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Bourbon County was established in 1785 from a portion of Fayette County, Virginia, [3] [4] and named after the French House of Bourbon, [5] in gratitude for Louis XVI of France's assistance during the American Revolutionary War. Bourbon County, Virginia, originally comprised 34 of Kentucky's 120 current counties, including the current Bourbon ...
Campbell County was founded December 17, 1794, two years after the creation of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, becoming the state's 19th county. Campbell County was carved out of Scott, Harrison and Mason counties. [5] The original county included all of present Boone, Kenton, Pendleton, and most of Bracken and Grant counties.
Ohio (/ oʊ ˈ h aɪ. oʊ / ⓘ oh-HY-oh) [14] is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest.
The Fairfax County branch of the Democratic Party issued a statement denouncing the arrests of students at Virginia schools. [55] Virginia representatives Rozia Henson, Joshua Cole, Adele McClure, Nadarius Clark, and Saddam Salim released a joint statement condemning the arrests of student protesters in Virginia.
Pike County is the seventy-first Kentucky county in order of creation. Pike County was founded on December 19, 1821, from a portion of Floyd County. [7] The county was named for General Zebulon Pike, the explorer who discovered Pikes Peak, and who became a national hero and namesake after his death in the War of 1812. [8]
Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776. In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties. Kentucky was admitted as a state in 1792, when it had nine counties. [4] Each county has a legislative council called the fiscal court; [5] despite the name, it no longer has any ...
Initially intended as a night school, Georgia State University was established in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce. [22] A reorganization of the University System of Georgia in the 1930s led to the school becoming the Atlanta Extension Center of the University System of Georgia and allowed night students to earn degrees from several colleges in the ...
The University of Mary Washington was founded in Fredericksburg in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women, to train white women for teaching K-12 and industrial skills. Adopting the name of Mary Washington College in 1938, the college was for many years associated with the University of Virginia (then limited to white men) as ...