Month: May 2022
He was known as the “King of the Wild Frontier”, a soldier, a politician in the Tennessee Legislature, a politician in Washington D.C., an indian fighter, a wild game hunter, a prolific storyteller, an author, and the original Tennessee Volunteer! Davy Crockett! Many remember watching Disney on Sunday nights with Fess Parker playing Davy Crockett…
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He has been called, the “Washington of the West”, the “Conquer of the Old Northwest”, and the “Founder of Louisville”, General George Rogers Clark. Clark, often referred to as “GRC”, is today buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, in Louisville, Kentucky, but his life that lead here to his final resting spot was nothing short of…
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Its beauty is unbelievable, which is why it is one of most visited places in the whole entire region, Cave Hill Cemetery, in Louisville, Kentucky. Cave Hill was originally a farm owned by the Johnston family, and at that time, was several miles east of Louisville. The farm had a freshwater spring coming from a…
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Daniel Boone sold him land! Ninian Claggett came from Frederick, Maryland, likely through the Cumberland Gap, and he settled in an area known as Marble Creek, in what is now known as Fayette County, Kentucky. It was there that he started his family. Today we are looking at the life of Ninian MacGregor Claggett, one…
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His rowdy friends set out to have a lot of fun on the town, down in Nashville, but instead, he ran into an event that changed his life and the face of Nashville forever. Captain Tom Ryman was one of Nashville’s wealthiest citizens, and he built a shipping empire down on the Cumberland River, called…
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A quaint bedroom community in the Louisville area with loads of history! Spencer County, Kentucky, is named for the founder, and commander of the famous Yellow Jackets, that famous militia unit from Tecumseh’s War, and the War of 1812. Its county seat is named after an early explorer, Revolutionary War veteran, and the father of…
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In 1769, he and his brother were in the first group of white men to travel from Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River, and then down to Mississippi River, all the way to New Orleans. He was a Revolutionary War veteran, who assisted George Washington at Valley Forge, a successful landowner and businessman, and he is…
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For almost 200 years the Spencer House, has stood as an anchor, and a landmark in the community of Taylorsville, Kentucky. This popular rest stop was on the Louisville and Taylorsville stage route, and it was a famous hotel, and a tavern for many years. The building was built about 1838, by Frederick B. Mathis.…
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The most exciting two minutes in sports, the Kentucky Derby! He created it! Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. Clark was the grandson of the famous William Clark, from the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the son of major Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr., the aide de camp, and son-in-law, to General Stephen W. Kearny in the Mexican…
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“The Spy That Saved the Union”! It is said that he was tired of the Confederate flag being shoved down his throat, so he did more than his part to help preserve the Union. Felix Grundy Stidger isn’t a household name, but his efforts during the Civil War, were nothing short of monumental. The house…
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