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Richard Callaway (June 14, 1717 – November 8, 1780) was an American frontiersman, military officer, politician, and hunter who was one of the first white settlers in modern-day Kentucky. Born in Essex County, Virginia, Callaway joined Daniel Boone in 1775 in marking the Wilderness Road into central Kentucky, becoming one of the founders of ...
Iconic explorer and trapper, first entered Kentucky on hunting expeditions in 1767, carved Wilderness Trail from Eastern Tennessee through Cumberland Gap into Central Kentucky to Kentucky River; established his fort, Boonesborough, in Madison County where he lived from 1775 to 1779; fought during Revolutionary War, primarily against pro-British ...
An Act passed both houses of the Kentucky Legislature on April 28, 1884 [3] providing for a branch penitentiary to be located in Eddyville, Kentucky.Former Confederate States brigadier general and Eddyville native Hylan Benton Lyon was the moving force behind the Kentucky State Branch Penitentiary being located in what is now Old Eddyville.
The development of prisons changed from the 1800s to the modern day era. As of 1990 there were over 750,000 people held in state prison or county jails. Prisons hadn't been designed to house such a high number of incarcerated individuals. With the development of new material and ideas, prisons changed physically to accommodate the rising ...
An ardent abolitionist, Fairbank actually served two prison terms in Kentucky. In 1845, both he and Delia Webster were convicted in the Fayette County for engineering the escape of a Black family.
The body was sent to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort for an autopsy and toxicology test.
This system was so effective that people in towns 25 miles (40 km) from Boston were aware of the army's movements while they were still unloading boats in Cambridge. [33] These early warnings played a crucial role in assembling a sufficient number of colonial militia to inflict heavy damage on the British regulars later in the day.
A female jail inmate in Kentucky has died after jumping out of a moving vehicle in an attempted escape, according to authorities. A news release Tuesday from the Fayette County Coroner's Office ...