Beriah Magoffin was born on April 15, 1815, in Harrodsburg to Beriah Magoffin, Sr. and Jane (McAfee) Magoffin. The junior Magoffin graduated from Centre College in 1835, studied law at the Transylvania University Law School, and briefly practiced as…

Pleasant Hill traces its roots to December 1806, when Shakers established their first permanent Kentucky settlement, Union Village, in Mercer County. Six years later, they moved their settlement to higher ground nearby, naming it Pleasant Hill. From…

On the morning of July 26, 1865, sixteen men walked into the small hamlet of Samuels Depot. They were Missourians formerly under the command Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill. Only a few weeks earlier, on June 6, Quantrill had died…