History

194 places

• Adams Site (15Fu4) 1100 – 1500
• Andalex Village (15Hk22), Hopkins County Hopkins County · 1175 – 1275
• Ann McGinty 1775 – 1815
• Annis Mound & Village (15Bt2) 1300 – 1350
• Ashland Central Park Adena Mounds Boyd County · 500 BCE – 250 CE
• Augusta founding / Capt. Philip Buckner 1797
• Bagdad / Consolation rail stop 1850 – 1861
• Bardstown Founding Nelson County seat County · 1780 – 1788
• Basil Hayden Sr. / Holy Cross (Pottinger's Creek) Nelson County · 1785
• Battle of Blue Licks 1782
• Benjamin Logan / Logan's Station Lincoln County · 1775 – 1777
• Big Bone Lick Boone County · 10000 BCE – 8000 BCE
• Big Crossing Station / Great Crossing Scott County · 1780 – 1815
• Bland W. Ballard / Tyler Station Shelby County · 1761 – 1788
• Blue Jacket at Limestone (Maysville) Mason County · 1787 – 1788
• Bowling Green founding / Bolin Green (1798) 1798
• Bryan Station siege (Aug 15–16, 1782) Fayette County · 1782
• Buck Pond / Col. Thomas Marshall Woodford County · 1783 – 1802
• Buckner Site (15Bb12) 1200 – 1550
• Bullitt's Lick Bullitt County · 1773 – 1780
• Burlington (Boone County seat) Boone County · 1799 – 1816
• C. and O. Mounds, Paintsville (approximate) Johnson County · 500 BCE – 250 CE
• Camp Nelson (Civil War depot and USCT recruiting center) Jessamine County · 1863 – 1865
• Camp Nelson USCT recruiting and training center Jessamine County · 1863 – 1866
• Campbellsville (Taylor County seat) Taylor County · 1800 – 1848
• Cane Ridge Meeting House (KHS marker #51) Bourbon County · 1791 – 1804
• Canewood, Gen. Charles Scott’s last home (KHS marker #116) Clark County · 1785 – 1813
• Capt. Jack Jouett / Craig’s Creek Woodford County · 1781 – 1822
• Capt. John Strode / Strode's Station 1779 Clark County 1779 – 1781
• Capt. Nathaniel Hart / White Oak Springs 1779 – 1782
• Capt. Will Emery / Long Hunters Warren County · 1769
• Carlisle courthouse square (Nicholas County seat since 1816) Nicholas County · 1799 – 1816
• Carlston Annis Shell Mound Butler County · 3000 BCE – 1000 BCE
• Carrollton (Port William) at the Kentucky–Ohio confluence Carroll County · 1792 – 1838
• Carter Caves / Cascade Cave & Falls 1946
• Catherine Spears Carpenter Casey County · 1806 – 1818
• Chambers Site (15Ml109), Marshall County (approximate) Marshall County · 1250 – 1350
• Chickasaw / Jackson Purchase Western Kentucky County · 1818
• Chiggerville (15Oh1) 3000 BCE – 1000 BCE
• Christopher Gist / Ohio Company Fayette County · 1750
• Cleek-McCabe Fort Ancient Village 1200 – 1300
• Cloudsplitter Rockshelter (15Mf36) 3000 BCE – 1000 BCE
• Col. John Bowman / Battle of Chillicothe 1779
• Col. John Hardin’s Pleasant Run homestead (approximate) Washington County · 1786 – 1792
• Col. John Todd of Lexington 1775 – 1782
• Col. William Russell III 1780 – 1813
• Concord Church / First Presbyterian Church, Danville (KHS #754) 1784 – 1789
• Craig's Station / Travelling Church (Gilbert's Creek) 1781 – 1783
• Cumberland Falls
• Cumberland Gap / Thomas Walker Bell County · 1750
• Cynthiana founding / Robert Harrison 1793
• Daniel Trabue House, Columbia (KHS marker #1782) Adair County · 1778 – 1840
• Danville Constitution Square Boyle County · 1784 – 1792
• David Snowden homeplace 1825 – 1914
• Diamond Caverns Park City / Ste. Genevieve limestone 1859
• Dover Mound (Adena burial mound, Mason County) 800 BCE – 700 CE
• Drennon Springs 1773 – 1785
• E.H. Taylor Jr. / Old Taylor Distillery — Bottled-in-Bond Act (1897) 1897
• Egushawa's Odawa at Martin's Station 1780 – 1795
• Elizabethtown founding / Severns Valley 1780 – 1797
• Ephraim McDowell House — first ovariotomy (1809) 1809
• Estill Springs 1814 – 1924
• Estill's Defeat Montgomery County · 1782
• Falls of the Ohio Clarksville County · 4000 BCE – 1800 CE
• Falmouth at the Licking Forks 1793 – 1799
• Father David Rice home marker, Greensburg (KHS #844) Green County · 1798 – 1816
• Flemingsburg (Fleming County courthouse) Fleming County · 1787 – 1812
• Fort Jefferson (Clark's post on the Mississippi) 1780 – 1781
• Fox Farm Fort Ancient Mason County · 1200 – 1700
• Frankfort Founding Franklin County · 1780 – 1830
• Gaitskill Mound Montgomery County · 800 BCE – 700 CE
• Gen. James Wilkinson’s Love House site, Frankfort (KHS marker #1182) Franklin County · 1784 – 1792
• George Rogers Clark / Corn Island Jefferson County · 1778 – 1780
• Georgetown / Royal Spring Scott County · 1774 – 1790
• Glasgow / Barren County seat 1798 – 1809
• Great Saltpetre Cave Rockcastle County · 1815
• Hancock Taylor / Taylor's Fork burial 1773 – 1774
• Hansen Site (15GP14) 2000 BCE – 1500 CE
• Hardin Village Fort Ancient Greenup County · 1550 – 1650
• Harry Innes (Frankfort / federal judge) 1783 – 1816
• Hartford / Fort Hartford (Rough River) Ohio County · 1782 – 1808
• Henderson / Red Banks 1797 – 1799
• Henry McKenna 1855 – 1883
• Hidden River Cave (Horse Cave) Hart County · 1890 – 1943
• Hodgenville (Hodgen’s Mill), KHS marker #1096 LaRue County · 1780 – 1843
• Holder's Station / Lower Howard's Creek Clark County · 1782 – 1799
• Hopkinsville founding (Elizabeth → Hopkinsville) 1797 – 1804
• Howard Site (15Ma427) Late Fort Ancient 1400 – 1750
• Hubbell's Flatboat Fight — Limestone Landing 1791
• Indian Fort Mountain Madison County · 39 BCE – 236 CE
• Indian Knoll 3000 BCE – 1000 BCE
• Inner Bluegrass phosphatic limestone & horse country Fayette County · 1780 – 1820
• Isaac Shelby Lincoln County · 1780 – 1792
• Jacob Beam / Hardin's Creek 1795
• Jacob Spears Bourbon County · 1790
• James C. Crow / Oscar Pepper Woodford County · 1837
• James Knox / Camp Knox (Skinhouse Branch) 1770 – 1771
• Jenny Wiley / Big Sandy 1789 – 1800
• Jeptha’s Knob marker, Clay Village (KHS #161) Shelby County · 1887 – 1925
• John Bradford’s Fairfield, KHS marker #1864 (Kentucky Gazette printer) Fayette County · 1787 – 1830
• John Filson Jefferson County · 1783 – 1788
• John Finley 1752 – 1769
• John Floyd / Floyd's Station Jefferson County · 1774 – 1783
• Kentucky Association race course site, E. Fifth & Race Sts., Lexington Fayette County · 1826 – 1933
• Kentucky River Palisades
• La Grange courthouse square and Main Street tracks Oldham County · 1827 – 1840
• Lancaster founding / Wallace’s Crossroads 1797
• Lawrenceburg founding / Kaufman’s–Coffman’s Station 1780 – 1827
• Lebanon / Hardin's Creek Meeting House 1789 – 1834
• Leestown Franklin County · 1773 – 1777
• Levi Todd / Ellerslie (Lexington co-founder) 1775 – 1807
• Lexington & Ohio Railroad Franklin County · 1830 – 1835
• Lexington Named Fayette County · 1782
• Liberty Hall, 218 Wilkinson St., Frankfort (John Brown house) Franklin County · 1796 – 1837
• Lost River Cave 1790 – 1800
• Louisville & Nashville Railroad (main line opens) Jefferson County · 1850 – 1859
• Louisville and Portland Canal (locks) Jefferson County · 1826 – 1830
• Lower Shawneetown Greenup County · 1600 – 1750
• M. Robison Sawmill (Irvine) 1908
• Maj. Joseph Bowman 1775 – 1779
• Maj. Silas Harlan / Harlan’s Station 1774 – 1782
• Mammoth Cave saltpeter (War of 1812) Edmonson County · Historic Entrance County · 1812 – 1815
• Mann’s Lick saltworks (approximate, north of Fairdale) Jefferson County · 1773 – 1830
• Mantle Rock, Trail of Tears campsite (KHS marker #1675) Livingston County · 1838 – 1839
• Mary Ingles at Big Bone Lick (1755 escape) 1755
• Maysville–Lexington Turnpike (US 68), Maysville Hill (KHS #144) Mason County · 1829 – 1835
• McAfee Station on the Salt River Mercer County · 1773 – 1785
• McGary's Station / Shawnee Springs 1779 – 1782
• McLean Drift Bank, old Paradise on the Green River (generalized) Muhlenberg County · 1820 – 1967
• Michael Stoner / Holsteiner 1774
• Mount Horeb Adena / Adena Park Fayette County · 500 BCE – 250 CE
• Mount Sterling Founding Montgomery County seat County · 1792
• Muir Site (15Js86) 1010 – 1255
• Natural Bridge 10000 BCE – 1000 BCE
• New Castle — Henry County seat (1798) 1798
• Newport at the Licking Mouth 1793 – 1803
• Newt Kash Hollow (15Mf1) 1000 BCE – 200 CE
• Nicholasville founding / Rev. John Metcalf 1798 1798
• Old Forester / Whiskey Row (Louisville) Jefferson County · 1870 – 1917
• Old Fort Earthworks (15Gp1), Portsmouth Earthworks Group A (generalized) Greenup County · 200 BCE – 500 CE
• Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Historic Site, Tompkinsville Monroe County · 1804 – 1856
• Owensboro / Yellow Banks 1797 – 1817
• Owingsville (Bath County seat) Bath County · 1795 – 1811
• Paducah — 1827 William Clark plat 1827 – 1832
• Paris Founding Bourbon County seat County · 1789 – 1790
• Peter Village enclosure (15Fa166) 500 BCE – 0
• Pilot Knob State Nature Preserve (Boone’s Overlook) Powell County · 1769
• Pound Gap, Pine Mountain (Kentucky side, near Jenkins) Letcher County · 1750 – 1864
• Prestonsburg founding / Preston’s Station Floyd County · 1797 – 1818
• Read Shell Midden (15Bt10) 3000 BCE – 1000 BCE
• Red Bird River Petroglyphs, original site near Eriline (15CY51) Clay County · 10000 BCE – 1000 BCE
• Red River Gorge Geological Area Menifee County · 1962 – 1993
• Remember the Raisin: Kentucky volunteers' muster, Georgetown (KHS #508) Scott County · 1812 – 1813
• Richard Henderson / Transylvania Henderson County · 1775
• Richmond Founding Madison County · 1798 – 1809
• Robbins Mounds (Boone County Adena) 150 BCE – 1 CE
• Rowlandton Mound Site (15McN3), Paducah McCracken County · 1100 – 1350
• Ruddell's Station 1779 – 1780
• Russellville (Logan Court House), Logan County courthouse square Logan County · 1790 – 1810
• Saltpeter Cave (Carter Caves) 1812 – 1815
• Salts Cave (15Ht4) 1000 BCE – 200 BCE
• Sassafras Ridge (15Fu3), Fulton County (approximate) Fulton County · 1000 – 1500
• Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Mercer County · 1805 – 1910
• Shelbyville Founding Shelby County seat County · 1792 – 1800
• Shepherdsville / Salt River falls 1793 – 1797
• Siege of Boonesborough (Sept 1778) Madison County · 1778 – 1779
• Simpsonville 1816
• Singer-Hieronymus Site Complex (15Sc3 / 15Sc225) 1200 – 1550
• Slack Farm (15Un28) Caborn-Welborn village 1400 – 1700
• Slone Site (15Pi11), Pike County Pike County · 1350 – 1400
• Somerset — Pulaski County seat (1801) 1801
• Springfield / Washington County seat 1792 – 1793
• Squire Boone / Painted Stone / Long Run Shelby & Jefferson counties County · 1780 – 1781
• Stanford / St. Asaph (Logan’s Fort) 1775 – 1786
• Stitzel Brothers Distillery remains, 25th & Maple, Louisville Jefferson County · 1879 – 1935
• Sweet Lick Knob Fort Ancient public building 1400 – 1450
• Tinsley Hill (15Ly18), under Lake Barkley (approximate) Lyon County · 1300 – 1450
• Tolu Site (15Cn1) 1200 – 1300
• Turk Site (15Ce6) 1100 – 1300
• Twin Mounds Site (15Ba2 / Nolan) 1200 – 1450
• Versailles founding / Hezekiah Briscoe 1792
• Walker Daniel marker, Danville (KHS #190) Boyle County · 1781 – 1787
• Ward Site (15McL11) Late Archaic 3000 BCE – 1000 BCE
• Warriors’ Path (Athiamiowee), KHS marker #697, Gray Hawk Jackson County · 1674 – 1769
• Washington, Mason County (Old Washington) Mason County · 1785 – 1786
• Wea (Waayaahtanwa) / Ouiatenon 1795 – 1818
• Wickliffe Mounds Ballard County · 1100 – 1350
• William Christian / Fort William 1786
• William Hoy’s Station (Madison County) Madison County · 1781 – 1782
• William Whitley / Sportsman's Hill Lincoln County · 1787 – 1794
• Winchester Founding 1792 – 1794
• Worthington's Fort (Edward Worthington) 1779 – 1781
• Wright Mounds (Montgomery County Adena) 1 – 250
• Yahoo Falls, Big South Fork (McCreary County) McCreary County · 1937 – 1987