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21-54084. GNIS feature ID. 0498865. Website. mtsterling.ky.gov. Mount Sterling, often written as Mt. Sterling, [5] is a home rule-class city [6] in Montgomery County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 7,558 as of the 2020 census, [3] up from 6,895 in 2010. It is the county seat of Montgomery County and the principal city of the Mount ...
Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterling. More images. July 17, 1997(#97000675) Machpelan Cemetery, 1.5 miles east of the junction of U.S. Route 460 and Kentucky Route 713 38°03′23″N83°55′55″W / 38.056389°N 83.931944°W / 38.056389; -83.931944 (Confederate Monument of Mt. Sterling) Mount Sterling. 6.
Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,114. [1] Its county seat is Mount Sterling. [2] With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county—a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city where package alcohol sales are allowed, in this case Mount Sterling. [3]
Battle. On June 8, 1864, General John Hunt Morgan 's Cavalry attacked U.S. forces guarding a vital supply depot at Mount Sterling. The C.S. forces attacked the U.S. Army camp in Mount Sterling under the command of Captain Edward Barlow. The Confederates captured 380 prisoners and material and took $59,000 from Farmers' Bank.
He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Kentucky in 1875, and was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1876. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1879 and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885. He failed in his reelection bid and returned to his agricultural pursuits. Williams became involved in land development in ...
The Battle of Little Mountain, also known as Estill's Defeat, was fought on March 22, 1782, near Mount Sterling in what is now Montgomery County, Kentucky.One of the bloodiest engagements of the Kentucky frontier, the battle has long been the subject of controversy resulting from the actions of one of Captain James Estill's officers, William Miller, who ordered a retreat that left the rest of ...
Dr. James Wynne Coburn (1789–1850) married 1) Susannah Smith Doniphan [ 29] and 2) Mary Walton. [ 30] His first wife was the first cousin of Col. Alexander William Doniphan. John Coburn (1791–1804), died unmarried. Dr. Wilson Coburn (1793–1833) married Anne Wood. [ 31] America Coburn (1796–1826) married 1) Thomas Chalfont [ 31] and 2 ...
It’s happened several times. Aaron Mudd. June 13, 2023 at 3:28 PM. Flyers seemingly from a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan have been distributed recently in three Kentucky communities, including Mt ...