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I would ask that you pause for a moment to consider how
old 1804 really is. In 1804:
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In the summer of 1805, Shawnee's attacked settlers on Bullock Pen Creek,
near the old Lebanon Presbyterian Church in Grant County. Indians
were still a concern. |
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Not only do railroads not reach Gallatin County, the first steam
locomotive isn't invented until 1804 in England. Nobody in
America knows what a railroad is. Ocean going ships are all powered by
sails. It's three more years before Fulton steams up the Hudson
River. |
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Thomas Jefferson is just sending out Lewis and Clark, and Abraham Lincoln
is not yet born. |
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Darwinism is not yet controversial, because Darwin is not yet born.
Neither is Karl Marx, or Chopin, or Dickens, or Poe, or Mark Twain. |
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The 1800 Census listed these Kentucky city populations: Louisville, 359, Frankfort, 628, Washington, 570, Paris, 377 |
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Indiana won't be a state for 12 more years. |
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England has not yet abolished slavery. |
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It will be 8 more years until Frances Scott Key writes the words to the
Star Spangled Banner. |
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Boone, Grant, Owen, Trimble, Carroll, and Kenton Counties have yet to be
formed. |
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Spain still owns Florida. |
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The removal of the Cherokee Nation from Kentucky and Tennessee, the
infamous Trail of Tears, won't begin until 1838. |
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Daniel Boone will live for another 16 years. He dies in Missouri in
1820. |
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And on Napoleon Ridge, Gallatin County, Kentucky, eight brave families
get
together to form a church called Ten Mile.
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