The Jim Pearce Camp has the honor to serve Trigg County Kentucky.
Here we will share many of the historical sites and items that the County has to offer.
The following address was delivered by Justice Bill Cunningham at the rededication of the Trigg County Confederate Monument on March 20, 2010.
| In 2018 we were successfully in raising the funds to have a Kentucky Historical Society Roadside Marker recast and remounted. The marker is number 881 in the KHS Database. Located to approximately 1/2 mile to the West of the 68/80 and Trace intersection on the South side of 68/80. It reads: Civil War Sniper In 1862 Jack Hinson swore revenge against Union Army when two sons were executed as bushwhackers. From ambush he picked off men in blue uniforms on gun boats and on land. With a price on his head, he continued his vendetta until his gun bore 36 notches at close of war. He guided General Nathan Bedford Forrest in his last campaign in area, Oct.-Nov., 1864. We rediedicated this marker May 12, 2018. Photos of the event are on our 'Photos and Video' page. Trigg Furnace Built here in 1871 by the Daniel Hillman Iron Co. was a brick-and-stone blast furnace producing pig iron from locally mined ore. It burned charcoal fuel, and used steam power to blow preheated air through the stack. Most iron made here was processed at the works of the Tennessee Rolling Mills, 3 miles NW. Operations ceased by 1878. See the other side. Iron Made in Kentucky A major producer since 1791, Ky. ranked 3rd in US in 1830s, 11th in 1965. Charcoal timber, native ore, limestone supplied material for numerous furnaces making pig iron, utensils, munitions in the Hanging Rock, Red River, Between Rivers, Rolling Fork, Green River Regions. Charcoal-furnace era ended in 1880s with depletion of ore and timber and use of modern methods. Iron fired here did go South at the outset of the War. |