TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets May 17, 1825, Marquis de Lafayette sat for Mercer County native Mathew Harris Jouett in his Short Street studio in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets May 17, 1825, Marquis de Lafayette sat for Mercer County native Mathew Harris Jouett in his Short Street studio in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets May 16, 1799, John Bradford, the Kentucky Gazette proprietor, announced that he would take payment for subscriptions: “corn, wheat, country… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On May 15, 1780, 672 inhabitants presented the Continental Congress a signed memorial of the “Counties of Kaintuckey and Illinois”… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On May 14, 1857, a Louisville jury, backed by the judge, found four black men innocent of murder. A mob… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Captain Abraham Lincoln, President Lincoln’s grandfather, born in 1774. On May 13, 1871, to… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets May 12, 1886, Cynthiana native Caleb Walton West began his 2nd term as governor of the Utah Territory. May 12,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets May 11, 1785, Lexington trustees held their 1st meeting of the year and issued deeds for “Inn Lots” to Evan… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets May 10, 1783, Haggin’s Race Path, one of the 1st recorded horseraces in Kentucky. Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets May 9, 1798, the Lexington census as reported by the town trustees consisted of males above 12: 462, females: 307,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY
Kentucky Trivia ● Kentucky Tweets On May 8, 1775, the Transylvania Land Company, owned by Colonel Richard Henderson, named their new colony Transylvania and proclaimed… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY