crew" by a local historian.
General Sherman’s work on Muldraugh Hill came to a sudden halt when his commander General Anderson, suffering from what Anderson described as "mental torture," asked to be relieved of his duties, an act that thrust Sherman in command, a position the red-headed leader accepted with much reluctance.
www.stithvalley.com /svalley/civilwar/civilwar.htm   (10093 words)

  
 John Hunt Morgan - Brandenburg
The long march from Bardstown and the climb up Muldraugh Hill is exhausting and the men stay a few hours in Garnettsville, bathing and washing their clothes in the cool waters of Otter Creek.
Captains Meriweather, Taylor and their men are encamped on farmers' fields in Brandenburg, and Captain Thomas Hines rejoins the group here, after a scouting raid around Seymour, Indiana, where he encountered heavy opposition; his men captured, he escaped alone, swimming across the Ohio to elude the Corydon Home Guard.
Loading is temporarily halted by the appearance of the Union gunboat, Springfield, and the firing of three cannonballs; one into the Meade Hotel, one into the dock killing two horses and the third short of the Alice Dean in midstream.
www.10000trails.com /morgan/brandenburg.html   (1387 words)

  
 The Civil War.Org, John Huber At Perryville
The order came to Rousseau to occupy Muldraugh Hill (which today forms a portion of the Marion-Taylor County Line), because armed band of Confederates had been operating as far north as the Hill and Nolin’s Creek.
They had beaten the Union forces on Peter’s Hill, pushed back the units at her bottom right of the hill, and now were in control of the cornfield.
As the Confederates advance up the hill, John’s battery fired round after round at the advancing troops, till artillery could no longer lower their guns to confront the Confederates.
www.the-civil-war.org   (3169 words)

  
 Kula's Louisville Area Outdoor Site
This is one of my favorite courses to play not only because it is a good course but because there is a lot to do in Otter Creek Park from canoeing to camping to mountainbiking to hiking, Otter Creek has it all.
There is also a hole in the back nine in which the disc-catcher is on top of a hill and the backside of the hill is twenty to thirty feet tall and so steep someone put a ladder there to get up it!
Keep going until you come to the city of Muldraugh and take a left at the light that you would take a right at to get to Otter Creek.
homepages.ius.edu /MWILMES/discgolf.htm   (1129 words)

  
 MEMOIRS OF GENERAL SHERMAN, Vol. I., Part 2
The other regiments descended the hill in line of battle, under a severe cannonade; and, the ground affording comparative shelter from the enemy's artillery, they changed direction, by the right flank, and followed the road before mentioned.
Also, on Muldraugh's Hill beyond, was a strong position, which had in former years been used as the site for the State "Camp of Instruction," and we all supposed that General Buckner, who was familiar with the ground, was aiming for a position there, from which to operate on Louisville.
As fast as fresh troops reached Louisville, they were sent out to me at Muldraugh's Hill, where I was endeavoring to put them into shape for service, and by the 1st of October I had the equivalent of a division of two brigades preparing to move forward toward Green River.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/4/3/6/4361/4361-h/p2.htm   (17809 words)

  
 Civil War Indiana - Regimental Histories - 6th-99th Infantry
Spring Hill, Mimm's Mills, Tobasofkee Creek, Montpelier Springs and Rocky Creek Bridge, near Macon, April 20.
Battles of Oak Grove ("The Orchards") June 25; White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30; Jordan's Ford June 30; Malvern Hill July 1 and July 5.
Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25, 1864.
civilwarindiana.com /reg_history_inf0.html   (13922 words)

  
 Cycle Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
: There is one sharp hill on the 35/65-mile routes (on Hansberry Rd. east of Memphis), otherwise, the routes is mostly flat to rolling.
Most of the hills are short rollers — dipping down to creek bottoms and climbing back up.
The Son of TACKY ride can be started from any of the many motels at Exit 2 on I-65 south of Franklin.
www.cycleky.info   (2588 words)

  
 Courier-Journal.com: Places in Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lebanon Junction was a refueling point and the last stop before northbound trains made the long haul over steep Muldraugh Hill.
Though once a booming railroad town, Lebanon Junction is now quiet except for the clatter of passing freight trains and the rumbling from Fort Knox's nearby artillery range.
During Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's Christmas raid, troops laid waste to the huge wood trestles on Muldraugh Hill and reached as far north as the Salt River Bridge in Shepherdsville.
www.courier-journal.com /reweb/community/placetime/bullitt-lebanonjunction.html   (1374 words)

  
 Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky, and 7 miles from Muldraugh's Hill, on the railroad to
Troops from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky are rapidly congregating here, and there is a strong prospect of an early brush.
Benson Ornsby, a lawyer of this city, was arrested, but released on taking the oath of allegiance.
www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/civil-war/1861/october/maysville-kentucky.htm   (872 words)

  
 Centre College Encyclopedia - Basil W. Duke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In October 1861 Duke enlisted in the Confederate army and was elected first lieutenant of Morgan's cavalry company.
As second in command, he was, Morgan recorded, "wise in counsel, gallant in the field," and always "the right man in the right place." Duke was twice wounded, first at Shiloh and later near Muldraugh's Hill in Kentucky in the Christmas Raid on December 29, 1862.
During the Great Raid, he was captured in Ohio and was held prisoner from July 19, 1863, to August 3, 1864.
www.centre.edu /web/library/ency/d/duke.html   (404 words)

  
 Muldraugh News
Local news for Muldraugh, KY continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
The U.S. Marshall Service is calling it the biggest roundup ever of gang members, sex offenders and others roaming the streets with warrants.
A two-vehicle accident Wednesday night west of Muldraugh, Ky., in Meade County killed one driver and left the second with serious injuries, according to Kentucky State Police.
www.topix.net /city/muldraugh-ky   (250 words)

  
 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
The next morning it crossed Rolling Fork, wading the river, and marched to Elizabethtown, and went into camp on Muldraugh's Hill.
The First Brigade, to which the 49th was attached, was at once formed in order of battle, and after some maneuvers and hard fighting, the 49th assaulted the enemy's right, posted on a high hill.
It scaled the heights in the face of a severe fire, drove the enemy from that position, and compelled him to fall back to another but equally strong position, about a mile to his rear.
my.ohio.voyager.net /~lstevens/49oh.html   (2453 words)

  
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Set on what was once the Weissinger Farm, the course covers 151-acres of rolling hills, while the club house sets atop the acreage as the second largest barn in the state.
There are plenty of hills to circumvent and a creek runs through the course, but doesn't come into play unless you overshoot a green.
Federal Hill was the inspiration for Stephen Foster's ballad, "My Old Kentucky Home." Today this mansion is as endearing to visitors as it was in 1852 when Foster was inspired to write the song.
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 History - Kentucky Artillery
Organized at Camp Joe Holt, Ky., from Louisville Legion July, 1861, as Stone's Battery, and mustered in at Camp Muldraugh's Hill, Ky., September 27, 1861.
SERVICE--Moved to Muldraugh's Hill, Ky., September 17, 1861.
At Camp Muldraugh's Hill and Nolin until February, 1862.
civilwararchive.com /Unreghst/unkyarty.htm   (1366 words)

  
 Burning of Bridges a Spectacular Success
     …’Twas the very reason for the bold march from Tennessee into Union-held Kentucky in the first place—two colossal railroad bridges just five miles away on Muldraugh Hill.
John Hunt Morgan’s mission to cut the telegraph lines and halt food and ammunition deliveries by burning railway bridges, while successful to date, had only hampered Union forces.
  But, torching the Muldraugh Hill bridges near Colesburg would devastate the bluecoat’s Civil War cause just as a vindictive winter loomed on the horizon.
www.hardin.k12.ky.us /Upton/cwBridges.htm   (839 words)

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