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PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES
#4 - KENTUCKY
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1892
Lithographer: Donaldson Bros.
  
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Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| KENTUCKY. |
| KENTUCKY was included in
the royal grants to Virginia, and
from time to time her adventurous
hunters and the mountaineers of
North Carolina explored parts of
the empty land. In 1769 Daniel
Boone and John Findley entered
this region and remained for two
years. In 1770 Washington visited
northeastern Kentucky, and Col.
Knox and his long hunters
explored other parts. Harodsburg
was established in 1774, and the
next year Boone founded the fort
Boonesborough, bringing to it his
wife and daughters. |
| In 1776
Kentucky became a county of
Virginia. The annals of the
region for many years are lurid
with Indian attacks and
massacres; the sieges of the
American fortified stations, and
the bloody frays of the fierce
northern savages and the British
troops from Canada. In 1806 the
mysterious scheme of Aaron Burr
for conquering a southwestern
empire out of Spain's colonies
was under way, but the vast
majority of the people and their
leaders remained loyal and
law-abiding. And so this
consipracy came to naught, and
Kentucky, in due time, attained
the honors of Statehood. |
| The
Kentuckians have always been a
martial race. Since the war flags
were furled, Kentucky has made
great advances in prosperity and
wealth, building many important
railways and beautifying her
cities. The larger development of
her coal and iron mines, now just
beginning, bids fair to be of
vast value and significance. Of
late years there has been a
series of bloody vendettas
between families of the
mountaineers of Pike, Rowan and
other counties, and detachments
of militia have been sent up
there from time to time to
restore transient order. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
The
Mammoth Cave; "Old Kentucky
Home"; Horse-Racing;
Daniel Boone, 1769 |
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