The Land Before Fort Knox

Images of America: The Land Before Fort Knox illuminates the past while images bring to light people and places of yesterday.

Located south of the Ohio River and Louisville, Kentucky, the Fort Knox military installation is the location for the training of U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry forces. Known as the home of Mounted Warfare, Fort Knox is also the location of the U.S. Treasury Department Gold Vault that opened in February 1937. Fort Knox covers 178 square miles and spans parts of Hardin, Meade, and Bullitt Counties. The area was once home to Thomas Lincoln, father of the nation's martyred 16th president, as well as the burial place of Abraham Lincoln's grandmother, Bathsheba Lincoln. Images of America: The Land Before Fort Knox illuminates the past while images bring to light people and places of yesterday.

Author: Gary Kempf
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 08/06/2001
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.52w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780738516868

About the Author
Kempf, Gary: - Gary Kempf is an instructional systems specialist at Fort Knox. A member of Ancestral Trails Historical Society and the Hardin County Historical Society, Mr. Kempf has written numerous articles and one other book on the history of Fort Knox.