Perryville News

One of the world's most revered leaders, Abraham Lincoln, was a Kentuckian. In fact, he said so.

The drab concrete block structure in Junction City looked like the last stop for a prisoner of war, but, in 1972 in Boyle County, it was the best hope for an unwanted dog.

As of 2 p.m. today, water customers who live in the Perryville area from 125 to 1316 Battlefield Road as well as Wood Street and Hayes May Road are no longer under a boil-water advisory, Danville Water Department officials said.

Alan Hoeweler was 16 the first time the sound of his boots was heard on the floorboards of the H.P. Bottom House in the middle of the Perryville Battlefield.

The Bottom House in Perryville is a sort of A ground zeroA of the Civil War. The recent acquisition of more than 140 acres by the Civil War Preservation Trust will preserve an important piece of PerryvilleA s Civil War history.