When was ky settled

To locate a center near you, click here. A Bibliography of Kentucky History. A New History of Kentucky. History of Kentucky 5 vols. Chicago, Illinois: American Historical Society, Guide to the Draper Manuscripts. Index to Lyman C. Draper Manuscripts. Logansport, Indiana: B. Wolfe, —?. The Almanac of American History. Greenwich, Conn. Springfield, Mass. He captured Vincennes and other British strongholds in the Old Northwest.

His patrols along the Ohio River, with men on horseback and in boats, help protect Kentucky settlements from British and Indian attacks. But nothing could protect Kentucky completely, as the last bloody episode of the war in Kentucky showed. In a force of about Indians and Canadians loyal to Britain slipped into Kentucky. They attacked the fort at Bryan's Station, near Lexington.

Unable to capture the fort, they headed back north. A pursuing force of Kentuckians walked into their ambush at Blue Licks. In this battle about 66 Kentucky militiamen were killed. The battle had no influence on the outcome of the war, which ended in with independence for the former British colonies.

That first generation of Kentuckians built a reputation for Kentuckians as natural fighters. The long, deadly-accurate rifles carried by these men later came to be known as "Kentucky Rifles," partly because of the exploits of Kentucky militiamen. Later generals of Kentuckians tried to live up to this combative image- not always with success. Neither the end of the Revolution nor the achievement of Kentucky statehood separate from Virginia in brought lasting peace to Kentucky.

Kansas, situated on the American Great Plains, became the 34th state on January 29, Its path to statehood was long and bloody: After the Kansas-Nebraska Act of opened the two territories to settlement and allowed the new settlers to determine whether the states would Maine, the largest of the six New England states, lies at the northeastern corner of the country.

Maine became the 23rd state on March 15, , as part of the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Maine is Iowa was admitted to the union as the 29th state on Dec. As a Midwestern state, Iowa forms a bridge between the forests of the east and the grasslands of the high prairie plains to the west.

Its gently rolling landscape rises slowly as it extends westward from the The largest of the U. Pound Gap, in what would become Letcher County, proved to be an active avenue for settlers coming into the state from Virginia. While most early pioneers moved on to better lands, some made the mountain region their permanent home. New arrivals had to settle for less fruitful hill and ridge top land where planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops was much more difficult.

Between and , small towns began to emerge in many of these mountain valleys. New settlers looking to make money opened businesses like general stores or offered manual services including blacksmithing or professional services medical or legal.

In Letcher County, towns like Mayking and Whitesburg offered goods and services to area citizens that could not be found elsewhere.