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A Bowling Green neighborhood on the northwest side of the city has an interesting century-old history. The spot’s story is fueled by turn of the 20th century oil tycoons, post-WWII booms, and a growing university with unlimited opportunities. The Forest Park neighborhood of Bowling Green runs along Old Morgantown Road, and is made up of the many small neighborhoods stretching from the western side of the university’s campus toward Glen Lily road. According to the American Oil & Gas Historical Society, more than 50 Kentucky counties were showing signs of oil field discoveries and refining petroleum by the late 1910s and early 1920s. Warren County and its neighbors were part of this boom.

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