A Supplementary Edition of a History of Greenup County, Kentucky - Paperback

by Nina Mitchell Briggs (Author)

By: Nina Mitchell Briggs, Pub. 1962, reprinted 2025, 154 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-608-6. Greenup County was created in 1803 from Mason County. It lies on the banks of the Ohio River which was a major migration path of person heading west from the Mid-Atlantic states like Pennsylvania. This history is similar to others of the era with topics on early settlers / pioneers, Town Plan, correction of errors, Land Grants, Indians, County courts, post offices, newspapers, a List of citizens from 1811, negroes, industry, transportation, Education, religion, Wars, and Towns/Villages. And then, followed up with roughly 20 pages of biographical sketches of these early settlers of the county. Surnames of these biographical sketches: Anderson, Berkeley, Brooker, Corum, Eifort, Floyd, Smith Garrett, Hertel, Jones, Lawson, Montgomery, Moseley, Nichols, Scott, Trimble, Walker and Warner.,