The Kentucky Historic Preservation Review Board has approved 15 sites for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, including Murray's W.G. Swann Tobacco Co. building and Christian County's C.A. Baldwin Farmstead.
The Swann building, located at 111 Poplar Street, was built in the early 1920s. According to a news release from the Kentucky Heritage Council, the building is one of the few reminders of downtown Murray's once-thriving tobacco industry, with as many as 13 facilities once located on the east side of town.
The C.A. Baldwin Farmstead, located on Masonville-Beverly Road in Hopkinsville, was built in 1937 and was nominated in the historic context of New Deal rural development programs in Christian County.
The sites will now have to be approved at the federal level. That decision will come in the next 60-90 days.
For the full list of state-approved sites, click here.
