Bowling Green & Warren County - History

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The Ghostly Legends of Vinegar Hill, Landmark Report (2005)
Before the establishment of Western Kentucky University on its hilltop campus, the area was known...
 

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A 1908 Interview With the Author of "Aunt Jane of Kentucky", Landmark Report (2004)
Bowling Green native Lida Calvert Obenchain wrote popular fiction and campaigned for woman suffrage. Interviewed...
 

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The Woman's Library of Bowling Green, Landmark Report (2001)
Before Bowling Green secured a public library, two women's clubs joined in 1898 to create...
 

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The Bowling Green Refining Company: Makers of "Kentucky Maid" Gasoline, Landmark Report (1998)
In 1931, Depression-struck oil producers in Warren, Simpson and Allen Counties created the Bowling Green...
 

Western Kentucky University - History

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A Calendar of WKU History (2009)
Some tidbits of WKU history for each day of the month.
 

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"Our Chief Rival and Greatest Friend": The Western-Murray Athletic Rivalry (2009)
Since their first football game in 1931 and their first men's basketball game in 1932,...
 

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The Dish on Dining at WKU (2009)
From a single main dining room in Potter Hall, WKU’s campus food service has expanded...
 

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The Best-Laid Plans: Building on the Hill, University Archives WKU History (2007)
Since Western purchased its present campus in 1909, building on the Hill has reflected the...
 

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The Dogs of Western, University Archives WKU History (2007)
Throughout Western's history, dogs belonging to faculty and staff, as well as strays who simply...
 

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The Mammoth Cave Party, Echo (2007)
In the early twentieth century, groups of students from the Western Kentucky State Normal School...
 

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Speak Up: It's Leap Year!, University Archives WKU History (2007)
The legend that on leap year day (February 29) a man was obligated to accept...
 

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Measuring Up: Women's Intercollegiate Sports Return to Western, University Archives WKU History (2007)
Since 1912, Western had fielded women's athletic teams, but after 1930 they were restricted to...
 

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"We Are Not Aliens": Women's Hours at Western, University Archives WKU History (2007)
Beginning in the 1960s and up until the enactment of Title IX, women students living...
 

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A Short History of Parking at Western, University Archives WKU History (2007)
Its earliest landscape architect envisioned the Hill as a pedestrian’s haven, but the automobile age...
 

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Western and the Pleasant J. Potter College: A Shared Heritage, University Archives WKU History (2007)
Opened in 1889, the Pleasant J. Potter College for Young Ladies was the first occupant...
 

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Wings Over Western: WKU and Aviation, University Archives WKU History (2007)
More than one hundred years after Kitty Hawk, aviation has become a part of the...
 

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Ogden College for Young Men, University Archives WKU History (2007)
Ogden College, an endowed private school for young men, opened in Bowling Green in 1877....
 

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Western's Heritage of Penmanship, University Archives WKU History (2007)
Until relatively recently, instruction in penmanship was an important part of the curriculum in schools...
 

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Veterans' Village, University Archives WKU History (2007)
After World War II, Western Kentucky State College (now Western Kentucky University) faced a severe...
 

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"We've Just Got to Get Together": African American Students Unite in the 1970s, Echo (2007)
In the early 1970s, African American students at Western Kentucky University took the first steps...
 

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A Master Recruiter, Echo (2006)
Western Kentucky University’s student recruitment strategies were enthusiastically devised by its first president, Henry Hardin...
 

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Henry Hardin Cherry, Suffragist, Echo (2006)
In the first decade of the twentieth century, Western Kentucky University’s first president, Henry Hardin...
 

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The Ghostly Legends of Vinegar Hill, Landmark Report (2005)
Before the establishment of Western Kentucky University on its hilltop campus, the area was known...
 

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G. G. Craig, Western's Master Penman, Landmark Report (2002)
Gavin G. Craig (1896-1976) joined the faculty of the Western Kentucky State Normal School and...