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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71, appropriated $55,000 for the purpose of finishing theapartments and fire-proof rooms for the offices of the state. A bill passedthe senate, March 6, 1872, appropriating $60,000 for completing all theunfinished apartments in the building known as the fire-proof offices; but itwas rejected in the house, April 10, 1873, by a decisive vote. Thus, afterthe expenditure of $155,000, the building is still incomplete as to the newsenate chamber, but is occupied by several of the public offices. * Gideon Shryock, in 1827, the draftsman and general superintendent of the presentcapitol, is still living in Louisville (Jan., 1874), aged 72 ; he furnished us the pen-sketch from which the engraving of the capitol burned in 1824 was made. Harrison Blanton, a resident of Frankfort since 1807, and still living (Jan., 1874),aged 8-, was one of the contractors for the brick work of the capitol burned in 1824,and for the stone work of the present capitol. From him we learned much that isembodied above.
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FRANKLIN COUNTY. 249 The Survey of the Land whereon Frankfort now stands was first made onFriday, July 16, 1773, by Hancock Taylor, a deputy or assistant of Col. Wm.Preston, then official surveyor of Fincastle county, Va.—which county thenincluded a large part of western (now West) Virginia, together with all ofthe country now known as the state of Kentucky, Two, if not all, of Taylorsregular surveying party were Matthew Bracken (after whom Bracken creekwas named, and from it Bracken county), and Jacob Drennon (who gavename to Drennon creek in Henry county). Two surveys were made—em-bracing together 600 acres, and including most of the bottom on which Frank-fort is built—for Robert McAfee, one of the McAfee company of five (seeunder Mercer county) with whom Taylors party had met, on May 28th, pre-ceding, on the Kanawha river, and had since been traveling, exploring, andsurveying with. Why these two surveys were never officially made out and recorded doesnot appear; but the omiss

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