Today in Kentucky

On March 28, 1775, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Southern District wrote Lord Dartmouth and stated the importance of stopping Henderson’s enterprise. March… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

March 27, 1751, Christopher Gist left the 1st written record of his travels through what is now Hazard.  His notes on this date acknowledged the… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

March 26, 1866, with the formal duel well into decline and strict Kentucky laws forbidding the practice, Joseph Desha (32) and Alexander Kimbrough (27) meet… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

March 25, 1775, while lying asleep in a Madison County camp, about 15 miles south of the future Boonesborough, Native Americans attacked before dawn.  Captain… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

On March 24, 1834, Kentucky received its 1st large lot of goods from Philadelphia.  The merchandise started in the Pennsylvania canals and then railroaded over… Read More »TODAY IN KENTUCKY HISTORY

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