Today in Kentucky

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Bourbon county native Kenner Garrard, born in 1827.  Kenner was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

September 20, 1863, Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga and died the following day.  His father, John LaRue Helm,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

September 19, 1816, Sinking Springs Farm sold for $87.74 on the Elizabethtown courthouse steps.  This sale marked the end of Thomas Lincoln’s dream of owning… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On September 18, 1812, Richard M. Johnson’s men reached Fort Wayne in time to save it and turned back an Indian ambush in the War… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Lucy (Virgin) Downs, thought to be the 1st white child born west of the Allegheny Mountains.  Lucy was born… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On September 16, 1874, feuding between the Little and Strong clans caused Governor Preston H. Leslie to send 60 state militia members to Jackson.  Fast… Read More »TODAY KENTUCKY HISTORY

September 15, 1875, Isaac Murphy won his 1st race.  The win came at the Lexington Crab Orchard track aboard B. F. Pettit’s chestnut filly Glentina.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner as he gazed at Old Glory with 15 stars and stripes flying over Fort… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On September 13, 1781, the Long Run massacre occurred at the intersection of Floyd’s Fork Creek and Long Run Creek along the Falls Trace, a… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to John Brown, a Kentucky founding father born in 1757.  His colleagues elected him as the Commonwealth’s 1st U.S. Senator… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY