Lincoln County Courthouse

ID: 2609
This file appears in: County Named, 1780
Lincoln County Courthouse

This postcard shows the Lincoln County courthouse in Stanford. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: County Named, 1780

By Ashlee Chilton
Historical Marker #774 commemorates the namesake of Lincoln County, Benjamin Lincoln, an American general during the Revolutionary War. Although Lincoln County was named after him, General Lincoln was not from, nor did he live, in Lincoln County…