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Kentucky Highlands Timeline - 1780
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Kentucky County, Virginia, is divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln Counties. |
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Lincoln county was established in 1780 and named after Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810), a Revolutionary War officer and Secretary of War for the Continental Congress. The county seat is Stanford. |
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Dr. Thomas Walker runs the deviant survey of Kentucky's southern boundary that becomes known as Walker's Line. |
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Samuel Goodwin founds a fort on the Salt River west of present-day Bardstown. |
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The over 600 inhabitants of Kentucky and Illinois ask the Continental Congress to form a new state along the Ohio Valley. |
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1781 |
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A Virginia act allows the county courts to have surveys done for people who can not pay for them. |
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The first Baptist congregation in Kentucky is established near present-day Elizabethtown. |
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Lewis and Elijah Craig lead 500 members of the Traveling Church from Virginia to present-day Lancaster and found Gilbert's Creek Station. |
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Daniel Boone is one of the commanding officers at the Kentuckians' defeat by the Indians at the Blue Licks. His son Israel is killed during the battle. |
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1782 |
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Indians at an intertribal council decide to eliminate the Kentucky settlements while British help is still available. |
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Monk Estill becomes the first freed slave in Kentucky history. After being taken prisoner by Wyandots outside Estill’s Station, he convinces the Indians they cannot take the fort. When the settlers overtake the Indians and their captive, Estill helps out |
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Daniel Boone commands of a company that attacks Shawnee towns in November. |
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1783 |
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The Virginia General Assembly creates the District of Kentucky as a judicial region. |
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1783 |
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Daniel Boone settles down and relocates family to Limestone, on the Ohio River and takes up tavern keeping, surveying, and land speculating. |
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1784 |
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John Filson publishes The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke. |
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1784 |
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First of ten conventions held to prepare way for separation of Kentucky from Virginia. |
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1785 |
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Bourbon County is established. |
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1785 |
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Catholic families from Maryland settle in present-day Nelson and Scott Counties. |
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1785 |
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Mercer County is established. |
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1785 |
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Mason County is established. |
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1785 |
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Valley View Ferry begins operation on the Kentucky River between present-day Fayette and Madison Counties. |
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1786 |
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Madison county was established in 1786 and named after James Madison (1751-1836), member of the Constitutional Convention and U.S. President. The county seat is Richmond. |
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1786 |
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Bishop Francis Asbury appoints James Haw and Benjamin Ogden circuit riders for the District of Kentucky. |
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James Wilkinson journeys to New Orleans to convince the Spanish governor that Kentucky is about to separate from the United States. |
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Woodford County is established. |
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1789 |
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The Fourth Enabling Act in the Virginia Compact sets the conditions of separation. |
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1789 |
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Harmon's Station, founded on the Big Sandy River, becomes the first permanent settlement in eastern Kentucky. |
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1789 |
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The process for making bourbon whiskey is developed. |
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