Robert Letcher Coatee

ID: 906
This file appears in: County Named, 1842

This coatee was worn by Robert P. Letcher during his time as a diplomat to Mexico after the Mexican-American War. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: County Named, 1842

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #809 in Letcher County notes the namesake of the county, Governor Robert Perkins Letcher. Letcher was born in Goochland County, Virginia, in 1788. His family moved to Garrard…