Courthouse Fountain
When Simon Bolivar Buckner was a boy, he often had to fetch water from the town spring - 170 feet below the top of the hill where he attended the log school. He resolved that he would one day run that water up the hill to spare the others the same hardship.
The Hart County News, May 1895, reports that Buckner, a civil engineer, was going to personally oversee and pay for a public fountain in the courthouse square.
A member of the Kentucky Military Board during the Civil War, George T. Wood's son - Thomas J. Wood would attain the rank of Union Major General in the Civil War. As a child, Confederate Brigadier General Simon Bolivar Buckner often spent the week here while he attended the local school (a few stops later on our tour).
During the war, Thomas Wood and his friend Buckner would be pitted against each other at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Had the Confederates left Munfordville in September 1862, the two would have met in battle on their old playground.
Next Stop -
Presbyterian Church Union Hospital
