TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Thank You For Visiting Tuesday, October 5, 1852, Thomas White and Benjamin Johnson, both of Lexington dueled at 5:00 p.m. on the Scott/Fayette line near… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Thank You For Visiting Tuesday, October 5, 1852, Thomas White and Benjamin Johnson, both of Lexington dueled at 5:00 p.m. on the Scott/Fayette line near… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets When I start thinking in the batter’s box, that’s when I get into trouble. Dan Uggla Localtonians wish a Happy… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia On October 3, 1786, an entourage of fourteen families known as the McNitt Company paused to camp for the night in present-day Laurel… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On October 2, 1854, John LaRue Helm became Louisville and Nashville’s 2nd president between his two terms as Kentucky’s governor.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Thank You For Visiting October 1, 1777, Col. George Rogers Clark left Harrodsburg for the east, and reached the capital of Virginia on November 5th.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Thank You For Visiting On September 30, 1861, Kentucky legislators began calling for the resignation of Governor Beriah Magoffin several months into the Civil War. … Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Thank You For Visiting September 29, 1849, Caroline Whittmore, the harlot of Harrodsburg, entered the Shaker Community and kidnapped Brother James with a large horse… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Thank You For Visiting Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Scottsville native Emma Guy Cromwell, born in 1865 in Simpson County. Emma was a suffragist,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
A Little Kentucky Trivia September 27, 1808, the Kentucky Abolition Society held their 1st meeting. The society of predominantly Baptist churches opposed the existence of… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Thank You For Visiting September 26, 1820, Daniel Boone died in Missouri a few months short of his 86th birthday. His family buried him in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY