Traveler's Rest

ID: 2612
This file appears in: County Named, 1780

Isaac Shelby's home, Traveler's Rest, was located Lincoln County. The photograph was taken in the early twentieth century. Courtesy of the University of Kentucky.

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…