Thank You For Visiting June 23, 1792, Shelby County was created from Jefferson County.  Shelby was named in honor of Isaac Shelby, first and fifth… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting June 22, 1777, John Barney Stagger was murdered by Native Americans above Fort Harrod’s big spring about a half a mile… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting June 21, 1781, Daniel Boone, represented the new Fayette County in Virginia’s General Assemble and presented a petition to the Virginia’s… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting June 20, 1778, Daniel Boone arrived back at Fort Boonesborough after being held captive for approximately five months by the Shawnee. … Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting June 19, 1865, Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and enforced the Emancipation… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting June 18, 1792, the Kentucky legislature elected their first two senators, John Brown and John Edwards, to the U.S. Senate. June… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting In June 1778, a party of Native Americans came to North Elkhorn Creek, killed a man and took an African American… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting June 16, 1774, Fort Harrod, Kentucky’s first white settlement, became established.  James Harrod led 30-37 men down the Ohio River, then… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting June 15, 1778, the Shawnee returned from an unsuccessful raid against Donelly’s Fort on the Greenbrier River in today’s WVA.  Smarting… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Thank You For Visiting Localtonians wishes a Happy Birthday to Colonel Richard Callaway, born in 1717.   “Probably no single man accomplished more than Callaway in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY