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The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green pays tribute to this classic American sports car. Across the street visit-
ors can also tour the GM Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant, the only place in the world that Corvettes are made.
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Bowling Green
George and Robert Moore, two brothers, donated land to found this town on a bend in the
Barren River in 1798. According to lore, it was named in honor of Bowling Green Square
in New York City. Today Bowling Green is a blend of the old and the new, from the el-
egant 1872 Italianate home known as River View at Hobson Grove, to the recently foun-
ded National Corvette Museum, a high-tech tribute to the quintessentially American sports
car,manufactured hereinBowling GreenbyGeneral Motors.Themuseum features classic
Corvettes spanning the years since 1953, when the first model rolled off the assembly line.
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