Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563117894
Category : Lincoln County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Lincoln County, Kentucky
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563117894
Category : Lincoln County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Author: Roadside History
Author: Melba Porter HayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780916968298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky We have all spied them as we blast down I-75 scanning the roadside for anything of interest or rolled past one while trying to find an elusive gas station in an unfamiliar small town. Perhaps we have even stopped to read one outside the local courthouse. Since 1949, the Kentucky Historical Highway Marker program has erected more than 1,800 markers that highlight the rich diversity of the state's local and regional history as well as topics of statewide, and sometimes national, importance. They provide on-the-spot Kentucky history lessons, depicting subjects as diverse as a seven-year-old boy who served as a drummer in the Revolutionary War to a centuries-old sassafras tree. Roadside History is a key to the markers, enabling travelers to read Kentucky history without stopping to see each marker as they pass. There are two indexes arranged by subject and county.
American Ancestry: Embracing lineages from the whole of the United States. 1888[-1898. Ed. by Frank Munsell
Author: Frontier Retreat on the Upper Ohio, 1779-1781
Author: Louise Phelps KelloggPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806351918
Category : Ohio River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Covering the years 1769 to 1800, these 743 pages address each of the major political and governmental episodes, with their principal participants, in the formative period of the Volunteer State. To produce this achievement, the author worked assiduously in the archives of Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. as well as conversed with such founding fathers as James White, Charles McClung, and his maternal grandfather, John McKnitt Alexander, secretary of the Mecklenburg Convention of 1775. Although the researcher will discover genealogical sketches of Tennessee throughout the book. the focus of Ramsey's Annuals is narrative political history.
The Commercial and Financial Chronicle
Author: The Kentucky Encyclopedia
Author: John E. KleberPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813159016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.
The Claunch Files
Author: Laurel County, Kentucky: History Revealed Through Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of its Ancestors
Author: M. SecristPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1300208287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book aims to serve as a valuable resource for your genealogy research. Many biographical and genealogical sketches, as well as a history of Laurel County, Kentucky, has been collected and presented here. These sketches derive from a great variety sources, such as books, periodicals, vital records, war records, etc. Combined, these sketches reveal the history of Laurel County, Kentucky.
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