The Jessamine County Historical Society will host its ninth annual History Fest on June 25 through 27, celebrating 40 years of activity in Jessamine County.
The JCHS started the History Fest tradition, an event designed to attract previous residents of Jessamine County or people whose ancestors lived in Jessamine County into town to celebrate and swap stories, in 2001, said Ernestine Hamm, member of the historical society.
"They (members of the historical society) had been corresponding on the computer and realized they had a lot of family connection with people from out of state, so they devised this history fest to bring everyone together," she said.
In the past 40 years, the group, comprised of about 75 members, has participated in several historic landmark restoration projects and actively works with the local cemeteries to find graves of unknown Revolutionary War soldiers and make grave markers for them.
