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Much of the district is formed of buildings for the late 18th to 19th centuries, with the more prominent ones built between 1800 and 1830, including the homes of four Kentucky governors. Most of the modern structures in the district were designed so as to blend in with older buildings.
It is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Russell County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 2 properties listed on the National Register in the ...
On April 27, 1971, a violent F4 tornado struck Gosser Ridge and other parts of Russell and Pulaski County, Kentucky. [1] [2] [3] In November 1999, the National Climatic Data Center published a list of the historical F5 tornadoes in the United States from 1880 to 1999, which rated the Gosser Ridge tornado as an F5 tornado. [4]
The episode will focus on the events of Jan. 25, 1865, when 22 Civil War soldiers were ambushed by outlaws and killed, while 20 more were injured, during a cattle drive to Louisville.
The location of the monument is important, as the nearby William Forst House was the site of the founding of the Confederate government of Kentucky in November 1861. [2] Over 1000 residents of Russellville served in the Army of the Confederate States of America, compared to 500 who served in the Union Army of the United States of America. The ...
PowerOutage.us, another online tracker, reported approximately 5,300 people are without power in Fayette County as of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, and 15,343 across Kentucky. More than 30,000 statewide ...
The community was established in 1826 to be the seat of the newly formed Russell County.It was briefly known as Jacksonville in honor of General Andrew Jackson, [9] who had just won a plurality of the popular vote during the 1824 presidential election but lost the runoff in the House of Representatives, largely because of the "corrupt bargain" struck by Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
Creelsboro is a historic town in Russell County, Kentucky, United States. The declining town was thriving some sixteen years before Russell County was formed. It was named for Elijah Creel, an early settler. Creelsboro was a trade center along the Cumberland River in the 19th century although its population was only about 50.