Today in Kentucky

May 22, 1825, The Marquis de Lafayette, the namesake of Fayette County, left the Commonwealth after a 12 day visit in the region.  Kentucky in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

May 21, 1860, Woodlawn Race Course Association, also known as Saratoga of the West, held their 1st day of racing in Louisville, a track of… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

May 20, 1777, in the early morning hours, while the women were milking cows outside the gates, 100 Native Americans and British troops attacked Logan’s… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

May 19, 1840, John Adair, Kentucky’s 8th governor (1820-24), died on his farm in Harrodsburg.  Kentucky historian Lowell H. Harrison opined that creating the Bank… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

May 18, 1808, Elijah Craig passed away in Georgetown.  A former Baptist preacher, he received jail time in Virginia for preaching without a license in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

May 17, 1825, Marquis de Lafayette sat for Mercer County native Mathew Harris Jouett in his Lexington Short Street studio.  The state legislature approved the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

May 16, 1799, John Bradford, the Kentucky Gazette proprietor, announced that he would take payment for subscriptions: “corn, wheat, country made linen, linsey, sugar, whiskey,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On May 15, 1780, 672 inhabitants presented the Continental Congress a signed memorial of the “Counties of Kaintuckey and Illinois” for each to be a… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On May 14, 1857, a Louisville jury, backed by the judge, found four black men innocent of murder.  A mob ensued immediately and dragged the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Captain Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln’s grandfather, born in 1774. On May 13, 1871, to calm down a city in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY