Identifier: collinshistoricav02coll (find matches)
Title: Collins' historical sketches of Kentucky : history of Kentucky
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870 Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889
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Publisher: Covington, KY : Published by Collins & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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r of Lord Cornwallis. He died in 1789, aged fifty years. NICHOLAS COUNTY. Nicholas county—the 42d in order of formation, and the lastbefore 1800—was formed in 1799, out of parts of Bourbon andMason, and named in honor of Col. Geo. .Nicholas. A portionof its territory was taken to form Robertson county in 18(37. Itis situated in the N. e. middle part of the state, and is boundedN. by Robertson and Fleming counties, E. by Fleming and Bath,S. by Bath and Bourbon, and w. by Bourbon and Harrison. TheLicking river flows through the county in a N. w. direction, andforms part of the N. E. boundary line; the other more importantstreams are Hinkson creek, which forms its southern boundary,Somerset, Cassidy, Beaver, Brushy Fork, and Flat creeks. Thatportion of the county which borders upon Bourbon and Bathcounties is gently undulating, and very rich and productive; theremainder of the county, with the exception of the valleys of the * Letter of Robert Wieklitfe, in Am. Pioneer, i, pp. 32-37.
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NICHOLAS COUNTY. 651 Licking and its tributaries, is broken oak lands. The soil isbased on limestone, with red clay foundation, The staple articlesof production and commerce are corn, wheat, rye, oats, tobacco,whiskey, cattle, hogs, and mules. Towns.—Carlisle, the county seat of Nicholas, is situated onthe Maysville and Lexington railroad, 33 miles s. W. of Mays-ville, 34 N. E. of Lexington, 16 N. E. of Paris, 58 from Frankfort,and 510 from Washington city ; contains a brick court house andclerks offices in a handsome public square, 4 churches, 1 bank,1 newspaper (the Mercury), 8 lawyers, 4 physicians, 3 taverns;5 dry goods, 2 drug, 2 stove and tin, 1 hardware, 1 furniture,and 3 millinery stores ; 5 groceries, 13 mechanics shops, and 3livery stables; was incorporated in 1816 ; population in 1870,606, and growing handsomely since the opening of the railroad.(Two terrible fires in 1873 scourged Carlisle: one, Jan. 5th,destroyed 15 buildings and stores, loss over $100,000, and theother

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