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Kentucky Highlands Timeline - 1870
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Martin county was established in 1870 and named after John P. Martin (1811-1862), a Kentucky legislator U.S. Representative and Senator. The county seat is Inez. |
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Lee county was established in 1870. There is some confusion concerning the origin of the county name. Some believe it was named after Gen. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) the famous Confederate General. Others believe the county was named after Gen Lighthorse Harry Lee (1756-1818), a Revolutionary War officer and Virginia Governor. The county seat is Beattyville. |
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1871 |
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Governor Stevenson resigns after being elected to the U. S. Senate. Preston Leslie, president of the Kentucky Senate, becomes governor and later wins the general election. |
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Columbia was the first town in Kentucky to go “dry” after the passage “local option law of 1872” by the General Assembly. |
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On April 29, 1872 four reputed members of the Jesse James Gang robbed the Bank of Columbia of about $4000 and killed the bank cashier. |
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Cholera epidemic - thousands of people are believed to have died statewide. It wasn’t until 1882 that the link between cholera and contaminated water was discovered. |
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1875 |
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James B. McCreary is elected governor. |
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One of the strangest Bath County events took place on March 3, 1876 when flakes of meat fell over an area 100 yards long and 50 yards wide near the Bath, Kentucky home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Crouch. The sky was clear at the time of the fall and the flakes of meat were described as being one to three or four inches square and appeared to be fresh beef. However, according to two gentlemen who (for some reason) decided to taste the meat, it was neither mutton nor venison. Locals believed that the meat had been disgorged by buzzards, “who, as is their custom, seeing one of their companions disgorge himself, immediately followed suit.” However no one could explain just how many buzzards would be required to vomit that much meat, how much they would have had to have eaten - or just how high they had been flying as to render themselves invisible to those on the ground! |
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Leslie county was established in 1878 and named after Preston H Leslie (1819-1907), a Governor of Kentucky and territorial Governor of Montana. The county seat is Hyden. |
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1878 |
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A yellow fever epidemic begins. |
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1879 |
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Susan B. Anthony speaks in Richmond. This sparked the state's first permanent women's rights association, Madison County Equal Rights Association. |
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1879 |
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One million tons of coal produced in Kentucky. |
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1879 |
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Dr. Luke Pryor Blackburn is elected governor. |
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