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| February 1, 1816 |
Company in Gallatin county incorporated to build steamboats
and steam mill. |
| July 16, 1837 |
Gov. Morehead, at the request of President Jackson and of
Maj. General Edmund P Gaines, issues his proclamation calling
for 1,000 mounted Kentuckians, to rendezvous in Frankfort Aug.
17 to proceed to Camp Sabine, and protect the southwestern
frontier. Before August 3, 45 companies tender their
services, but only 10 are accepted, one each from Franklin,
Henry, Shelby, Madison, Harrison, Oldham, Gallatin, Woodford,
Jefferson, and Fayette counties. |
| Sept. 3, 1845 |
Several of a gang of counterfeiters, arrested at
Warsaw, and committed to jail. |
| May 26, 1846 |
The 1st regiment of cavalry, Col. Humphrey Marshall, of
Louisville. Lieut. Col. Ezekiel H. Filed of Woodford county,
Maj. John P. Gaines, of Boone county, embraces the following
companies: 8th Gallatin co., Captain J. S. Lillard
[and 9 other counties across the state] |
| April 22, 1850 |
Burning of the steamboat Belle of the West, in the Ohio
river, below Warsaw, Ky. 36 lives lost. |
| April 9, 1858 |
From the following 21 companies, Gov. Morehead selects by
lot 10 to compose the regiment to be tendered to the U.S. War
department for service in Utah. [A Gallatin County company
under Capt. Landrum is 14th, and was thus not selected.] |
| October 26, 1861 |
Skirmish in Gallatin county, about 8 miles from Warsaw. |
| Feb. 5, 1862 |
[Indiana Senator
Jesse D. Bright, expelled from the Senate for acknowledging
Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy, has all of his
property confiscated by the Union.] Mr. Bright removed, not long
after to Carrollton, Ky.; and represented Carroll and Gallatin
counties in the Ky. legislature from 1867 to 1871, when he
declined a re-election. He is now (1874) a citizen of Covington. |
| July 28, 1864 |
Under General Sherman's instructions to General Burbridge,
and partly upon Gen. Carrington's information to Gov. O. P.
Morton, of Indiana," Gen. Burbridge orders the arrest of
citizens, many of them leading and prominent, in many counties,
among them the following: . . . Gallatin Co. - Dr. A. B.
Chambers, Garrett Furnish. |
| Sept. 1, 1865 |
Col. Geo. M. Jessee and his Confederates have almost
complete control of Owen, Henry, Carroll and Gallatin counties,
and are recruiting rapidly. |
| March 6, 1865 |
Mason, Boone, Nicholas, Campbell, Greenup, Gallatin,
Bracken, Grant, Kenton, Butler, Carroll, Livingston, Lyon,
Caldwell, Fleming, Oldham and Jefferson counties, and the city
of Louisville, each authorized by special legislation to raise a
bounty fund to aid enlistments and provide substitutes. |
| Sept. 20, 1866 |
The grand jury of Gallatin co. having found an indictment
for murder against C. W. Ferris, U. S. mail agent on the steamer
Gen. Buell, he is forcibly seized, when the boat lands at
Warsaw, by 200 citizens who board the boat for the purpose, and
is sent by the sheriff to the U.S. authorities to Louisville -
the circuit court having transferred his case to the U.S.
district court fir trial. He had been provost marshal at
Warsaw, during the war, and was said to be instrumental in the
execution of two guerillas by
Gen. Burbridge. |
| Dec. 4, 1869 |
Collision, at 11 P.M., one mile above Warsaw, Gallatin co.,
between the magnificent Louisville and Cincinnati mail line
steamers, United States and America; both boats took fire from
the bursting of barrels of coal oil and whiskey, and burned to
the waters edge; - people burned to death or drowned; values of
the boats and freight destroyed about $250,000. |
| March 9, 1872 |
For the protection of sheep in the counties of Nicholas,
Gallatin, and Fleming, all dogs therein taxed $1 for the first
on each place, and $5 for each additional one - the proceeds to
be applied to build schoolhouses or pay teachers. |
| April 9, 1872 |
Greatest flood in the upper Kentucky river since 1817; river
rose 15 feet in 6 hours; over 20,000 saw logs, the property of
poor people, floated off and lost. . . . Eagle Creek, in Grant,
Owen, Carroll and Gallatin counties was 4 feet higher than ever
known; great damage done. |
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