Today in Kentucky

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets April 28, 1816, the 1st commercial steamboat to ply the Kentucky River set sail from the mouth of Hickman Creek… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On April 27, 1805, Presley Neville O’Bannon became the 1st person to raise a U.S. flag over foreign soil during… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to John James Audubon, born in 1785. April 26, 1865, a posse tracked John Wilkes… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets April 25, 1793, the Kentucke Gazette, the 1st newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, reported that “Indians ambushed and… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On April 24, 1884, Kentucky established a line of stages from Maysville to Lexington, Frankfort, and Louisville; the trip was… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets April 23, 1775, Richard Henderson called for an election for members to the “House of Delegates of the Transylvania Colony.” … Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets April 22, 1750, Dr. Walker and his Ax Men built a bark canoe and crossed the Cumberland River, a few… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to La Grange native Jack Retherford Starkey, born in 1922.  Better known as Buddy Pepper,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Richard Henderson, born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1735.  Even though his Transylvania government… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets April 19, 1774, the area known as Lexington 1st appeared in a written record when Lord Dunmore, Virginia’s governor, signed… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY