TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 26, 1861, Cynthiana native Orville Hickman Browning became an Illinois U.S. Senator. Five years later he would become the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 26, 1861, Cynthiana native Orville Hickman Browning became an Illinois U.S. Senator. Five years later he would become the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia June 25, 1830, Ephraim McDowell, physician and surgeon who introduced pioneering techniques in abdominal surgery passed away in Danville. June 25, 1842, Lexingtonian… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 24, 1778, George Rogers Clark, 26, and 175 men “shot the falls” of the Ohio River in canoes during… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 23, 1792, the young Commonwealth created Shelby County from Jefferson County. Shelby was named in honor of Isaac Shelby,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 22, 1773, Capt. Thomas Bullitt and Hancock Taylor, both surveyors and others in one company, and James McAfee, George… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On June 21, 1761, four men left Alexandria for Kentucky. They fought through the trackless western Virginian woods, across the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 20, 1778, Daniel Boone arrived back at Fort Boonesborough after being held captive for approximately five months by the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 19, 1865, Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and then enforced… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 18, 1792, the Kentucky legislature elected their first two senators, John Brown and John Edwards, to the U.S. Senate.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Anniversary to Jefferson Davis (29) and Sarah Knox Taylor (21), who wed in 1835, in Louisville. … Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY