Today in Kentucky

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to the Louisville native and poet Madison Julius Cawein, born in 1865.  In 1913, a year before his death, Cawein… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

March 22, 1782, in the Battle of Little Mountain, seven of Captain James Estill’s axmen, out of 25, died in desperate hand-to-hand fighting with a… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

March 21, 1775, Virginia Governor Dunmore issued a strong proclamation against Richard Henderson and the Transylvania Company. On March 21, 1782, Captain Estill’s party regrouped… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Kentucky’s 10th leader, Governor Thomas Metcalfe, born in 1780.  At age 16, Metcalfe was apprenticed to his older half-brother,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

March 19, 1903, Deputy Sheriff James Wesley Williams, Marion County Sheriff’s Office, died in a gun battle with a suspicious man he attempted to question.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On March 18, 1813, Rebecca Boone passed over.  Her family laid her to rest in the Boone Family Cemetery overlooking Tuque Creek, on a farm… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

Localtonians wish a Happy Birthday to Silas Harlan, born in 1753 in West Virginia.  He journeyed to Kentucky with James Harrod in 1774 and served… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

March 16, 1836, the 1st railroad accident occurred on the Lexington & Ohio line, two miles north of Frankfort.  A train leaped over a barrier,… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

President Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. While not a Kentuckian, Jackson is memorialized with a federal highway—U.S. Highway 31E—running through the state.… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

March 14, 1804, Thomas Reed and John Carr, both Lexingtonians, met on the Field of Honor for an unknown reason.  Reed received a wound in… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY