Thank You For Visiting March 4, 1780, Captain Abraham Lincoln was given a land grant for his service in the Revolutionary War.  The land was… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting March 3, 1817, the first commercial steamboat route from Louisville to New Orleans was opened.  The Washington set records for unprecedentedly… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting March 2, 1863, the Kentucky Legislatures adopted a resolution that condemned their native son’s Emancipation Proclamation. Localtonians wishes a Happy Birthday… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting March 1, 1782, a party of 25 Wyandot surprised Strode’s Station, located between Bryan Station and Fort Boonesborough.  The Natives held… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting February 28, 1807, Frankfort native Thomas Todd was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Thomas Jefferson. February 28, 1835,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting February 27, 1847, the General Assembly passed an act providing for the construction and protection of Morse’s Magnetic Telegraph, in Kentucky on any… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting Localtonians wishes a Happy Anniversary to Cassius Marcellus Clay and Mary Jane Warfield, who wed in 1833.  They had seven children. … Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting Localtonians wishes a Happy Birthday to Danville native John Fetterman born in 1920.  John won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting February 24, 1838, Kentucky Congressman William Graves killed Congressman Jonathan Cilley of Maine in a duel outside Washington D.C.  It started… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting February 23, 1836, Logan County native James “Jim” Bowie hurried to gather provisions and herd cattle into the Alamo compound while… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY