Isaac Shelby
This file appears in: County Named, 1780
Isaac Shelby's portrait was painted near the end of his life, ca. 1820, by Kentuckian Matthew Harris Jouett. This portrait currently hangs in the Hall of Governors at the Kentucky Historical Society. Courtesy of Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: County Named, 1780
County Named, 1780
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…