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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CGM_birthplace-of-carry-a-nation-lady-with-the-hatchet_Lancaster-KY.html
Obverse Birthplace of Carry A. Nation With hatchet in hand, this famous Kentuckian harassed saloon owners across U.S. Four miles from here on Carry Nation Rd. is house where she was born, 1846; lived there five years and in other Ky. towns …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A82_home-of-gov-bradley_Lancaster-KY.html
Built about 1850, by A. A. Burton, Lincoln's Minister to Bogota; home of William O. Bradley, first Republican Governor of Kentucky, 1895-99. By special legislative action, 1865, permitted to take bar examination at 18 and passed. In 1904, seconded…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A81_local-authoress_Lancaster-KY.html
Eugenia Dunlap Potts, daughter of George Dunlap, US Congressman and lawyer, was born in Garrard County in 1840 and pursued her literary career here, where she died, 1912. The first of her nine works was "Song of Lancaster," a metrical history in s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A80_home-of-statesmen_Lancaster-KY.html
Side 1: 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. John Boyl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A7Y_buford-salter-house_Lancaster-KY.html
Built ca. 1820 on lot #46 of the original town plat. Thomas Buford son of town founder, Wm. Buford., appointed sheriff of Garrard Co. in 1803. He was a member of Ky. Legislature, 1806-09, and served in Senate, 1809. Veteran of War of 1812. In 1841…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A7W_first-presbyterian-church_Lancaster-KY.html
When founded in 1816 by Presbytery of Transylvania, it had 22 members. The first minister was James C. Barnes, who also served Paint Lick Church. Congregation worshiped in the Republican (Union) Church until 1846; second building on Buford and Sta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A7U_pleasant-retreat_Lancaster-KY.html
Home of William Owsley and his son-in-law Simeon Anderson. Built about 1815. Owsley, 1782-1862, State House of Representatives and Senate; Court of Appeals; Kentucky Secretary of State and Governor of Kentucky 1844-48. Owsley County named for him.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A7T_garrard-county-1797_Lancaster-KY.html
Taken from parts of Lincoln, Madison, and Mercer, it was the 25th county formed. Lancaster, county seat, established in 1798. Named for James Garrard, then governor of Kentucky, 1796-1804. A native of Virginia, served as militia officer in Revolut…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A7R_lancaster-public-spring_Lancaster-KY.html
In early 1776 John Wilson and Andrew Cowan erected two small cabins near this location. In October of 1782 James Speed settled near this spring. In 1797 William Buford chose this spring to furnish water for the new Garrard Court. It continued as L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A7Q_walker-foxhounds_Lancaster-KY.html
Site of John W. Walker's home where he and George Washington Maupin, avid hunters, bred and developed famous Walker foxhounds. With red fox migration into central Ky., ca. 1852, Virginia hounds were crossed with "Tennessee Lead," a dog noted for s…
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