The Workday on May 12, 2007, was a great success. For a full report click here or check out our activities page.
The Rolling Fork Historic Preservation Association endeavors to preserve, restore, and interpret the area comprising the battlefield of the Battle of New Haven. On December 30, 1862 three companies of the 9th Kentucky Cavalry of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry attacked across the Howell family farm in an effort to destroy the railroad bridge spanning the Rolling Fork River. The bridge was defended by Fort Allen and several companies of the 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
The landscape of the New Haven Battlefield has changed little since Union forces first occupied the site in October of 1862. It remains cultivated farmland crossed by a single railroad line. To the east, it is bounded by the Rolling Fork River - with the elevation of the property slowly rising as it travels west, culminating along a long ridgeline and knob. To the north, the property is delineated by Kentucky Highway 52, and to the south, by a small wood lined stream. The original roadbed for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, now part of the Kentucky Railroad Museum, travels the length of the property from west to east, crossing the Rolling Fork River to the east. The original house that served the Howell farm and witnessed the Battle is extant, sitting just above the base of the knob, facing east overlooking the farm fields.
