Today in Kentucky

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Christian County native Adlai Ewing Stevenson, born in 1835.  The 23rd Vice President, who served under President Cleveland from… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

October 22, 1807, Kentucky 1st Lady Mary Catherine Pope Greenup died in the old Kentucky governor’s mansion.  According to later occupants, her image appears in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On October 21, 1788, Lincoln County Court ordered a road between William Whitley’s Station to the Lincoln County Court House.  Mr. Whitley built the 1st… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

October 20, 1865, the federal government hung Champ Ferguson, a Civil War guerrilla from Spring Creek in Clinton County, for 53 counts of murder.  Sometimes… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On October 19, 1775, Mary Ingles and an old Dutch woman decided to escape from Big Bone and the Native Americans who captured them. Localtonians… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On October 18, 1770, British representatives insisted on negotiating a new treaty with Native Americans.  This new treaty would move the northeastern boundary of Cherokee… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

October 1775, William McConnell, Francis McConnell, David Perry, John McClelland, Robert Patterson, and others set out from Fort Pitt in Pennsylvania.  They packed supplies into… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Localtonians wish Bland W. Ballard, born in 1761, a happy birthday.  Bland distinguished himself as a soldier, spy, and statesman.  Born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Ballard… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On October 15, 1796, the Kentucky Gazette ran the 1st written record of the Wilderness Road.  It read, “The Wilderness Road from Cumberland Gap to… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

October 14, 1803, Meriwether Lewis arrived at Clarksville, across the Ohio River from present-day Louisville, to meet up with William Clark.  Clark’s African-American slave York… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY