Hope to see a few posters at conference.?ÿ We'll be in Bowling Green, Kentucky this year; which is the location of the national Corvette museum.?ÿ One of the local PE/PLSs will be presenting about the project where his company helped get that sinkhole situation from some years back resolved.?ÿ Should be pretty interesting.
Check to see if anyone present knows how Bowling Green came to have that name.?ÿ I bet they don't know.
how Bowling Green came to have that name
Sorry, couldn't help myself:
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At the behest of a petition by the new residents, in December 1796 the General Assembly passed an act, effective in March 1797, to establish Warren County, named to honor Dr. Joseph Warren, a hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Robert Moore and his brother George donated a two-acre plot on which to build a log county courthouse and jail. (This site is now the location of Fountain Square Park.)
The following year, the Moores offered an additional donation of more than 30 acres for the creation of a town to surround the recently constructed public buildings. At the first county commissioners meeting in early 1798, the pioneers decided that the new town would be "called and known by the name of Bolin Green." This name was after the Bowling Green Square in New York City, where patriots had pulled down a statue of King George III and used the lead to make bullets during the American Revolution.
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Lots of history on the net; the best I could come up with was; lawn bowling was played here.
It was also the place where Peter Minuit paid a supposed $24 for Manhattan from the?ÿnative population, the Lenope.