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The Kentucky Standard was started December 15, 1900 by Jack Wilson, a former employee of the Nelson County Record.The newspaper was sold to Nelson County Circuit Clerk Wallace Brown in 1901.
Artist of The Girl Puzzle (NYC), [207] artist of United We Stand, Divided We Fall (COVID Memorial KY), public speaker Born in Mt. Washington; lives in Lexington: Kate Matthews (1870–1956) Photographer [208] Born in New Albany, Indiana, but spent most of her life in Pewee Valley [208] Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925–1972) Photographer [209]
Bardstown is a home rule-class city [5] in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 13,567 in the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Nelson County. [6] Bardstown is named for the pioneering Bard brothers. David Bard obtained a 1,000-acre (400 ha) land grant in 1785 in what was then Jefferson County, Virginia.
He was a monk in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death. Merton wrote more than 50 books in a period of 27 years, [ 1 ] mostly on spirituality , social justice , and pacifism , as well as scores of essays and reviews.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The Confederate Monument of Bardstown, in Bardstown, Kentucky [2] was erected in 1903 in the Bardstown St. Joseph's Cemetery to honor the sacrifice of 67 Confederate States Army soldiers, who died during the American Civil War. Some 17 of the soldiers are still unknown.
One state park is named in honor of Foster's songs, My Old Kentucky Home State Park, a historic mansion formerly named Federal Hill, located in Bardstown, Kentucky, where Foster is said to have been an occasional visitor according to his brother, Morrison Foster. [citation needed] The park dedicated a bronze statue in honor of Stephen's work.
On August 4, 2003, a fire destroyed a Jim Beam aging warehouse in Bardstown, Kentucky. It held 15,000 barrels (795,000 US gal or 3,010,000 L) [note 1] of bourbon. Flames rose more than 100 feet from the structure. Burning bourbon spilled from the warehouse into a nearby creek. An estimated 19,000 fish died of the bourbon in the creek and a river.