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Two hundred feet west John Boyle built log cabin, 1798, that is still part of home. He and three others, who later set up housekeeping in that cabin, were state legislators and represented the district in Congress 28 years.
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This building is the original First Post Office west of the Allegheny Mountains. General Thomas Barbee commissioned first Post Master, August 20, 1792. Logs moved from Walnut Street to Constitution Square. Dedicated to the State of Kentucky by the . . . — — Map (db m121725) HM
Constant Confederate Raids Forced the Union Army to Take Action
In the spring and summer of 1863 Confederate raids led by Col. Roy S. Cluke, Gen. John Pegram and Col. John S. Scott crossed and recrossed the Kentucky River. Their mission . . . — — Map (db m74678) HM
Thomas Lincoln proposed to Nancy Hanks in this house, originally located on Beech Creek about one mile from here. At the time, Nancy was living with her cousin, Francis Berry, and his family.
Lucy Shipley Hanks and her daughter, Nancy, . . . — — Map (db m46270) HM
The story of the Sleet family in central Kentucky began in Mercer County, Kentucky, at the beginning of the 19th century. An 1836 will of Reubin Sleet, a Mercer County slaveholder, made the first reference to Warner-the patriarch of the . . . — — Map (db m289373) HM
October 8, 1862 here 16,000 Confederates under General Braxton Bragg fought 22,000 Federals under General Don Carlos Buell. Bragg, facing superior forces, withdrew. Union casualties 4211; Confederate, 3396. — — Map (db m5193) HM
While Kentucky slaves were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, which only affected the enslaved community under Confederate control, Union military policy in Kentucky did provide opportunities for slaves to liberate . . . — — Map (db m291002) HM
Welcome to Spring Hill Cemetery. This map and the cemetery print-out on the shelf below have been placed here to help you locate grave sites of interest. Sections are marked with letters and numbers. Lot numbers refer to the number of rows in a . . . — — Map (db m153164) HM
Montverde Academy was founded by Hermon Palestine Carpenter in 1912 as the Montverde Industrial School for students of limited means. A native of Boyle County, Kentucky, Carpenter (1877-1958) came to Florida in 1912 and decided to found a school at . . . — — Map (db m93362) HM
Kentucky's first recorded hemp crop, 1775, was on Clark's Run Creek, near Danville. Grown by Archibald McNeill, who brought the first seed with him when he located here. Hemp production spread slowly throughout the area, but Boyle County later . . . — — Map (db m121560) HM
University of Louisville law degree; three time Congressman from Eighth District; first Comptroller of the Treasury; founding member of the Bank of Lexington; deputy clerk for Kentucky for the Internal Revenue Service. His grandfather, John Durham, . . . — — Map (db m283770) HM
To honor and commemorate the men who fought in the American Revolution and sleep in Boyle County Kentucky.
John Spears • Michael Harmon • Hugh Shiell •
John Pipes • John Gray • William Warren •
Samuel McDowell • Thomas . . . — — Map (db m121869) WM
Homesite and grave 1 mile west. B., Orange Co., Va., 1740. D., 1825. 40 years service to his country. Lt. at Fort Pitt, Dunmore's War, 1774. Captain, Botetourt County militia, 1776. Northwest Campaign of George Rogers Clark, 1778. Came to Ky., 1781. . . . — — Map (db m120112) HM
After the Civil War, two newly-freed slaves, Henry and Preston Sleet, laid the foundation for Sleettown. This became a thriving African-American community that prospered from 1865 to the early 1930s.
Although the official purchase of the . . . — — Map (db m289426) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
