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A Brief History of Northern Kentucky

Author : Robert D. Webster
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813177898
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Northern Kentucky written by Robert D. Webster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years ago, the land that would become Northern Kentucky emerged above sea level when a large portion of the continental plate bulged upward. Today, the region rests on the crest of that uplift, known as the Cincinnati Arch. And just like the fascinating geology of this region, Northern Kentucky continues to grow and develop. From the arrival of the Native Americans, to the first European settlers in the late 1700s, to the building of Ark Encounter at Williamstown in 2016, Northern Kentucky's landscape and population have changed dramatically. This encompassing study delves into the region's unique past and considers its ever-evolving future. Provided is a wide-ranging overview of Northern Kentucky's rich history, including details about its early pioneers such as James Taylor Jr., Simon Kenton, and Daniel Boone, who knew the potential of the incredibly beautiful territory they had discovered at the mouth of the Licking River. The collection also chronicles significant historic moments, like the Battle of Blue Licks, the building of the Roebling Bridge, and tragedies such as the Ohio River Flood of 1937 and the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire of 1977. Famous Northern Kentuckians, such as singer and actress Rosemary Clooney, artist Frank Duveneck, and performer Kenny Price, are also featured. This well-rounded study also addresses the revitalization of the region—including the recent multi-billion-dollar riverside developments in Covington, Newport, and Bellevue—and how Northern Kentucky has evolved into one of the most desirable places in the country.

The History of Pioneer Lexington, 1779-1806

Author : Charles R. Staples
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081315961X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The History of Pioneer Lexington, 1779-1806 written by Charles R. Staples and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Kentucky pioneer life, Charles R. Staples creates a colorful record of Lexington's first twenty-seven years. He writes of the establishment of an urban center in the midst of the frontier expansion, and in the process documents Lexington's vanishing history. Staples begins with the settlement of the town, describing its early struggles and movement toward becoming the "capitol" of Fayette County. He also presents interesting pictures of the early pioneers and their livelihood: food, dress, houses, cooking utensils, "house raisings," religious meetings, horse races, and other types of entertainment. First published in 1939, this reprint provides those interested in the early history of Kentucky with a comprehensive look at Lexington's pioneer period. Staples recreates a time when downtown's busiest streets were still wilderness and a land rich with agricultural potential was developing commercial elements. Because he wrote during a period when much of pioneer Lexington remained, he provides a wealth of primary information that could not be assembled again.

Early Fleming County Kentucky Pioneers

Author : Wade Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948986151
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Early Fleming County Kentucky Pioneers written by Wade Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, this invaluable resource for Fleming County history has been out-of-print for decades. A lifelong resident of Fleming County, Wade Cooper put into print the history of Fleming County, Kentucky, according to records he had in his hands for a number of years and to honor the brave pioneers of this section of Kentucky, both men and women, who came to make their homes and rear their families when this was a vast wilderness. Out of this wilderness has been carved some of the best farms in Kentucky. Their descendants are honorable men in the various business fields." Table of contents: Fleming County and The Man It Was Named For; Michael Cassidy, The Amazing Irishman; The Forming of Fleming County; Salathial Fitch; Old Fleming County Records; Life of John Cochran; Life of Joseph Porter; The Botts of Fleming County; The Overleys of Fleming County; William Quaintance of Fleming County; Prominent Citizens of Fleming County; Taken From "The Flag" - 1847; Judge R. H. Stanton; M. M. Teager, Attorney of Flemingsburg; The Ryans from Ireland to Flemingsburg; Flemingsburg and Fleming County, 1828 - 1833; E. M. Money of Fleming County; William H. Fischer, Grocer, Wholesale and Retail; Dan T. Fischer, Jeweler and Optician; James P. Harbeson, Circuit Judge; Life Story of Charles L. Dudley; The Powers of Fleming County; County and City Directory, 1871 - 1873; Bath County Killing, 1872; Charles Lawson, Druggist; 16th Vol. Infantry, U. S. A.; A Letter from J. T. Walker, 1882; Marriage and Deaths, 1883; Marriages of 1895; James P. Hendrick, The Presbyterian; Baldwin Piano Official; Fleming County, Kentucky Election of 1894; Dr. John Reynolds, Druggist; Railroad Accident, 1907; Judge C. E. Booe; Avenged At The Stake; Husband's Ire; Lynching; First 500 Draftees - World War I; Gems, Flowers and Bible Facts; Things To Think About --- Mason-Dixon Line; Isaac VanArsdell; House of Foul Play; Geographic Facts; An Old Account Book of 1792; My Old Kentucky Home; Concert of M. E. Church, South; Facts of Fleming County; The Slave Boy; Groundhog Day; Atlas of Fleming County; Fleming County's Worst Storm on Record; The Lost Town of Gath; The Gretna Green of the Ohio Valley; School Superintendents of Fleming County; Fleming County's Representatives.

Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky

Author : William Carlos Kozee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806305769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky written by William Carlos Kozee and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood and Treasure

Author : Bob Drury
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250247144
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Treasure written by Bob Drury and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall Street Journal The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power—Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the thirteen colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women who witnessed it. This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice.

Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky

Author : Lewis Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky written by Lewis Collins and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early Kentucky Householders, 1787-1811

Author :
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806311592
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Early Kentucky Householders, 1787-1811 written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a consolidated list of approximately 34,000 names that appeared in the annual tax lists for Lincoln County, Kentucky, between 1787 and 1811. Forty-six of the fifty-four Kentucky counties that existed in the year 1811 are mentioned in the descriptions of landholdings claimed by Lincoln County householders during this period; in fact, nearly half of the counties were created out of the original Lincoln County boundaries. Thus a Lincoln County tax list can essentially be viewed as a statewide tax list. This is an important consideration because a tax list of this magnitude can actually stand as a substitute for the missing 1790 and 1800 Kentucky censuses. Mr. Sutherland's "householders" are heads of household who do not necessarily own the land on which they and their families lived. Taxpayers (i.e., householders) recorded in the annual tax lists between 1787 and 1811 are listed here in alphabetical order along with the date of the tax list, the number of the tax book and the page number of the original entry, and an enumeration of all other persons living in the household. As an aid to research the compiler has drawn up a complete "Surname Directory," which groups the phonetic variations of each name under a common spelling so that the researcher has only to search for the "common" spelling rather than the variants. This is a superb research tool

The Kentucky Land Grants

Author : Willard Rouse Jillson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2056 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kentucky Land Grants written by Willard Rouse Jillson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 2056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early Kentucky Settlers

Author : Filson Club History Quarterly
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806312130
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Early Kentucky Settlers written by Filson Club History Quarterly and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1988 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are extracted court records.

Daniel Boone

Author : Michael Lofaro
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813128862
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Boone written by Michael Lofaro and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The embodiment of the American hero, the man of action, the pathfinder, Daniel Boone represents the great adventure of his age—the westward movement of the American people. Daniel Boone: An American Life brings together over thirty years of research in an extraordinary biography of the quintessential pioneer. Based on primary sources, the book depicts Boone through the eyes of those who knew him and within the historical contexts of his eighty-six years. The story of Daniel Boone offers new insights into the turbulent birth and growth of the nation and demonstrates why the frontier forms such a significant part of the American experience.

The Green River of Kentucky

Author : Helen Bartter Crocker
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150302
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Green River of Kentucky written by Helen Bartter Crocker and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting a wide east-west swath from the Appalachian foothills to the heart of the western Kentucky coalfields, the Green River valley extends from below the Tennessee border in the south to the Ohio River in the north. The Green River of Kentucky presents a picture of the unity and diversity of the people living in the Green River valley. Helen Bartter Crocker finds that each generation of its people approached the river in a distinctive way. Early settlers used the river simply as it was—crooked and narrow with an unpredictable water flow, and navigable only under high-water conditions. The sons of these pioneers were interested in bringing steamboats to the valley; until they succeeded in persuading the state legislature to improve the Green River and its tributary, the Barren, by a series of locks and dams, however, volunteers would work—often up to their necks in water—until they cleared the river sufficiently to allow steamers to reach Bowling Green at high water. When the locks and dams were reopened following the Civil War, a local private corporation gained a near-monopoly of the river trade. Public outcry against this private ownership caused the federal government to take control, and through the Corps of Engineers, to undertake extensive river improvements. After the Great Depression, when trade was almost at a standstill, additional federal funds were appropriated for flood-control dams in the upper river and modern locks in the lower river to harness the valley's industrial potential. These opened up coal barging and recreational facilities, which ensured the future economic well being of the Green River valley.

Boonesborough Unearthed

Author : Nancy O'Malley
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813177626
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Boonesborough Unearthed written by Nancy O'Malley and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Revolutionary War, Fort Boonesborough was one of the most important and defensively crucial sites on the western frontier. It served not only as a stronghold against the British but also as a sanctuary, land office, and a potential seat of government. Originally meant to be the capital of a new American colony, Fort Boonesborough was thrust into a defensive role by the onset of the Revolutionary War. Post-Revolutionary attempts to develop a town failed and the site was abandoned. Yet Fort Boonesborough lived on in local memory. Boonesborough Unearthed: Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort is the result of more than thirty years of research by archaeologist Nancy O'Malley. This groundbreaking book presents new information and fresh insights about Fort Boonesborough and life in frontier Kentucky. O'Malley examines the story of this historical landmark from its founding during a time of war into the nineteenth century. O'Malley also delves into the lives of the settlers who lived there, and explores the Transylvania Company's dashed hopes of forming a fourteenth colony at the fort. This insightful and informative work is a fascinating exploration into Kentucky's frontier past.

Bell County, Kentucky

Author : Tim Cornett
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781596298095
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Bell County, Kentucky written by Tim Cornett and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Site of the Gateway to the West, the Cumberland Gap, the history of Kentucky begins right here in Bell County. Early pioneers like Thomas Walker and Daniel Boone endured the untamed wilderness and opened the door to the Bluegrass for civilizations to follow. Those who subsequently made their homes here- who eked a living out of the rocky soil and survived civil war, world war, labor war and the booms and busts of timber and coal- have preserved this pioneering spirit. Lifelong resident Tim Cornett presents the history of his homeland from its first known inhabitants through the twentieth century, drawing on old letters, memoirs and personal interviews from the men and women who explored the land, exploited the land and shaped it into the Bell County we know today.

The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke

Author : John Filson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke written by John Filson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early Kentucky Pioneers

Author : David Lowell Gallit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Early Kentucky Pioneers written by David Lowell Gallit and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Kentucky Frontier: A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West

Author : James Otis
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040492944
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book On the Kentucky Frontier: A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West written by James Otis and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hannah of Kentucky: A Story of the Wilderness Road

Author : James Otis
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016113731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Hannah of Kentucky: A Story of the Wilderness Road written by James Otis and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.