TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On June 16, 1774, locals established Fort Harrod, Kentucky’s first white settlement. James Harrod led 30-37 men down the Ohio… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On June 16, 1774, locals established Fort Harrod, Kentucky’s first white settlement. James Harrod led 30-37 men down the Ohio… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 15, 1778, the Shawnee returned from an unsuccessful raid against Donelly’s Fort on the Greenbrier River in today’s WVA. … Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Colonel Richard Callaway, born in 1717. “Probably no single man accomplished more than Callaway… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 13, 1775, with the main fort nearly finished, Boone set out to Snody’s Station in Virginia to bring his… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Anniversary to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, who wed in 1806 in Washington County. Their ceremony… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 11, 1864, near Montgomery, Owen County, a severe skirmish between bushwhackers and Union forces occurred. Two Union men died,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Lexington native Caroline Louise Dudley better known as Mrs. Leslie Carter, born in 1857.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On June 9, 1819, the Louisville Kentucky Herald carried the following announcement: J.H. BUSH PORTRIAT PAINTER has taken the house… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Springfield native Charles Anderson Wickliffe, born in 1788. Charles was Kentucky’s 11th Lt. governor,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets June 7, 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker and his Loyal Land Company companions crossed the creek, once it lowered, and continued… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY