Rockcastle History
ROCKCASTLE COUNTY HISTORY
By: Christina
In the late 1700’s to the early 1800’s, Stephen Langford
led several thousands of pioneers through the county. The pioneers traveled the Wilderness Road and Skaggs Trace. This area wasn’t particularly their destination, though a few families did settle here. It was until April 1, 1810 the establishment of Rockcastle County occurred.
Portions of Knox, Lincoln, Madison, and Pulaski counties formed Rockcastle County. The city of Mt.Vernon was named the county seat (also known as White Rock) and Stigall's Stand was established as the city of Brodhead, Ky.
It was one year before postal was established, meanwhile May 1882, Livingston Station changed to Livingston after James Livingston, one of the first settlers in the town. The first paper began in 1887.James Maret was the founder of this paper called the Mountain Signal, later changing to Mountain Eagle and is now the Mount Vernon Signal. Around the year 1909, the first public school, Brodhead High School was established. It wasn’t until Sept. 1937,before a fire station was put together and operating. Still one of the counties fire stations is named Brindle Ridge.
As the community grew bigger with schools, personal property, place of business, etc., the work industry wasn’t but a handful of jobs. The population grew fairly large over a ten-year period. Unfortunately, people began to move away or something during the 1940’s, which was a higher record of population than the year 2000. Most people moved up north to seek better jobs, but have always seemed to find their way back home.
Rockcastle County has many historical sites, which memorable events have occurred. For instance, The Battle Camp of Wildcat took place at the foot of Wildcat Mountain in 1861. Also in 1917-1919 Livingston operated a coal company with 25 employees.
Links- http://www.rootsweb.com/~Kyrockca/schools/rcc-schools7.html
http.//rockcastle county ky. Com/page-Our History Text.html
By: Christina
In the late 1700’s to the early 1800’s, Stephen Langford
led several thousands of pioneers through the county. The pioneers traveled the Wilderness Road and Skaggs Trace. This area wasn’t particularly their destination, though a few families did settle here. It was until April 1, 1810 the establishment of Rockcastle County occurred.
Portions of Knox, Lincoln, Madison, and Pulaski counties formed Rockcastle County. The city of Mt.Vernon was named the county seat (also known as White Rock) and Stigall's Stand was established as the city of Brodhead, Ky.
It was one year before postal was established, meanwhile May 1882, Livingston Station changed to Livingston after James Livingston, one of the first settlers in the town. The first paper began in 1887.James Maret was the founder of this paper called the Mountain Signal, later changing to Mountain Eagle and is now the Mount Vernon Signal. Around the year 1909, the first public school, Brodhead High School was established. It wasn’t until Sept. 1937,before a fire station was put together and operating. Still one of the counties fire stations is named Brindle Ridge.
As the community grew bigger with schools, personal property, place of business, etc., the work industry wasn’t but a handful of jobs. The population grew fairly large over a ten-year period. Unfortunately, people began to move away or something during the 1940’s, which was a higher record of population than the year 2000. Most people moved up north to seek better jobs, but have always seemed to find their way back home.
Rockcastle County has many historical sites, which memorable events have occurred. For instance, The Battle Camp of Wildcat took place at the foot of Wildcat Mountain in 1861. Also in 1917-1919 Livingston operated a coal company with 25 employees.
Links- http://www.rootsweb.com/~Kyrockca/schools/rcc-schools7.html
http.//rockcastle county ky. Com/page-Our History Text.html
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