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General store co-owner, real estate investor, plantation owner (through family), Kentucky representative. Known for. Abraham Lincoln's best friend and a close confidant. Joshua Fry Speed (November 14, 1814 – May 29, 1882) was an American planter and businessman. He was a close friend of future President Abraham Lincoln from his days in ...
Location. 200-600 blocks of Walnut St., Springfield, Kentucky. Coordinates. 37°41′12″N 85°13′10″W / 37.68667°N 85.21944°W / 37.68667; -85.21944. Area. 7 acres (2.8 ha) Architectural style. Bungalow/craftsman, Late Victorian, Federal. MPS.
Stephen Trigg (c. 1744 – August 19, 1782) was an American pioneer and soldier from Virginia. He was killed ten months after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in one of the last battles of the American Revolution while leading the Lincoln County militia at the Battle of Blue Licks, Kentucky. A son of William and Mary (Johns) Trigg, he ...
This is a list of plantations (including plantation houses) in the U.S. state of Kentucky, which are: National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1 ...
Barton Warren Stone (December 24, 1772 – November 9, 1844) was an American evangelist during the early 19th-century Second Great Awakening in the United States. First ordained a Presbyterian minister, he and four other ministers of the Washington Presbytery resigned after arguments about doctrine and enforcement of policy by the Kentucky Synod.
The history of the Acadians was significantly influenced by the six colonial wars that took place in Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries (see the four French and Indian Wars, Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War). Eventually, the last of the colonial wars—the French and Indian War —resulted in the British Expulsion of the ...
October 4, 1988. (#88001755) Kentucky Route 1868, 1 mile west of its junction with Kentucky Route 1136. 37°36′05″N 85°54′20″W / 37.601389°N 85.905556°W / 37.601389; -85.905556 (Ashe House) Glendale. 5. Bethlehem Academy Historic District. Upload image. October 4, 1988.
859. FIPS code. 21-72660. GNIS feature ID. 2405510 [2] Website. www.springfieldky.org. Springfield is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Washington County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,846 at the 2020 census.