Gov. Robert P. Letcher

ID: 1142
This file appears in: County Named, 1842

Governor Letcher is buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Photograph courtesy of Stuart Sanders.

This file appears in: County Named, 1842

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #809 in Letcher County notes the namesake of the county, Governor Robert Perkins Letcher. Letcher was born in Goochland County, Virginia, in 1788. His family moved to Garrard…