Old Eddyville Historic District

Coordinates: 37°02′52″N 88°04′34″W / 37.04778°N 88.07611°W

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Old Eddyville Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


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Location	Off KY 730, Eddyville, Kentucky
Coordinates	37°02′52″N 88°04′34″W / 37.04778°N 88.07611°W / 37.04778; -88.07611
Area	11 acres (4.5 ha)
Built by	McDonald Bros.
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	81000285^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 30, 1981

The Old Eddyville Historic District, located off KY 730 in Eddyville, Kentucky, is an 11 acres (4.5 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. It included 13 contributing buildings.^[1]

It includes the surviving portion of the original town of Eddyville, "one of western Kentucky's earliest and most important settlements", after the majority of the town was flooded by the 1966 damming (flooding) of the Cumberland River at Barkley Dam. It includes the Kentucky State Penitentiary and nine historic buildings at its base.^[2]

References

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Charlotte Schneider; Calvin P. Jones (March 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Eddyville Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved November 22, 2017. With 20 photos, historic and from 1980.

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