On Sept. 11, 2001, people across the United States and the world watched in horror as planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

With little information about the attacks, all local governments and law enforcement could do was to be on high alert and pray. The Park City Daily News reported that “Bowling Green and Warren County governments today planned a prayer service for noon.”

—“Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.