Today in Kentucky

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