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  Bracken County, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bracken County was organized as Kentucky's 23rd county in 1796 from parts of Mason and Campbell counties.
The orginal county was comprised of all the way to southern Nicholas County, north to the Ohio River, west to the Licking River and east to Dover, Kentucky.
In the county the population was spread out with 25.50% under the age of 18, 8.40% from 18 to 24, 29.50% from 25 to 44, 23.00% from 45 to 64, and 13.50% who were 65 years of age or older.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bracken_County,_Kentucky   (664 words)

  
 KCOJ - Bracken County, Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bracken County, the twenty-third county in order of formation, is located at Kentucky's northern border, along the Ohio River.
Bracken County's economy was largely agricultural; its chief crops before the Civil War were tobacco and corn.
The county is often considered the seat of the white burley belt.
www.kycourts.net /Counties/Bracken_text.asp   (381 words)

  
 DeWitt Colonist William Bracken
Bracken was wounded in both hands losing three fingers on one by a Mexican rifle ball while reloading his rifle during the attack on the fort and was the only Texian casualty of the action at Lipantitlán.
Bracken’s eligibility to be on the petition for annexation of JacksonCo to the Republic of Texas was confirmed in Apr 1838 in a document in the Archives of the Texas State Library, Austin.
Bracken’s will that under an order of Court on 28 Oct 1861 Amanda and Harriet were appraised at $1850 and reported incapable of partition that on 26 Nov 1861 [D-331] Wilkins Hunt informed the Court that he expected to … Amanda and Harriet at their appraisement and he did so.
www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/bracken.htm   (9460 words)

  
 Origins of Kentucky's County Names - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Bracken was a famed pioneer, hunter and Indian fighter.
Cumberland County was named after the Cumberland River which was named by surveyor and physician, Dr. Thomas Walker (1715-1794), as a tribute to the Duke of Cumberland.
No definite origin known, historians attribute Laurel County to be named for the immense growth of mountain laurel and rhododendron shrubs in the area, or the county is named after the Laurel River.
www.kdla.ky.gov /resources/KYCountyOrigins.htm   (1801 words)

  
 Ky Search: Bracken County Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bracken county, the 23rd in order of formation, was organized in 1796, out of parts of Mason and Campbell counties; is on the northern border; bounded N by the Ohio river, E by Mason county, S by Robertson and Harrison, and W by Pendleton.
The lands are high, and the surface rolling and hilly; the richest lands are in the eastern part; the rest, back from the river, being strong oak land, and producing in large quantities the finest "Mason County" Tobacco.
Bracken, an old hunter and pioneer, who visited the county in 1773, afterwards settled upon one of those creeks, and met his death at an early day at the hands of the Indians.
kysearch.com /bracken.html   (133 words)

  
 Bracken County - Workforce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Labor market counties are composed of counties which significantly exist within the sixty (60) minute drive range of the originating county’s county seat.
A county will be included within the radius if the centroid point of a county (a point representing the center of the geographic area of a county) falls within the drive zone.
Additionally, all contiguous counties will be classified as part of the labor market with the exception of non-Kentucky contiguous counties which have been excluded by the above mentioned 60-minute drive range and have a border with the Mississippi and/or Ohio Rivers.
www.thinkkentucky.com /EDIS/cmnty/cw101/Workforce.htm   (248 words)

  
 Cain Bracken
Union County overwhelmingly favored the new constitution, although it did not receive support from northern parts of the state and was rejected by the voters.
William BRACKEN was born in 1825 in Tennessee (per the 1850 census), in 1831 in North Carolina (per the 1860 census), or in 1820 in Tennessee (per the 1870 census).
In 1842, Haywood was arrested by the sheriff of Union County as a runaway slave and imprisoned in the county jail in Jonesboro.
www.freeafricanamericans.com /free_Bracken.htm   (5206 words)

  
 News of Delaware County - Jim Bracken   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bracken, of Havertown, was a Quartermaster with the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Bracken was 18 and a graduate of West Catholic High School when he joined the Navy.
Bracken's boat was in the second wave that went in about noon.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1725&dept_id=132961&newsid=10915663&PAG=461&rfi=9   (1648 words)

  
 Bracken Co, Kentucky Genealogy
Bracken county was formed in 1796 from parts of Campbell County and Mason County and is KY's 23rd county.
Located in the Outer Bluegrass region of the state, Bracken County is bordered by the Ohio River as well as Mason, Pendleton, Harrison and Robertson Counties.
In 1990 the county population was 7,766 in a land area of 203 square miles, an average of 38.3 people per square mile.
frontierfolk.org /brackco.html   (487 words)

  
 KADF 2005 Release - January   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bracken County Agriculture Advancement Council, Inc. was approved for $148,000 in Bracken County funds to establish a pilot Hay Handling Equipment cost-share program in Bracken County.
The Cumberland County 4-H Council was approved for $3,500 in Cumberland County funds for the development of a youth livestock program to teach livestock judging, showing and proper animal husbandry techniques to youth in the county.
County model programs are designed to provide farmers with cost-share funding to allow them to improve and diversify their current production practices.
kentucky.gov /Newsroom/kyagpolicy/050121_kadf_release.htm   (825 words)

  
 Bracken County Ky. BBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Bracken County Middle School and the Bracken County Family Resource and Youth Services Center col-laborated with the above-mentioned sponsors in planning the 2006 Career...
The Bracken County Homemakers held their 60th Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 22 at the Bracken County High School Cafeteria.
With a nice breeze willowing through the trees on the Clooney Lot located on the corner of Bracken and Second Streets, visitors to the car show were kept cool while their hearts raced and temperatures rose with the excitement of reminiscing about the first time they saw this car...
www.brackenbbs.com   (436 words)

  
 The Kentucky Post
Upset that the teen-age girl who participated in a double murder last year in Bracken County may soon get out of prison, family members of the victims are started a letter-writing campaign to oppose her freedom.
Dawn Renee Duffy was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday for her involvement in the December murders of two Florence men at a farmhouse in Bracken County.
Police say Russell W. Malapelli, 27, of Latonia, is in the Kenton County Detention Center in Covington, and Dawn Renee Duffy, 18, of Bellevue, is in the Mason County Jail in Maysville, as are Baker and Kirk.
kypost.com /news/murderarch.html   (951 words)

  
 The Ledger Independent - Maysville, Kentucky
Kentucky FSA has completed a plan to restructure county offices based on criteria that included program benefits paid to producers compared to the cost of delivery; Service Centers within 20 miles of each other and work load factoring out the loss of the tobacco program.
Mason County Executive Director Lloyd Allison said the move is similar to the consolidation of Mason and Robertson county offices several years ago.
Allison is currently focused on letting farmers know that tobacco is not the only crop grown in Mason County, nor the only one served by the FSA office.
www.maysville-online.com /articles/2005/09/12/local_news/702fsa.txt   (542 words)

  
 MacNeill Family - Oliver Goldsmith McNeill
Bracken County is right across the Ohio River from Chilo.
Oliver graduated from William and Mary, the second oldest university in the United States, and afterwards taught school in Bracken County.
Oliver and Martha were married February 19, 1859, in Bracken County, at the home of Martha's father, John Byar.
home.pacbell.net /roymc/OGMcNeill.htm   (275 words)

  
 KY:Historical Society - Historical Marker Database - Search for Markers
Select the county name from the selection box below or see the clickable state map and county list.
Description: In 1822 the trustees of Bracken Academy with conferences of the Methodist Church of Kentucky and Ohio merged to found Augusta College, the first established Methodist College in the world.
Buckner was member of 2nd Ky. Constitutional Convention, 1799; represented Bracken Co. in Legislature.
kentucky.gov /kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=County&county=12   (884 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
Bracken, on the International-Great Northern Railroad 13½ miles southwest of New Braunfels in southern Comal County, was named for William Bracken, who acquired land in the area in 1849.
The name was changed from Davenport to Bracken in 1883 because a Davenport post office had already been established in the state.
The population of Bracken stabilized around seventy-five in the 1970s.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hnb68.html   (226 words)

  
 Groundwater Resources of Bracken County Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In Bracken County, water is obtained from consolidated sedimentary rocks of Ordovician age and unconsolidated sediments of Quaternary age.
The oldest rocks found on the surface in Bracken County are those of the Lexington Limestone, deposited in shallow seas 490 million years ago during the Middle Ordovician Period.
For more information, see the definitions of geologic terms and rock descriptions, a geologic map of the county, a summary of the geology of Kentucky, and a discussion of fossils and prehistoric life in Kentucky.
www.uky.edu /KGS/water/library/gwatlas/Bracken/Geology.htm   (154 words)

  
 Brooksville, Kentucky and Bracken County
Spanning over 203 square miles, Bracken County lies in northern Kentucky along the border of Ohio.
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Bracken water official to magistrates: Bad news and even worse...
www.kyhometown.com /brooksville   (127 words)

  
 The Nicholas Countian - Lady Jackets fall to girls from Bath, Mason and Bracken in latest outings
The Nicholas County Lady Jackets fell to the Bath County Lady Wildcats 51-57 last week in a game played on the court at Owingsville, in spite of outscoring the Wildcats 31-23 in the second and third quarters of action.
The Bath County girls built a 13-7 lead in the first period, but the Lady Jackets outscored them by six in the second period to go into the halftime intermission tied at 22-22.
She hit a three pointer for Nicholas County’s points of the game as the clock was winding down in the first quarter, and she ended the game with 18 (58%) of Nicholas County’s total 31 points against the Lady Royals.
www.nicholascountian.com /home/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=474   (623 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Bracken County, Ky.
For convenient presentation of this material, the site includes a page for each of the more than 3,000 counties in the U.S., as well as for various U.S. and foreign territories and countries.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
The intent is to locate places according to current county names and boundaries.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/KY/BK.html   (501 words)

  
 Augusta, Brooksville, Germantown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Located at the corner of Bracken and Fourth Streets in Augusta, this building is representative of the brick slave housing structures remaining in Kentucky.
John Fairfield, an elusive conductor mentioned in Levi Coffin’s Reminisces, was arrested for “enticing slaves” and held in the Bracken County jail one winter.
The BCHS has its offices and museum in the old Bracken County jail located in Brooksville, adjacent to the Bracken County Court House.
www.nkytourism.com /cities/augusta_brooksville_germantown.htm   (1070 words)

  
 Bracken County KyGenWeb Main
Index of 2006 Obituaries in the Bracken County News
Index of 2005 Obituaries in the Bracken County News
Index of 2004 Obituaries in the Bracken County News
www.rootsweb.com /~kybracke   (645 words)

  
 Bracken County, Kentucky Genealogical Records Information
This page is for the general information on Bracken County, Kentucky.
Which includes Bracken County, Kentucky County Records, Bracken County, Kentucky History, Bracken County, Kentucky Facts, Bracken County, Kentucky Genealogical Addresses and websites related to Bracken County, Kentucky Genealogy in general.
OR maybe you have some free time and want to earn a little extra money running errands and helping someone in desperate need of a document in the local County courthouse, library, or archive, or maybe take a picture of a tombstone in a local cemetery or of a house across town.
www.mykentuckygenealogy.com /ky_county/bra.htm   (1008 words)

  
 KentuckyRoads.com - Bracken County
A ribbon cutting was held this week to mark the close of a project on KY 19 in Bracken County: Maysville Ledger Independent: Dignitaries to Officially Dedicate the Opening of Kentucky 19 in Bracken County (Nov. 8, 2005)
Secondary routes in both Warren and Jefferson County were still snow and ice covered; as were many of the ramps entering and leaving I-65.
A two-year long study of this route found that the entire route would not be financially feasible in Kentucky; however, the study found that several segments of the route would have an independent of utility.
www.kentuckyroads.com /bracken_county   (2008 words)

  
 Bracken County - 454 Enhancement and Retention of Agriculture in Bracken County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bracken County - 454 Enhancement and Retention of Agriculture in Bracken County
Bracken County is the 2nd most dependent tobacco county in Kentucky.
Bracken County will retain its Agricultural heritage through youth succeeding in agricultural ventures.
www.ca.uky.edu /internal/extrept/PlansOfWork/2005/023_4652.htm   (369 words)

  
 1997 Economic Census: Summary Statistics for Bracken County, KY (1997 NAICS Basis)
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www.census.gov /epcd/ec97/ky/KY023.HTM   (312 words)

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