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Information Updated: Apr 25, 2009 |
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Formed from: portions of portions of Fleming, Mason & Montgomery Counties. Established: xx-xxx-1800 |
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County Seat: Prestonsburg, Kentucky County history - Floyd County is named in honor of Col. John Floyd (1700-1783), pioneer surveyor and military leader of Jefferson County. |  |
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Information Updated: Apr 9, 2009 |
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Formed from: portions of Woodford, Mercer and Shelby Counties. Established: 07-Dec-1794 |
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County Seat: Frankfort, Kentucky County history - Franklin County is named in honor of the American inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin. |  |
Capitol history - From 1792 to 1830, Kentucky had two buildings serve as the capitol, both were destroyed by fire. In 1830, a new capitol was built and was in use until 1910. A bitterly contested 1899 state governor election came to a climax when Democratic claimant William Goebel was assassinated at the capitol on his way to be inaugurated. The building was replaced due to the need for a larger building for a growing state government. Today, that capitol building is a museum. In 1904, the Kentucky General Assembly chose Frankfort (over Lexington and Louisville) as the location for the state capital. The present Capitol building (built: 1905-1909) still serves the State today. — courtesy Kentucky Finance Administration Capitol Tour. |  |
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Information Updated: May 16, 2010 |
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Formed from: portions of Hickman County, a part of the Jackson Purchase from the Chickasaw Indians, 1818. Established: xx-xxx-1845 |
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County Seat: Hickman, Kentucky County history - Fulton County is named in honor of Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 - February 24, 1815), an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800 he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, which was the first practical submarine in history. |  |
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Information Updated: Jul 7, 2010 |
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Formed from: portions of Franklin and Shelby Counties. Established: 14-Dec-1798 |
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County Seat: Warsaw, Kentucky County history - Gallatin County is named in honor of Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 August 12, 1849) was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, Congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was also a founder of New York University. |  |
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Information Updated: May 19, 2010 |
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Formed from: portions of Pendleton County. Established: xx-xxx-1820 |
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County Seat: Williamstown, Kentucky County history - Grant County is named in honor of (some debate here) Samuel Grant (1762-1789/1794), Colonel John Grant (1754-1826), and / or Squire Grant (1764-1833), all of whom were early settlers of Kentucky. |  |
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Information Updated: Jul 7, 2010 |
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Formed from: portions of Hardin and Ohio Counties. Established: xx-xxx-1810 |
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County Seat: Leitchfield, Kentucky County history - Grayson County is named in honor of William Grayson (1736 - 12 March 1790) was a soldier, serving as an aide-de-camp to George Washington, Grayson rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Grayson was also a lawyer, and statesman from Virginia. He was one of the first two U.S. Senators from Virginia, and belonged to the Anti-Federalist faction. |  |
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Information Updated: May 17, 2010 |
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Formed from: portions of Lincoln and Nelson Counties. Established: xx-xxx-1792 |
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County Seat: Greensburg, Kentucky County history - Green County is named in honor of Nathanael Greene (August 7, 1742 - June 19, 1786), a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. When the war began, Greene was a militia private, the lowest rank possible; he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer. |  |
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Information Updated: May 4, 2009 |
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Formed from: portions of Mason County. Established: 12-Dec-1803 |
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County Seat: Greenup, Kentucky County history - Greenup County is named in honor of Christopher Greenup (1700-1818), who served as a Kentucky representative to Congress, and was later elected governor of Kentucky in 1804. |  |
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