Letcher Pocketwatch

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

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 County, Kentucky, about twelve years later. As a…