Today in Kentucky

On September 16, 1874, feuding between the Little and Strong clans caused Governor Preston H. Leslie to send 60 state militia members to Jackson.  Fast… Read More »TODAY KENTUCKY HISTORY

September 15, 1875, Isaac Murphy won his 1st race.  The win came at the Lexington Crab Orchard track aboard B. F. Pettit’s chestnut filly Glentina.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner as he gazed at Old Glory with 15 stars and stripes flying over Fort… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On September 13, 1781, the Long Run massacre occurred at the intersection of Floyd’s Fork Creek and Long Run Creek along the Falls Trace, a… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to John Brown, a Kentucky founding father born in 1757.  His colleagues elected him as the Commonwealth’s 1st U.S. Senator… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

September 11, 1750, Christopher Gist, an agent for the Ohio River Company of Virginia, started from Old Town on the Potomac River and explored along… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to John Jordan Crittenden, born in 1787.  John represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate four different times in both classes. … Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

The Virginia Gazette of September 9, 1775, described an exhibition of Morgan’s Riflemen or Morgan’s Rifles, previously Morgan’s Sharpshooters.  “A man held between his knees… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On September 8, 1775, Frances Jane Greenleaf and her crew reached Fort Harrod.  Francis later manufactured the 1st salt in Kentucky at Drilling’s Lick, an… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Monday, September 7, 1778, the Great Siege of Fort Boonesborough began when the best war chiefs of the Shawnee, an estimated 444 Native Americans, 12… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY