Carroll County was the 87th county formed in Kentucky.  The law enacting Carroll County was passed on  February 9, 1838, and the county was formed on March 1, 1838 from parts of  Gallatin, Henry and Trimble Counties. Its boundaries are unchanged since February 5, 1872. It has an area of 130 square miles, making it the 118th largest of Kentucky's 120 counties. A thought about the formation of Carroll.

The law that established Gallatin County in 1798, which at that time included what is now Carroll County, is here.

Discover the highest point in the county.

Chicago's Newberry Library has posted online a complete set of maps of American counties formations. They start with the date of county formation, and trace every little change to the boundaries after that. Carroll has had only 1 such changes, and you can see the Carroll maps here (pdf). To see the counties from which the county was formed, you'll have to download the entire Kentucky state pdf. There's also a feature that you can use to import all this data into Google maps. Good stuff!

Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, the man for whom Carrollton and Carroll County are named, and, the only Roman Catholic signer of  the Declaration of Independence. You can read more about him at this site.	Maryland Home of Charles Carroll Doughoregan

Here's a curious collection of documents from the 1860-1940's, from the post office, with town names, maps, and name changes. You really should start here, and they might make more sense to you. All are pdf's.
Bramlette	Carrollton	Eagle Station	Easterday	English
Ghent	Jackson Springs	Locust	Prestonville	Sanders
Sandifers Store	Tandy	Worthville

Can you name the nineteen town names in Carroll County that have had US post offices? That list is here.

Robert Rennick wrote this piece on Carroll Country post offices and the origins of their names fro the WPA.

This list of Carroll County deaths from WWII is from the National Archives. There's a key to
what the various abbreviations mean here, and the actual list is here.

The list from WWI is here.

From George W. Hawes’ Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory,
for 1859 and 1860, comes this listing (pdf) for Carrollton.

In 1876, the R. L. Polk Company published The Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, which listed information about virtually every town in Kentucky.  The listings from Carroll County are these:
Bramlette	Carrollton	Eagle Station
Ghent	Locust	Prestonville
Sanders	Sandiferestore	Worthville

Who's who in Carroll County in 1840, here.

“Mr. Lawrence. Now in Carrollton. Was in Bryant's Station (Wikipedia) when it was surrounded by Indians.”
Draper Papers, 15CC43

An earlier 1861 gazetteer has this listing for Carrollton.

An updated Hawes gazetteer from 1883-84 lists these Carroll communities:
Carrollton	Eagle Station	English

Ghent

Liberty Station

Locust

Worthville

The 1878 Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky had these  entries for folks with a Carroll County connection (all are pdf's)
Gen. Percival Butler	Gen. Wm. O. Butler	Richard Parker Butler
Thomas Langford Butler	Henry Giltner	L. W. Taylor
Lewis Sanders	Sam S. Scott	W. B. Winslow

An 1890 directory lists these Masonic Lodge members in Carroll County:
Carrollton	Ghent

Membership lists of the Masonic Lodges in Carroll County, from 1911:  (pdf's)
Worthville	Carrollton	English	Ghent

For membership rolls of ALL Masonic Lodges in ALL cities in Kentucky,
from 1878 thru 1922, they're at the Hathi Trust Digital Library, by individual year.

There are a total of thirteen Carroll Counties in the USA.  Here's a list of the other 12.
Carroll County, Arkansas	Carroll County, Georgia	Carroll County, Illinois
Carroll County, Indiana	Carroll County, Iowa	Carroll County, Maryland
Carroll County, Mississippi	Carroll County, Missouri	Carroll County, New Hampshire
Carroll County, Ohio	Carroll County, Tennessee	Carroll County, Virginia

October, 1967, and I-71 is ready to open to Walton. (...and the Courier didn't know where English is)

 

At one time, these high schools existed.

Consolidation and integration come to Carroll County Schools

“Carrollton has 195 males and 173 females, total 368; Prestonville reports 40 males and 51 females; total 91. Ghent, 81 males and 103 females, total 194.” Courier-Journal, May 16, 1870		“Destructive conflagrations have also occurred at . . . Carrollton, Ky., $100,000.” from a list of fires in the Los Angeles Star, August 24,1854
Items from Collins' History of Kentucky on Carroll County are here. Collins' History of Carroll County (pdf).	The African-American newspaper The Freeman offers these notes from 1911 Carrollton and these from 1893.	General Winfield Scott (Wikipedia), on a riverboat from Madison to  Cincinnati gets fogged in at Carrollton in 1852.  The story is at here, and a shorter version of his Carrollton speech is here.
A site dedicated to the bridges of Carroll County is here.	A letter in the Cincinnati Times in 1875 describes Carrollton, here.	An excerpt from Collins' History of Kentucky on prehistoric Carroll County formations is here.
“The Indiana Liquor Law has caused a brisk business to spring up at several points in Kentucky along the Ohio River.  The owner of the ferry at Milton is reaping a fortune, and several citizens of Madison talk of erecting taverns in Milton.  At Ghent, the jug business is carried on extensively; the horse ferry boat will soon give place to steam - as our Hoosier neighbors, to get steam will put on steam.  At Carrollton, the jug traffic is improving, but after all, it may only prove to be an increased appetite for molasses.” - Carroll County Times, July 7, 1855
A List of the first automobiles and their owners in Carroll County is here.	Timetable for the L&N, 1879, here, listing Liberty (Sanders), Eagle, Worthville & Carrollton.	The biggest crowd to ever assemble in Carrollton? Find out all about it here.
It’s 1877, and the Carroll County Sheriff is on trial for murder.  Stories here, and here and here.	Owen County Sheriff in shootout in Carrollton, here.	Then again, maybe this was the biggest  crowd ever.
Devastating tornadoes and heavy rains hit Carroll County on July 7, 1915.  Read about them here and just across the river in Vevay, here. See the details of all the Northern Kentucky damage here.	The Freeman, “An Illustrated Colored Newspaper,” was published in Indianapolis.  Two items from it about Carrollton are here and here.	A Carroll County man that had four wives, 42 children, and a hat he's been wearing for 22 years. His story is here.
In 1906, the Courier-Journal published a list of out-of-state residents who would come home to Carroll County.	The Carroll County Chamber of Commerce published this history of the county.(pdf)	The latest news, 1859.
Mary Ann Gentry compiled some of the more interesting items (pdf) from the 1878 Carrollton Democrat. She's also written Old Port William (pdf).	The Carrollton Democrat was not a fan of the 15th Amendment (Wikipedia).	A History of Gallatin County, before Carroll County existed.
A visitor in 1880 describes Ghent and Carrollton.	A very early resident of Carroll County recalls early times.	A pair of voting precincts established in 1834, when Carroll was still part of Gallatin. One at Bethlehem Meeting House, and one at the Tavern House Ghent.
A report of progress on the Port William Methodist Episcopal circuit, 1834.	Details of a fox hunt, from Milton to Carrollton.	Indiana cyclists come thru Carroll County, in 1887
In 1896, 13-year-old Sarah Eva Howe of Carrollton, Kentucky, imagined fanciful things and told captivating stories. She was a dreamer, a writer, a consummate story teller, and a keeper of family and community history. Sarah, and later her daughter Mary Alice Salyers Hays, bound the family’s memorabilia into 72 scrapbooks. There is a blog, 72 Scrapbooks - created in an attempt to preserve and share highlights from those treasured volumes. We found some of it boring, but some of it fascinating. Browse thru it - you'll find something you like.
One of Ghent's more famous citizens is James Tandy Ellis. Learn more about him at this site.	Lists of people in Carroll County Cemeteries are at this site,  and this site.	The Carroll County Roots Web site is here.
The Cincinnati Commercial reported, on January 30, 1869, there were 8 doctors practicing in Carroll County.
In 1969, Edna Talbott Whitley compiled a list of Cabinetmakers in Kentucky.  The Carroll County portion of that list is here.	You can get a glimpse of grass roots politics, in 1879 Carroll County, here.	In 1930, Kentucky Progress Magazine ran a feature letting each of Kentucky's counties list their accomplishments for 1929.  What Carroll County came up with is here. (pdf)
The Steamer Redstone blows up between Carrollton and Ghent April 3, 1852.  The story is here and here. This site has another five  - ! - news article that covered the disaster.	Among those on the Redstone,(story at the left) was a bridal party which boarded at Madison. In the aftermath of the explosion, "the arm and hand of the young bride was all that was ever found of the body, and that was identified by the initials on the wedding ring that encircled her clammy fingers, and from which cruel death had failed to separate her."
“’Who Was the First Man the ever settled in Carroll county?’ asked we, the other day, of Judge Cox, who knows as much of the county’s history s any other man.  He replied: ‘There is a tradition in my family that a man named McCool, who settled at the mouth of McCool’s creek, was the first settler, and Green Owens says he received the same fact from his ancestors.’  This is no doubt true.” The Carrollton Democrat, April 5, 1884.
Larkin Sanders has legal issues in 1886, here.	You can read the proposal to build the Covington, Big Bone and Carrollton Railroad - going through Ghent - here.	In 1880, a visitor describes Ghent and Carrollton, here.  (pdf)
“The Carrollton Station Stage is doing a thriving business, so is the Worthville Stage, and they are well conducted.  Travel from here to the cities is now almost entirely by the Short Line R. R.   The river is so low that there is almost no telling at what time the Mail-boats will be along.  For instance, the Ben Franklin left Cincinnati late Saturday evening and did not reach here until Monday morning.”  from an unnamed newspaper, October, 1872
Buried treasure found in 1869 in Carroll County, here	“Bond's dog, the champion fox hound of Carroll county, having won the champion silver collar, the whole state is challenged, through the Carrollton Times, to contest his right to wear it. The test to be on ground in Carroll county selected by a committee.” Daily Courier, March 8, 1868
Carroll County sites placed on the National Places of Historical Places are at this site.
A status report from the Superintendent of Schools in Carroll County from 1900 is here. The 1907 report is here.	“Arrangements are in progress and it is confidently expected that not exceeding five miles of the Ghent Turnpike in Carroll County, Kentucky, precisely opposite Vevay, Indiana, will be let on the same day, and under similar circumstances as the Vevay Turnpike. This road also is to be graded, bridged, and M’Adamized.”  Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, April 11, 1850
The start of the Carrollton County Republican is documented here.	“In 1815 James McIntire laid out the town of Erin, opposite Carrollton, Ky., but was unsuccessful in his attempts to attract population at that point.“  from An Illustrated History of the state of Indiana,“ by DeWitt Goodrich, 1875.	The story of the folks going to the penitentiary from Carroll County in 1896 is here.
The Kefauver Report (pdf), from the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce had an appendix that listed gambling spots in found in Northern Kentucky. The Carroll County places listed are at the right.
In 1914, the Louisville Auto Club offered helpful routes to get to Cincinnati via Carrollton (and Indiana), and to Carrollton.	Carrollton Democrat says forget your politics, let's get some good roads.	Legislature permits a steam mill for Carrollton in 1818, when Carrollton was still a part of Gallatin County.
The Sharon Baptist Church was organized on March 19, 1825. We assume on Sharon Road. The first entry in their minute book, available in its entirety on microfilm at the library in Covington, Ky., is here (pdf). The second entry is the “Rules of Decorum” they established, here (pdf).
Environmental Report on the Ghent power plant, here.	Detailed Presidential voting statistics from Carroll County are here.	Buried Treasure upstream from Carrollton? Read more.  A companion piece, here.
Indianapolis News, February 3, 1882	Chicago Packer, March 10, 1917	Chicago Packer, March 10, 1917
C. 1928, the Kentucky Opportunities Department published a fact sheet about Carroll County for potential businesses that might be interested.  You can read it here.  (pdf)	The Interstate Commerce Commission moved part of Carroll County and Trimble County from the Central to the Eastern time zone at 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 23, 1961.	Warsaw's Dr. E. C. Threlkeld wrote a piece detailing Daniel Boone's travels through Gallatin County, from when Carroll was part of Gallatin.  You can read it here.
The WPA compiled a list in 1942 of social organizations in Carroll. Their Guide to Civilian Organizations lists groups, and officers, but not members. It's 22 pages long, and the whole thing is online at UK.
Prominent Citizens of Carroll County, 1847, here.	Carrollton's treasurer's report, from 1890, is here.	A List of the Carroll County Historical Markers is at this site.
In 1835, Marie Barbe François Lakanal and her family settled in Carroll County (then Gallatin County). She notes her address as about three miles above Vevay, on the left. Anyway, she wrote a letter (pdf) back to her family in Europe, giving them detailed instructions on how to join her in America.

Anna V. Parker's A Short History of Carroll County (pdf).
from the Register of the the Kentucky Historical Society, January, 1959

	Myrtle Garvey wrote these several pieces of Carroll County History for the WPA in the late 1930's. They're all pdf's:
	County History	General Carroll Co.	Historical Sketch	Prestonville
	Early Settlement	Points of Interest	Rural Carroll	Worthville

Kathryn Salyers From a Facebook post by Barbara Godman
Kathryn Salyers writes on the Early History of Port William (pdf).

 

“In 1870, there were a total of 2,515 horses in Carroll County.” from the Carrollton News-Democrat, October 12, 1867	In 1919, there was a farm census, counting livestock, crops and farms.  Carroll County's is here.
“G. W. Anderson, of Carrollton, is shipping hickory nuts to Washington City, as if Congress have not already got enough tough nuts to crack.” Courier-Journal, December 11, 1876
“Carrollton is shipping pawpaws to the Cincinnati market.” Courier-Journal, September 12, 1876	The Kentucky Department of Agriculture's assessment of agriculture in Carroll County, in 1898-1899 can be found here. (pdf)

Carrollton's Ann Gillock, Miss Kentucky, 1955

Well, there was this Baptist preacher, George Bayard Waller, who got a girl pregnant, and fled to South Carolina.

A trial ensued, and a book was written:

Alas, we've been unable to locate a copy of the book.

Adam Crosswhite. He and his wife, Sarah, an enslaved couple from Carroll County, escaped to Michigan, where slave catchers attempted to return them. Henry Bibb's account of the trial, here, and an eyewitness account is here. Yet another nice account of the incident is a pdf here.

 

Wheeling (or Whelan) Gaunt, born into slavery in Carrollton in 1812, bought his freedom, and moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he became wealthy buying and selling real estate. In his will, he left 9 acres, the income off of which was to buy the widows of Yellow Springs 25 pounds of flour each Christmas.  That was in 1894.  To this day, every Christmas, they still distribute flour. Follow the links on this page to learn a lot more about both Gaunt, and his tradition. The plaque shown is from the Yellow Springs Park.
There's wonderful article by Steve Flairty about Wheeling Gaunt at this site.
A news item about Gaunt, printed during his lifetime.

 

Frankfort's Tri-Weekly Kentucky Yeoman, May 16, 1854

 

Western Spy, August 29, 1807

 

The Boone County Library has a web site detailing known escapes of enslaved people from Northern Kentucky. The Trimble-Carroll-Owen only list is here.
A receipt for a slave sale in Carrollton is here.	Carrollton slave chaser backed down, here.
Lots of slave catchers in Vevay; success, however, is elusive.	A slave catcher, “a gentleman from Carroll county,” gets the run-a-round in Indiana.
Three short notices on Underground Railroad activity in Carroll Co., here.	Edmund Prince & the Underground Railroad, 1855,  here.
Notices like this are common in post-Civil War African-American newspapers.	His “forged” papers detected, enslaved man escapes anyway. Here.
Carroll County's Mary Stewart was not told slaves had been freed. Until 1902.	Freman Anderson, a Hanover, Indiana resident, recalls the days of his activities in the Underground Railroad in Trimble and Carroll. Read his remembrance here.
Mr. Darg loses his enslaved people, here.
“In the Carroll, Ky., Circuit Court, Van Tuyl, who kidnapped the free negroes in Ohio, one of which he sold to a gentleman of Carroll county, had his trial for the swindling transactions.  The prosecution failed to sustain the charges, it being decided that the false pretenses were made in Ohio, although the money paid for negro was received by him in Kentucky.  He was remanded to jail, however, to await a requisition from Ohio, where he will answer for his scoundrelism.” from Vevay's Indiana Reveille, March 31, 1858 More here.
In Carrollton, former slave Alexander Foley found his wife, who had been sold down the river forty years earlier.  The story is here.	In the late 1930's the WPA Writers Project interviewed a number  of people who ha been enslaved.  Peter Neal was from Carroll County, and his account is here. (pdf)
Attempted slave escape, 1862.	Van Tuyl, kidnapper.
“We learn that a free Negro has been preying in about Carrollton, mouth of the Kentucky River, undertook a day or two since to run off a couple of slaves.  He started with them in a skiff, and took his course down stream, when he was overhauled by parties in pursuit, and the slaves recaptured, but the free fellow escaped.” from the Louisville Daily Courier, August 24, 1854	“More Runaways.  The Carrollton Times says: Five more negroes availed themselves of the under-ground railroad facilities for reaching Canada, a few days since.  They were from Shelby county, and crossed the river about Locust.”  from the Louisville Daily Courier, June 5, 1855

Vevay's Weekly Reveille, August 25, 1853

 

“At Carrollton, in Carroll County, some fifty miles northeast of Louisville on the Ohio River, considerable furor was aroused over the alleged plots engineered by The Reverend William Anderson, a colored Methodist preacher, who was also accused of aiding fugitive slaves to escape to the North.  After a reward of six hundred dollars had been offered for his apprehension , he was captured with documents in his possession implicating 'several distinguished Northerners.'  His examination, however, proved disappointingly innocuous and he was discharged.“  from Winston Coleman's Slavery Days in Kentucky, 1940
“Negro Troubles in Kentucky - Louisville, Dec. 19- the Negro preacher Anderson was examined to-day, at Carrollton, but nothing was proved against him. He is still held on charges from Henry and Trimble counties.” The National Era, December 25, 1856
More details on Anderson's capture can be found here.	Yet a third story on Anderson is here.

The National Register of Historical Places lists these applications. Each is a pdf, and most contain, detailed descriptions maps, and pictures.
Carrollton Historic District	Ghent Historic District	Hunters Bottom Historic District

Two early “western” travelers visit Carrollton:

F. Cuming in 1807

John Woods in 1820

Larry Mahoney and the Carrollton Bus Crash, at this site. (Wikipedia)

 

26th District Basketball Tournament Program, 1933

Was there a woman spy in the Civil War from Carrollton? This says yes.	Citizens of Trimble County, Carroll County, and Madison, Indiana meet in April of 1861 to avoid Civil War Hostilities.  Read the story here, and follow-up stories here.
“It is reported that a rebel force of from four to five hundred were in Carroll county last night, with the view of crossing to Vevay, Indiana.” Daily Alta California, July 29, 1864
Rebels occupy Carrollton, “a strong secession town,” in 1862.	Carroll passes the bounty fund.
“Colonel G. W. Berry, Provost Marshall of this district [for the Union], received information yesterday that one of the enrolling officers for Carroll County was unable to make further progress in the discharge of his duties on account of armed resistance of the citizens.  A detachment of soldiers was sent to his aid at once.  We also learn that there is some trouble in Trimble County, threats of personal violence having repeatedly been made against the enrolling officers. The Cincinnati Enquirer,  June 25, 1863	Being with the Provost Marshalls' was a dangerous job in the Civil War. Witness the item to the left, below, and this.
Union troops shut down a pro-Confederate newspapers in Carrollton in 1862, here.	Horrible atrocities by rebel guerrillas, here.
“At 2 places between Carrollton and Madison, the Confederate flag is displayed to every passing steamer, particularly those descending the Ohio loaded with troops.  These rebel ensigns are unfurled and vaunted to the breeze by females who flatter themselves that their sex will protect them.”  Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, February 23, 1862

 

Carroll County's Lt. Col. Moses Tandy Pryor, C.S.A.

During the Civil War, in many parts of the country, the population was generally more afraid of the home guard than the opposing army. The “home guards” were usually gangs of men more interesting in theft than defense. One of the more notorious in the Carroll County area was Capt. George M Jessee, about whom you'll find a lot about on our Civil War page.

“Among Carrolltonians, It Is the Fad, the Fashion, the Rage - It's everywhere.” “It” was bicycles, in 1898.  The story is here.	Ghent's H. M. Froman wrote this piece on Carroll County in 1907.
W. W. Masterson obituary.	An extraordinary storm hits Carrollton in 1860.
1860 Tornado does serious damage in Carroll. More here.	Curious relic found in 1883, here.
Kentucky gubernatorial candidate William Goebels (Wikipedia) speaks to thousands in Carrollton.
“The first marriage in Carroll county took place March 29, 1837.  The parties were John Neley and Nancy Adams, daughter of John McWilliams.  The ceremony was by Rev. George Kendall.” Carrollton Democrat, July 2, 1898	A 1904 meeting of the Eagle Valley Medical Society is described here.
The WPA writers created a picture of Carroll County from c. 1937. You can read it here (pdf).	Port Williams' David Wilson, 1728-1830. But the first article leaves out some details.
A preacher on a temperance mission in 1833 passes from Boone County, through Gallatin and ends up in Ghent and Port William. He's generally appalled by the drunkenness he encounters.	“A debating society in Carroll county, Kentucky, is discussing the question, ‘Whether General [Andrew] Jackson was a greater man that Jesus Christ.’ Most people in Kentucky regard this question as already settled. You can never convince them that Jackson had any failings.” Daily Alta California, December 22, 1875
The Geological Survey of Kentucky did a geological analysis of Carroll County in 1856.  Read it here.  (pdf)	A description of Port William from 1817 is here.  He wasn't impressed.
“The Carrollton Courier is the name of a paper recently started in Carrollton, Ky., edited and published by T. D. Wright, Esq.  The number before us looks well, and its editorials convince us the Editor is not a novice in the business.”  from Vevay's Ohio Valley Gazette, September 11, 1851	“The News, published at Ghent, Ky., is one of the few papers of the South which has a woman for an editor.  Miss Angie Rice, a beautiful and accomplished girl, presides over the editorial columns  of the News with much ability.”  The Hartford (Ky.) Hartford Herald, January 11, 1905
In 1890, the Carrollton Democrat reprinted its credentials from  the very first issue of the paper, some “23 years ago.”  Read it here.	My Grandfather told me that the road between Milton and Carrollton contained the longest stretch of continuously curved road in the state of Kentucky. That is, therefore, true.
Advocating for a telegraph in 1860, here.	Cholera (Wikipedia) hits Carroll County in 1873, here.
“Norwin Perry, hustling editor of the News-Democrat of Carrollton, Ky., spent a few minutes in Warsaw last Saturday with friends.  After Norwin got through telling us of the good qualities of the citizens of Carrollton and Carroll county, he had us believing all the bad folks who had ever lived in that good county had died, moved away, were in jail, the penitentiary, or in the Kentucky Legislature. Now we, as a rule, have always believed everything Mr. Perry tells us, but Oscar Vest told us some time ago, that Perry Minor told him that Ed Seppenfield told him that George Lee said it was rumored by Emmett Orr that there was on some occasions, when Mr. Perry resided in Owen county, that his word for truth and veracity has been questioned.”  Gallatin County News, April 7, 1934
“An organ grinder accompanied by a little girl was I town for a few days this week.  A beggar woman was also here.”   “There were two gentlemen here last week, and a portion of this, with small photograph car, run by hand, taking pictures of stores and private houses.  They made a great many pictures many of which are quit good and took in a considerable pile of money.”   Both from the Carrollton Democrat, October 22, 1881	”Carrollton, Ky., May 24. - Two and one-half inches of rain fell here Thursday night and it is still raining.  Great damage has been done to the farms by washouts.  One of the largest bridges between this city and Worthville has been washed entirely away. Travel is almost stopped.  The Baptist church at Sanders, Ky., was struck by lightening and entirely destroyed.  Loss, $1,500.” from the Hickman (Ky.) Courier, May 30, 1902
“The G.M.C. Oil and Gas Company brought in their fourth gas well Saturday. 2,000 feet from their No.3 well at a depth of 800 feet.  This well is located in Carroll County on the Aggie Owens farm and shows 1,500,000 cubic feet.”  from the Maysville Daily Independent, July 6, 1931

from Trow's Legal Directory of Lawyers in the United States, 1875

Lawyers of Carroll County, 1872, here.

“Carrollton, Ky., Dec. 19 - The Fiscal Court this evening bought the three remaining toll turnpikes in this county, a total of twenty-four miles at the price of $21,000.  The gates will be thrown open tomorrow.” from the Earlington, Ky. Bee, December 22, 1898

“Ghent, Ky., Feb. 13 - The first tollgate raid in the history of Carroll county occurred one-half mile above this place on the Ghent and Warsaw turnpike. All of the other pikes in this vicinity had been freed of tollgates.  Many of the persons going through the gates refused to pay the toll.  There is no clew [sic] to the identity of the persons who committed the act.  The gatekeeper made no show of resistance and was not harmed.” from Maysville's Daily Public Ledger, February 13, 1899

“A story of a man that had a nose so large the he couldn't blow it without the use of gunpowder is said to be a hoax.“  Carrollton's Daily Democrat, October 11, 1870
The Ohio Democrat, June 25, 1892	The Iola (KS), December 24, 1880
The Washington (DC) Times, May 6, 1894	The Colorado Daily Chieftan, September 9, 1880

A Bicentennial overview of Carroll County

 

Driving Tour of Carroll County

Historical Markers of Carroll County

Louise Wilson Howe was a published poet from Carrollton.  from the left, above, we have her picture and a bio, Christmas Greetings from Carrollton, and Autumn in Carrollton, Kentucky.