August 15-17, 1782, Captain Caldwell and his combined Shawnee and Wyandot forces attempted to surprise Bryant’s Station. The war party fired on the fort, burned the stable, and tried to stop the re-enforcement of men from Lexington. Next, they demanded the fort surrender, but the pioneers refused. The Warriors finally left after a 24-hour siege. Captain Caldwell then marched to the Battle of Lower Blue Licks. The Squire’s Sketches of Lexington by J. Winston Coleman, Jr.; pg: 17
August 15, 1832, Governor Metcalfe rode the 1st stretch of the Lexington and Ohio Railroad, 1.5 miles and everyone marveled that one horse could pull 40 passengers. By the following March, they completed six more miles towards Frankfort. Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass by John Dean Wright; pg: 51
August 15, 1851, locals claimed to have found a silver mine in Muhlenburg County.