#Rockcastle County Kentucky

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Mount Vernon, Kentucky's Erica Lawson arrested; What happened to her daughter?

Erica Lawson, 21, of Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky, United States has been arrested. In February 2022, she gave birth to a girl. In early July 2023, an uncle of the girl contacted the police department of Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky to report that the she was abused. However, he did not know where she was at the time so the department could not locate her.

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Kentucky Votes "Yes" to Medical Cannabis! 🌱

By gubernatorial decree, Medical Marijuana is officially waking up the Bluegrass! A century-long prohibition on access is finally lifting, with all 120 counties automatically opted in. Some counties put it to a vote, and every single one said yes! The message is clear: Kentucky wants cannabis.

Top Results: Anderson County — 71% Yes Bourbon County — 72% Yes Bullitt County — 74% Yes Clay County — 68% Yes Clark County — 72% Yes Hardin County — 70% Yes Nelson County — 75% Yes Shelby County — 68% Yes Scott County — 70% Yes

And that's just the beginning! See the full list below to check out the wave of support across the state.

TL;DR: Kentucky stands behind medical cannabis. From rural counties to big cities, Kentuckians voted with a resounding Yes—time to make this change real!

Anderson County — 71% yes, 29% no

Ballard County — 60% yes, 40% no

Bourbon County — 72% yes, 28% no

Bullitt County — 74% yes, 26% no

Butler County — 61% yes, 39% no

Carlisle County — 55% yes, 45% no

Carroll County — 65% yes, 35% no

Carter County — 64% yes, 36% no

Caldwell County — 60% yes, 40% no

Calloway County — 63% yes, 37% no

Clay County — 68% yes, 32% no

Clark County — 72% yes, 28% no

Crittenden County — 54% yes, 46% no

Edmonson County — 57% yes, 43% no

Elliot County — 67% yes, 33% no

Grant County — 58% yes, 42% no

Grayson County — 65% yes, 35% no

Hancock County — 68% yes, 32% no

Hardin County — 70% yes, 30% no

Hart County — 61% yes, 39% no

Henry County — 71% yes, 29% no

Hickman County — 54% yes, 46% no

Jackson County — 59% yes, 41% no

Knox County — 66% yes, 34% no

Lawrence County — 60% yes, 40% no

Leslie County — 68% yes, 32% no

Lewis County — 57% yes, 43% no

Livingston County — 59% yes, 41% no

Logan County — 65% yes, 35% no

Lyon County — 61% yes, 39% no

Marion County — 76% yes, 24% no

McLean County — 60% yes, 40% no

Meade County — 70% yes, 30% no

Menifee County — 65% yes, 35% no

Metcalfe County — 59% yes, 41% no

Mercer County — 66% yes, 34% no

Monroe County — 55% yes, 45% no

Morgan County — 62% yes, 38% no

Muhlenberg County — 65% yes, 35% no

Nelson County — 75% yes, 25% no

Owsley County — 66% yes, 34% no

Pendleton County — 64% yes, 36% no

Robertson County — 63% yes, 37% no

Scott County — 70% yes, 30% no

Shelby County — 68% yes, 32% no

Taylor County — 64% yes, 36% no

Todd County — 62% yes, 38% no

Trigg County — 63% yes, 37% no

Union County — 63% yes, 37% no

Washington County — 67% yes, 33% no

Webster County — 59% yes, 41% no

Woodford County — 68% yes, 32% no

Adairville in Logan County — 63% yes, 37% no

Alexandria in Campbell County — 61% yes, 39% no

Auburn in Logan County — 63% yes, 37% no

Bardstown in Nelson County — 78% yes, 22% no

Bellevue in Campbell County — 76% yes, 24% no

Burkesville in Cumberland County — 60% yes, 40% no

Cadiz in Trigg County — 67% yes, 33% no

Clay in Webster County — 56% yes, 44% no

Coal Run Village in Pike County — 64% yes, 36% no

Dixon in Webster County — 57% yes, 43% no

Eminence in Henry County — 72% yes, 28% no

Falmouth in Pendleton County — 59% yes, 41% no

Florence in Boone County — 65% yes, 35% no

Franklin in Simpson County — 69% yes, 31% no

Georgetown in Scott County — 72% yes, 28% no

Greensburg in Green County — 64% yes, 36% no

Hickman in Fulton County — 65% yes, 35% no

Horse Cave in Hart County — 65% yes, 35% no

Kuttawa in Lyon County — 61% yes, 39% no

London in Laurel County — 66% yes, 34% no

Manchester in Clay County — 69% yes, 31% no

Marion in Crittenden County — 60% yes, 40% no

McKee in Jackson County — 68% yes, 32% no

Millersburg in Bourbon County — 64% yes, 36% no

Monticello in Wayne County — 58% yes, 42% no

Morganfield in Union County — 66% yes, 34% no

Mount Vernon in Rockcastle County — 59% yes, 41% no

Mt. Washington in Bullitt County — 70% yes, 30% no

Munfordville in Hart County — 66% yes, 34% no

Murray in Calloway County — 67% yes, 33% no

North Middletown in Bourbon County — 65% yes, 35% no

Russell in Greenup County — 58% yes, 42% no

Salem in Livingston County — 55% yes, 45% no

Sandy Hook in Elliott County — 70% yes, 30% no

Sebree in Webster County — 60% yes, 40% no

Shelbyville in Shelby County — 72% yes, 28% no

Southgate in Campbell County — 71% yes, 29% no

South Shore in Greenup County — 66% yes, 34% no

Sturgis in Union County — 62% yes, 38% no

Union in Boone County — 52% yes, 48% no

Uniontown in Union County — 68% yes, 32% no

Vine Grove in Hardin County — 67% yes, 33% no

Warsaw in Gallatin County — 61 % yes, 39% no

West Point in Hardin County — 71% yes, 29% no

Wilder in Campbell County — 62% yes, 38% no

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KENTUCKY STATE POLICE POST 11 TRAFFIC SAFETY CHECKPOINT ANNOUNCEMENT

LONDON, KY. (September 1, 2024), The Kentucky State Police, London Post which provides coverage for Clay, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne and Whitley counties, will be conducting periodic traffic safety checkpoints at approved by the Kentucky State Police Policy and Procedures Manual. These checkpoints will be conducted in an effort to enforce the traffic laws of the Commonwealth of…

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Dr William Hamilton Crawford

1. William Hamilton Crawford MD1 was born on 18 Apr 1823 in Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky.1–4 He lived in Howard County, Missouri about 1835.3 He lived in Kentucky about 1840.3 About 1841 William was studying medicine under Drs. Mason and Jones in Lancaster Garrard County, Kentucky.3 He lived in Rochester, Andrew County, Missouri in 1842.3 In 1843 he was a practiced medicine with Dr.…

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Footprints Left a Lasting Impression

When you consider how conditions have to be just right for fossilization to occur, it's something of a miracle that we have as many fossils as we do. Somehow people have even been able to find dinosaur footprints that avoided being destroyed, smeared, and or seriously altered long enough for the fossilization process to occur. The odds are against it, and yet there they are.

When fossilization human footprints are found, there's even more of a cause of amazement. Some of these prints are accepted by mainstream science, such as the 20,000-year-old human footprints discovered in New South wales, Australia, in 2003. Others are questioned as being either just too perfect to be real or too vague to provide conclusive evidence.

Of all the alleged human fossil footprint stories, those concerning the prints from Rockcastle County are the most famous. In 1938, an announcement was made by Dr. Wilbur Burroughs of Berea College that a series of humanoid prints had been discovered on a nearby farm owned by Otto Finnell, and soon other scientists gave credence to his finds. By 1940, the story was being written up in Scientific American and presented not skeptically, but as a reasonable and potential anomaly.

Dr. Burroughs held an open mind to the possibility that these findings could turn upside down what we thought we knew about an early man and be the cause for a rewrite of history. But he also proposed an alternate theory which suggested that more than one set of fossilization processes might have occurred, millions of years apart, with the end result having the appearance of one unified rock.

Creationists seized upon the story as vindication of their beliefs, nothing that these humanoid prints were in Permian carboniferous rock (approximately 250 million years old) from a time when dinosaurs were not yet found on the earth. And everyone knows that man and dinosaurs did not cohabitate the planet. Ever.

In retrospect, it's surprisingly that the Kentucky prints were ever given as much benefit of the doubt as they were: The prints were comically distorted and did not look particularly humanoid at all. Some had five toes, but some also had four and even three. They resembled cartoon representations of feet more than anything else, though this may be partially because of the outline-chalk done to the highlight the prints for Scientific America's rather poor black and white photographs.

Unfortunately, the photographs are all we have today: As happens all too frequently with such finds, vandals destroyed the footprints in the 1960s, and only then did someone say, "Geez, maybe we should have done something to preserve or protect them." Modern analysis might have been able to tell us something conclusive about the footprints, but now we can only forever speculate. Because of the peculiar appearance of the prints, some have even said they'd believe these were some sort of bipedal alien footprints before they'd accept them as those of cavemen. A most intriguing idea.

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I hope those residents class action suit the shit out of the company who was having that transported.

Regulate capitalism

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“I’ve Always Wanted To Sing In Renfro Valley” -- The Osborne Brothers and Mac Wiseman

Heartbreaking news out of Kentucky's Country Music Capital, y'all -- layoffs (or firings, depending on who you ask) at Renfro Valley. According to news outlets across the state, 12 seasonal employees (including members of Renfro Valley's house band, some who provided their talents for more than 50 years) received the following letter: "Effective immediately your services are no longer needed. We have no choice but to go in a different direction in order for the old barn to survive." Situated at the edge of Appalachia in Rockcastle County, the stages of Renfro Valley have been known to churn out some of country music’s biggest stars -- including Kentucky natives Red Foley and Merle Travis. Renfro Valley’s band leader, “Kricket” Reynolds told WKYT that she and at least seven others received the letters from Howard Thomas with Old Barn Entertainment: "We had played a show Thursday night, a show Friday and a show Saturday, and then we were handed the letter Saturday night (April 29) after the show,” Reynolds told WKYT. “None of us knew anything about it at all. The entire band, and let me make this clear, was fired. This was not a layoff." Additionally, Reynolds said Thomas asked the musicians to take all of their equipment and personal belongings with them. The band has reportedly hired legal counsel. Renfro Valley released the following statement to bluegrasstoday.com: "Renfro Valley Entertainment Center being in its 78th season is restructuring its business plan. All of these changes have been made and will continue to be made with the best of interest for Renfro Valley and our dedicated guests in our mind. Renfro Valley Entertainment Center will continue to operate with a full schedule, which will include more headliner concerts in both theaters and our Renfro Valley shows will continue. Renfro Valley has provided many tourists from all over the world to Rockcastle County, provided employment to many residents in the county and surrounding counties throughout the years, as well as providing tourism dollars and county taxes. We would like to have the local support with us as we move forth with our vision for the Valley." Renfro Valley is also home to the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Visit www.renfrovalley.com.

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A little more than 3 miles north of Dixon Kentucky, on the west side of US 41A is a historical marker with the title "Frontier Justice". There have been perhaps more newspaper articles, stories, legends and tall tales told about the story behind this marker than any other in western Kentucky.Historical Marker #1004 in Webster County remembers the brutal statement that was made by posting the head of notorious outlaw Micajah Harpe at a noted crossroads. Harpe’s head served as a warning and deterrent for other potential highway robbers and murderers.

Kentucky’s history includes some infamous characters and deeds, but probably none so desperate as the Harpes and the string of terror they unleashed on Kentucky’s byways in the late-eighteenth century.

The Harpes were born in North Carolina. While they often attempted to pass themselves off as brothers, apparently they were cousins whose families had sided with the British during the Revolutionary War. After the war, the Tory supporting Harpes were encouraged to relocate. They landed in what is now present-day southeast Tennessee and lived for several years among the Cherokees. Micajah Harpe, known as “Big Harpe,” and Wiley Harpe, known as “Little Harpe” had two women who traveled with them, sisters Susan and Betsey Roberts.

In 1797, the Harpes were living near Knoxville, Tennessee, and Wiley had just married Sarah (Sally) Rice. Apparently the Harpes made a living by rustling neighbors’ livestock and occasionally robbing travelers of money and goods. When the Harpes were captured after stealing some horses they escaped from their captors and vowed violence going forward.

The Harpes’ reign of terror began in East Tennessee and then proceeded though the Cumberland Gap and along the Wilderness Road into Kentucky. In December 1798, they killed a man they had befriended in present-day Rockcastle County, Kentucky. When they were captured shortly thereafter they were taken to Stanford and placed in jail. They then moved to Danville to await trial. The Harpes broke out of the Danville jail in March 1799. They next killed a boy near Columbia, Kentucky, and then headed for an outlaw’s paradise at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois, on the Ohio River. Being too cut-throat for the den of thieves there, the Harpes were forced to leave and head back to Kentucky where they left a trail of dead bodies between there and their old haunts near Knoxville.

In the summer of 1799, after killing several people near Henderson, Kentucky, Micajah was pursued by a posse to a canebrake in Muhlenberg County, where he was shot in the spine. A member of the posse cut off Big Harpe’s head and it was taken to a crossroads in present-day Webster County as a warning to others who might think of pursuing the life of an outlaw.

Four years later, Wiley "Little" Harpe was captured near Greenville, Mississippi, after being identified. With a swift trial Wiley was hanged, and like "Big" Harpe, his head was cut off and displayed. At the age 75 years young,Henry Skaggs led a pursuit and failed attempt to apprehend America's first known serial killers, the Harpe Brothers in 1799.Several vigilante posses were formed to look for the escaped criminals, but the only one that found them became frightened and ran. Skaggs, enraged, tried to reform the scattered party and pursue the Harpes, but to no avail. Undeterred, he pressed on alone, and an hour later encountered a crowd of some 20-30 settlers, jigging and drinking in the cabin of some newcomers at the close of a house-raising celebration. Skaggs told them his dire news. The men, already quite drunk, grabbed bottles and rifles indiscriminately and joined the hunt for the Harpes. Once in the forest, however, the posse's enthusiasm evaporated. Once again, Skaggs saw his followers disappear, and continued on alone.

Skaggs came to the cabin of a pioneer named Colonel Daniel Trabue, an old Indian fighter. Trabue agreed to join the hunt for the Harpes as soon as his son returned from an errand to borrow some flour and beans from a neighbor. Unfortunately for Trabue, the famished Harpes found his son first. The son's blood-soaked dog returned to the cabin and led Trabue and Skaggs to the sinkhole where the Harpes had discarded the body. He had been brutally beaten and tomahawked, and his load of supplies was stolen. Skaggs and Trabue searched for days, but never found the Harpes. Big Harpe committed his most terrible crime – he smashed his baby daughter’s head against a tree. He said he did it because she annoyed him by constantly crying. Later, he stated that this was the only killing that he felt remorse for. A week later, the brothers embarked on one more terrible murder spree.

The Stegall family in Webster County offered them shelter in their house. They were unaware of the terrible people that they were letting inside. That night, the Harpes killed another guest named Major William Love, the Stegall’s four-month-old child (because he cried), and Mrs. Stegall, when she screamed after she saw her dead child. Soon, a new posse was organized by a man called John Leiper. Moses Stegall, the father and husband of the recently killed members of the Stegall family, also joined this hunting party. The posse managed to track down the Harpes on 24 August 1799. When the brothers were asked to surrender, they decided to flee. In this attempt, Micajah Harpe was shot in the leg and pulled down of his horse by Leiper. While Micajah was dying, he confessed to twenty of the countless murders that he had committed. After the confession, Moses Stegall cut off the murderer’s head while he was still conscious. The head was spiked on a pole near the Stegall homestead. The place where the head was standing is still known as Harpe’s Head Road.

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Warren Brunner. Mother's Touch, Rockcastle County, Kentucky, United States, 1960.

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Daniel Ray Griffin, Kentucky inmate 240317, born 1991, incarceration intake at age 25, parole eligibility on 04/15/2023, projected expected time to serve 09/20/2026, full discharge on 05/13/2031

Burglary, Theft, Escape, Possession of a Forged Instrument

Griffin has a long history of attempted and somewhat successful escapes from custody.

In September 2, 2021, Griffin ran out of The Rockcastle County Detention Center.  According to the Rockcastle County Jailers and arrest citations, Daniel Griffin was caught following a chase down Highway 39 and Highway 150 from Lincoln County into Pulaski County where he was finally caught.

According to the citations, the chase started on September 6 at about 8:14 p.m. and ended at 10:35 p.m. when the Ford F150 pickup he was driving crashed.

The attempted murder charge and resisting arrest charges stem from Griffin’s alleged attempt to run over a deputy when he was trying to put out spike strips to stop the fleeing truck, tried to ram the driver’s side door on another deputy’s car, damaged two police cars during the pursuit and punched another deputy in the head several times during the arrest.

Griffin escaped from the Rockcastle County detention Center early in the morning of Sept. 2. He was working in the jail kitchen during breakfast and when the staff cook stepped out to get something from a freezer, and Griffin ran out behind him.

Jail administrators have recorded conversations of Griffin planning the escape with a woman, including one call just moments before his escape confirming she was where she was supposed to be to meet him, according to the citations.

Now he faces new charges of murder of a police officer, third-degree assault on a police officer, first-degree fleeing, reckless driving, and speeding, along with the old charges of first-degree and second-degree escape, being a persistent felony offender and other offenses.

Below is a post from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department describing the chase and arrest:

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Brookelyn Farthing

Brookelyn went missing after a party in Berea, Kentucky in 2013. After getting into a fight with a friend, Brookelyn was left stranded, without a ride. She sent texts to friends looking for a ride home, saying that she was scared. Hours later, she sent a text saying that she was fine and going to another party in nearby Rockcastle County. The last person to see her owned the house at which the original party was hosted. He went to move his horses early in the morning of June 22. When he came back to the house, it was on fire. Brookelyn was no longer there, nor was her cell phone. Her boots, purse, and clothes were. Police determined that the fire had started on the couch Brookelyn was last seen sitting on. It is believed that the final text sent from her phone was sent by someone else–someone who had abducted and likely murdered the teen.

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The story of the Extra Regiment's ordinary soldiers: From McCay to Patton [Part 10]

Continued from part 9

Giles Thomas, a Virginian, and Thomas Gadd, Marylander

In August 1832, Giles Thomas appeared before justices of the court saying that he he was 68 years old, having no evidence of his service "except a certificate for a lot of bounty land of Fifty acres" and that his name "is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State." He would be dead by 1850, as he is in censuses from 1810 to 1840. Living in Montgomery County, Virginia, he would die by 1842, with reports that he enlisted at the age of 16. Even a paperback book by W. Conway Price and Anne Price Yates titled Some Descendants of Giles Thomas, Revolutionary Soldier claims to go over his life story, and is available through the Virginia Tech University Libraries.

Reprinted from my History Hermann WordPress blog.

By 1840, Giles, age 76, was still living in Montgomery County as a census of pensioners made clear. Originally from Charles County, Maryland, he had at least one child with his wife Nancy:  a daughter named Elenor/Eleanor who had married into the Barnett family, living from about 1791 to 1853. Some within the DAR (Daughters of American Revolution) have clearly done research on him since he is represented by one member in a New York chapter. Then we get to his Find A Grave entry which says his spouse was Nancy Ann Wheeler (1762-1845) and that they had two children named William Jenkins (1796-1863), and Elias (1801-1877) and describes him as a person born on November 30, 1763 in Baltimore County, Maryland and married Nancy on June 04, 1786 in Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. On March 21, 1842, he died, with his gravestone describing him as a private within the Maryland line:

Courtesy of Find A Grave

Then we get to Thomas Gadd, who was born January 1760 in Baltimore and reportedly died in Rockcastle, Kentucky. Some say he died in 1832 (probably based on pages out of this book), but this is incorrect. His entry on Find A Grave says he died in 1834 and was put in an unmarked grave. In 1833, he was put on Kentucky Pension Rolls, and was age 74, living in Rockcastle County. [31] Other genealogical researchers seem to indicate that he had at least five children, including William. This cannot be further confirmed. [32]

However, a number of realities are clear. He seems to have been living in the county as early as 1810. Additionally, he was was alive as late as May 23, 1833 when he made the following deposition in Jesse Williams's pension:

I Thomas Gadd state, that I was in the Revolutionary War, and served in the same Batalion mentioned by the above applicant [Jesse Williams] in his original declartion but under diferent Captains. but I was well acquainted with the officers named by said applicant. I was not personally acquainted with the applicant in the service, but from a long acquaintance with him since and from conversations with him years ago and having served the same kind of service myself I have no doubt but he has stated the truth in his declaration & that he served as he states. Given under my hand this 23d day of May 1833

Hence, he could have died in 1834 after all.

The 1830s and 1840s: William Elkins, Giles Thomas, and William Patton

In 1835, William Elkins was on the pension roll and was living in Jefferson County, Ohio. [33] Sometime later on, he was buried somewhere in Jefferson County, although the location is not altogether clear.

Five years later, Giles Thomas is still alive and breathing in Montgomery, Virginia. A census that year describes Giles as a revolutionary pensioner who is 76 years old, basically saying he was born in 1764, putting his age 16 when joining the extra regiment. [34]

Jump forward another five years. William Patton appeared before magistrates in Wythe County, Virginia, aged 90 years, 8 months, and six days, putting his birthday sometime in September 28, 1754 by my calculations. The following year he says he was age 91, meaning he was born in 1755, differing from what he said the previous year. Hence, his age is not fully clear.

Map of Wythe County Virginia. Courtesy of Google Maps.

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AppHarvest Foundation Partner With Cowen Expanding AgTech Education Program to Rockcastle County High School in Mount Vernon, Ky.

AppHarvest Foundation Partner With Cowen Expanding AgTech Education Program to Rockcastle County High School in Mount Vernon, Ky.

The AppHarvest Foundation, which teaches controlled environment agriculture (CEA) to high school students across Central Appalachia in order to introduce them to entrepreneurship and high-tech agriculture, has announced the expansion of its AgTech Education Program with the addition of a hydroponic farm classroom at Rockcastle County High School in Mount Vernon, Kentucky. Leading financial…

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"Fighting for Rural Kentucky" - Interview with Josh Bray, Kentucky House Representative

“Fighting for Rural Kentucky” – Interview with Josh Bray, Kentucky House Representative

By Lily Barnette and Ülvi Gitaliyev Elected in 2021, Josh Bray is running unopposed this year. He represents the entirety of Rockcastle County, as well as parts of Laurel, Pulaski and Madison County, including most of Berea. The Berea Torch was able to interview him to discuss why he originally ran, achievements from his last term, and what he plans to do in the future! After being asked why he…

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Rockcastle County Public Schools in Kentucky to bus kids to church for bible study during school hours via /r/atheism

Rockcastle County Public Schools in Kentucky to bus kids to church for bible study during school hours https://ift.tt/T2tSPwG Submitted September 09, 2022 at 04:24PM by EVOSexyBeast (From Reddit https://ift.tt/JnKXhR4)