Log House

John Haggin arrived in the wilderness of Kentucky when Harrodsburg and Boonesborough had few white inhabitants and many Indians, who used the grounds for hunting.  Haggin wanted to begin cultivating the fertile land in this region and purchase several tracts of land from the government that included a tract where Harrison, Bourbon and Fayette counties came together. He began removing trees, erected a small log house and brought to his new home some furniture and iron kettles for making sugar.

LIBERTY - A resident who recently built a log house within sight of Lake Liberty says an illegal dump on his property is a danger to the city's only water supply, but the city thinks differently. When Elhanan Pennington purchased a 40-acre tract on Ob Wilson Road in December 2001, the deed did not indicate the old landfill was on the property. He found out about the abandoned site from a neighbor after the deal was made. Pennington has asked City Council to do something about the landfill, apparently established before 1960, that he said covers more than 11 acres and is contaminating the city water supply.

In 1778, Chief Black Fish led an army of 400 Shawnee, Cherokee and Wyandot warriors, along with 40 Frenchmen and Canadians, down Lower Howard's Creek toward Fort Boonesborough. On Sunday, Sept. 6, they stopped for the night at a place afterwards called "the Indian Camp. " The next day, the army continued downstream to the mouth of the creek, where they crossed the Kentucky River at Black Fish Ford, and then proceeded to invest the fort in what became known as "the great siege of Boonesborough" (Sept.

Andy Mills thinks it's a good thing to save the North Third Street log cabin although it may not be the first house built on the site where Danville was first established. As work on the two-story log structure progresses, Mills, owner of American Antique Cabin Co., says the interest has been amazing. "We've had a lot of interest after the logs have been exposed," he said. "A man from Cincinnati said he'd never seen anything like this house. " The project of taking down and cataloguing the logs is in its final phase.

Rumors of all sorts about one of the Cocanougher clan of Washington County have been handed down through the years and are still talked about at family gatherings, according to information from Mike Crain, a descendant, who lives in Lexington. The story was, in 1856, George Washington “Big George” Cocanougher was involved in a murder in Lynchburg, near Gravel Switch in Marion County. Some say he was a heavy drinker of alcoholic beverages, and operated a distillery to make his own brew.

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday and there are several reasons for this. One is I like the idea that no gifts are expected and that takes care of the commercial dichotomy that Christmas presents for me. The second reason is that, for many years, we always drove to Fredricktown, Mo., to be with our great aunt Auntie. She lived alone in an old, old log house in the Ozark Mountains. Everything about the magic of Thanksgiving has always brought up every aroma, every board that squeaked on the floor, right down to the blaze in her back yard when we burned all her trash accumulated since our last visit to Auntie's house.

LANCASTER - The congregation of the early Traveling Church will celebrate its 225-year anniversary this week. Gilbert's Creek Baptist Church, the third oldest congregation in Kentucky, was organized in 1781 as the Traveling Church, then later was named for the creek near where it is located, according to Pastor Morris Trayner. The modern church sits off Crab Orchard Road, three miles south of Lancaster, near an old cemetery. It was organized by Lewis Craig, who came from Virginia to Kentucky after being arrested with "preaching contrary to the laws for the maintenance of the established Church of England.

STANFORD - The log walls are buried under years of plastic siding and out-dated wallpaper, but underneath the customary white vinyl lies a treasure on Main Street. Once home to the Harvey Helm Memorial Library, the abandoned house in the 300 block of Main is the target of a $485,000 grant for its restoration and preservation. Or rather, what has been entombed in the walls of the former library for so many years will now be rescued. The white building with black shutters was built around a 200-year old two-story log meeting house, once the home for some of Kentucky's first Presbyterians on the Wilderness Trail.

100 YEARS AGO - 1909 Two residents of Third Street asked that their property valuation be reduced because the street seems to have been abandoned by the city council. It was shown that property on Third Street is taxed on a higher proportion than property on Lexington and Maple avenues. Those two streets receive the full benefit of taxation and enjoy water works, sewerage system, electric lighting and street improvements. Third Street on the other hand, hasn't seen street improvements in 20 years, no sewage system and not enough electricity to mention.

  100 Years Ago — 1911 The news that the electric chair at Eddyville Penitentiary is ready for service is received with more equanimity by the general public than by Shay Pellman, the man who is confined in the Fayette County Jail awaiting execution for the criminal assault on the 10-year-old daughter of A.L. Rankin in Lincoln County several months ago. Pellman denies his guilt but was convicted several weeks ago and...