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Louisville (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
Harrodsburg (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
Kentucky,
In 1776 Kentucky was made a county of Virginia, and in 1777 the first court was held at Harrodsburg.
Conventions held at Danville in 1784-85 recommended a peaceable and constitutional separation from Virginia.
In 1786 an act was passed by the Virginia legislature complying with the desires of Kentucky.
There was delay in consummating the change.
Other conventions were held urging the matter.
In 1790 Kentucky became a separate Territory, and on June 1, 1792, it was admitted into the Union as a State.
Its population at that time was about 75,000.
For several years much uneasiness was felt among the people of Kentucky on account of Indian depredations and the cloudiness of the political skies, for the great questions of the free navigation of the Mississippi River and the ultimate possession of Louisiana were unsettled.
These were settled satisfactorily by the purchase of Louisiana in 1803.
During the War of 1812 Kentucky took an active part, sending fully 7,000 m
Gulf (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
Prestonburg (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
Cumberland Gap (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
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Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
Kentucky River (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
Green (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky
Bird's Point, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry kentucky