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Jack Jouett's ride was perhaps more important than Revere's.

Garret A. Morgan has saved thousands on battlefields and highways.

Robert Anderson and the coming of the Civil War

Casey Jones is now a forgotten hero.  His action saved the lives of many, but took his own.

Long before D.L. Cooper, was Kentucky State Treasurer "Honest" Dick Tate.

Bennett H. Young, a Nicholasville native, was the master mind behind the famous raid on St. Albans, Vermont in 1864, and was a great supporter of veteran's causes after the war.  He was also one of Kentucky's greatest unsung historians.

John J. Crittenden.  Well known in his time, this  Kentucky governor and statesman is almost unknown today.

Husband Kimmel and Pearl Harbor

Anna Mac Clarke rushed off to war in 1942 as a WAAC, but there was another battle she would fight.  Here's another link   

                          with pictures.

Willie Sandlin - WWI Hero

Josiah Henson - The prototype for Stowe's Uncle Tom

The Polo Grounds - Carl Mays and Ray Chapman's fateful game.

Daniel Boone:  Explorer, hunter, frontiersman, Indian fighter, patriot...politician?

Franklin Sousley and the Fight for Iwo Jima

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