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Black plaque № 45751

Hopkinsville, KY, United States

Pioneer Graveyard 1812-1858. Within this enclosure are buried 185 named persons, and many more unknown, all early settlers of Christian County. The land for this cemetery was donated in 1812 by Bartholomew Wood, the first settler in Hopkinsville. He also donated land and timber for the first public

buildings, 1797. He died in 1827 and was buried here.

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