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Lots were sold at public auction in June 1854, and the City of Ashland was incorporated by an act of the Kentucky Legislature in 1856. Boyd County was created by the Legislature in 1860, primarily from Greenup County. The first child born in the new town of Ashland was named Ashland Poage, a mixture of the old and new names. [8]
Ellis was tried May 30, convicted, and given a life term, but a mob removed him from the jail on the night of the 31st and lynched him in Ashland. To avoid another lynch mob threat, Craft and Neal were moved under heavy guard by the steamboat Granite State from Catlettsburg to Ashland on November 1. They were met along the shore of Ashland by a ...
Ashland is a home rule-class city [3] in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States. The most populous city in Boyd County, Ashland is located upon a southern bank of the Ohio River at the state border with Ohio and near West Virginia. The population was 21,625 at the 2020 census.
A Kentucky State Police report appears to have undercounted homicides reported in Jefferson County
The Main Street of log and wood frame buildings from the 1840s evolved as entrepreneurs built upon grander aspirations, generally using brick.
In November 2007, the executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) went further than the FBI itself, and approved a resolution opposing not only the use of the ratings to judge police departments, but also any development of city crime rankings from FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs) at all. The resolution opposed these rankings ...
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, about half of domestic violence incidents were not reported to authorities in 2019. This is an alarming increase from 33 percent of unreported ...
Boyd County was the 107th of 120 counties formed in Kentucky and was established in 1860 from parts of surrounding Greenup, Carter, and Lawrence Counties. [3] It was named for Linn Boyd of Paducah, former U.S. congressman, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, who died in 1859 soon after being elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky.