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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.
Fountain Run is located at (36.721319, -85.961398) [17] in western Monroe County, near the point where Allen, Monroe, and Barren counties come together Kentucky Route 100 passes through the south side of the community, leading east 18 miles (29 km) to Tompkinsville, the county seat, and west 16 miles (26 km) to Scottsville.
The Russell Lodge No. 284, also known as the Jamestown Masonic Lodge, on Public Square in Jamestown, Kentucky, is a Masonic Hall which was built in 1939.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Russell County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,991. [1] Its county seat is Jamestown and its largest city is Russell Springs. [2]
The county is named for Colonel William Christian, a native of Augusta County, Virginia, and a veteran of the Revolutionary War.He settled near Louisville, Kentucky in 1785, and was killed by Native Americans in southern Indiana in 1786.
The documentary argues that the violent social collapse within the Pruitt-Igoe complex was not due to the demographic composition of its residents, [2] but was a result of wider, external social forces, namely the declining economic fortunes of St. Louis, the resulting impact upon employment opportunities, and the project's failure to meet ...
The town of Rineyville, KY historical marker. Rineyville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hardin County, Kentucky, United States. It is located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Elizabethtown. The population was 3,039 as of the 2020 Census. The Paducah and Louisville Railway runs north and south through the community.
Matthews Aurora Funeral Solutions (formerly the Aurora Casket Company) is one of the largest manufacturers of caskets and funerary urns in the United States, selling over 38% of the country's caskets as of 2005. The Aurora, Indiana–based company is a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based Matthews International.