Month: September 2021
September 26, 1820…As a student of history and an avid Daniel Boone devotee, I simply could not let this day pass without paying homage to the man who arguably shaped the nation by helping to blaze the trail into Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap that led to the great influx of settlers seeking new lands…
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In our first installment, Sam Houston; Pioneer, Patriot, Statesman, President – Part I, we explored the early life of Sam Houston, beginning with his birth and childhood in Virginia, his running away from home and living with the Cherokee in East Tennessee for three years, his military service, law career and entry into the political…
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 In our last installment, Sam Houston Part II – Life with the Cherokee, we explored the complex role Sam Houston played in the lives of the Cherokee people he had long identified with, both as an adopted member of the Cherokee Nation, and as an agent of the United States government who, led by the…
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Everyone knows that Sam Houston is kind of a big deal in Texas. But what most don’t know is that his life was so much more than just his being “the hero of San Jacinto” and the namesake of Texas’ largest city. Born in Rockbridge County, Virginia on March 2, 1793, Houston was one of…
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Nearly everyone in Kentucky with even a remote interest in history has heard of the Hunt and Morgan families of Lexington. The most famous (or infamous) being General John Hunt Morgan, “The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy”. Morgan’s Raiders kept Union commanders on their toes during the 1862-1864 raids through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, but Morgan’s…
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The Cahokia Courthouse is located in the village of Cahokia, which is in St. Clair County, Illinois. The structure was built as a residence around 1740, when present-day Illinois was a colony of France. In 1793 the structure was purchased by the Common Pleas Court of the United States Northwest Territory and subsequently became a…
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