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Sitting on a hillside overlooking the Kentucky River and downtown Frankfort, the Old State Arsenal has been a prominent Frankfort landmark since 1850. For well over a century, this gothic revival style brick castle actively supported the Kentucky Militia, the Kentucky State Guard, the Kentucky National Guard, the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs, and other state agencies. Long a storehouse for weapons, uniforms, and other supplies, the Arsenal once actually came under hostile gunfire. For the last half century, it has housed the Kentucky Military History Museum, a joint project of the Department of Military Affairs and the Kentucky Historical Society. The venerable structure has played an important role in Kentucky's military history, and it preserves many important reminders of that rich military heritage.Nicky Hughes went to work for the Kentucky Historical Society in 1973. He was very active in the establishment of the Kentucky Military History Museum, which opened in 1974. He served as curator of that museum until 1986 and remained with KHS until 1997, acting as Museums Division Manager and then as curator of the Old State Capitol. He finished his time with Kentucky state government in the Finance and Administration Cabinet’s Office of Historic Properties.
In 2000, Hughes joined the City of Frankfort’s Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Sites. He was responsible for the establishment of Leslie Morris Park on Fort Hill as a functional historic site and the formation of the Capital City Museum. Retiring from full-time work for the City of Frankfort in 2012, he later served as Director of the Shelby County Historical Society and is now Innkeeper at the Sandford Duncan Inn, a historic site in Simpson County. A co-founder of Frankfort Heritage Press, Hughes co-authored three major pictoral histories of Frankfort and a history of the Frankfort Cemetery.
Please register at https://www.pspl.org/event/fhls-hughes. For more information, contact Diane Dehoney at (502) 352-2665 x100 or [email protected].
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319 Wapping St, Frankfort, KY, United States, Kentucky 40601
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