Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On March 30, 1863, Union forces under General Quincy A. Gillmore defeated General John Pegram’s Confederate cavalry raid outside Somerset.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Anniversary Judge Todd and Lucy Washington, who wed in 1812 in the 1st White House wedding. … Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On March 28, 1775, Virginia’s governor issued a proclamation to arrest Richard Henderson and his Transylvania associates while emphasizing the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets March 27, 1751, Christopher Gist left the 1st written record of travels through what is now Hazard.  His notes on… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets March 26, 1866, with the formal duel well into decline and strict Kentucky laws forbidding the practice, Joseph Desha (32)… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets March 25, 1775, while lying asleep in a Madison County camp, about 15 miles south of the future Boonesborough, Native… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to our Governor William Owsley, born in 1782, the 16th governor.  Education made progress during… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to the Louisville native and poet Madison Julius Cawein, born in 1865.  In 1913, a… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets March 22, 1782, in the Battle of Little Mountain, seven of Captain James Estill’s axmen, out of 25, died in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets March 21, 1775, Virginia Governor Dunmore issued a strong proclamation against Richard Henderson and the Transylvania Company. March 21, 1782,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY