Map of the State of Kentucky with the Adjoining Territories

ID: 4244 ~ Source: "Map of the State of Kentucky with the Adjoining Territories," Kentucky Historical Society, https://kyhistory.com/digital/collection/Maps/id/113/rec/3
This file appears in: Marker #1258 "Mercer County/County Named"
Map of the State of Kentucky with the Adjoining Territories
This file appears in: Marker #1258 "Mercer County/County Named"

By Jim Seaver
From its earliest years of Anglo-American settlement in the eighteenth century, Kentucky’s territory fell under the political control of neighboring Virginia. In December 1776, the Virginia legislature created one sprawling Kentucky County, with…