Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets January 27, 1808, Estill County was created from Clark County and Madison County and was named in honor of James… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On January 26, 1810, the first scalped law passed in Kentucky, which enabled the Commonwealth to pay citizens for wolves’… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets January 25, 1715, Thomas Walker was born in Queen and King County, VA.  As a Loyal Land Company member, Walker… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets January 24, 1848, gold was discovered in California.  Kentucky’s high migration rate to California fell behind Ohio, Massachusetts, and New… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On January 23, 1813, Nathaniel Gray Smith Hart, a Lexington lawyer and businessman, died, along with many of his men… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets January 22, 1813, British and Native American forces attacked a pioneer militia retreating south from Detroit.  The “Battle of Frenchtown,”… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets January 21, 1819, the Kentucky General Assembly founded Centre College. Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Louisville native Roscoe Tarleton… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets January 20, 1815, Captain Matthew Harris Jouett of the Army’s Third Mounted Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers resigns.Jouett-Bush-Frazer Early Kentucky Artist… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets January 19, 1809, Henry Clay and Humphrey Marshall held their famous duel just across the Ohio River from Shippingport.  Marshall… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets January 18, 1810, Butler County was created from Logan County and Ohio County and was named in honor of Richard… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY