Letcher Pocketwatch

ID: 910
This file appears in: County Named, 1842

This pocket watch was owned by Governor Robert P. Letcher. 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…