Prestonsburg

ID: 2234
This file appears in: Stratton Settlement

Solomon Stratton was one the founders of Prestonsburg, the county seat of Floyd County. This photograph shows Prestonsburg in the 1920s. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Stratton Settlement

By Katie Crawford-Lackey
Historical Marker #690 in Floyd County remembers Solomon Stratton, founder of the Stratton Settlement. Solomon Stratton was born about 1745 in Amherst County, Virginia. During the Revolutionary…