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  Mercer County, Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mercer county is located in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky.
It was one of the Kentucky counties formed by Virginia in 1785 and was named in honor of General Hugh Mercer, a Revolutionary War officer.
Harrodsburg, the county seat, was founded in 1774 by James Harrod and was the seat of Kentucky county, Virginia.
www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/21167d.html   (54 words)

  
  Mercer County, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mercer County is a county located in the state of Kentucky.
A popular tourist attraction in Mercer County is Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, a living history museum.
The racial makeup of the county is 94.00% White, 3.69% Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 0.47% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.63% from other races, and 0.96% from two or more races.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercer_County,_Kentucky   (397 words)

  
 KCOJ - Mercer County, Kentucky
Mercer County was formed on December 15, 1785, from a portion of Lincoln County and was named in honor of Gen. Hugh Mercer, a Scotsman who was killed at the Battle of Princeton in the Revolutionary War.
One of the early settlements in Mercer County was McAfee Station, established in 1779 by the McAfee, Curry, McGee, and McCoun families.
The population of Mercer County was 15,960 in 1970; 19,011 in 1980; and 19,148 in 1990.
www.kycourts.net /Counties/Mercer_text.asp   (568 words)

  
 Mercer County Schools
The mission of Mercer County Schools is to forge a partnership among the home, community and schools in assisting all students in acquiring the knowledge and developing the skills and work habits to enable them to become productive members of a global society.
Mercer County Schools strives to remove barriers to student learning by incorporating teaching strategies and materials which address the different learning styles reflected in the diversity of the community.
Mercer County Schools continues its commitment to educational equity and the valuing of diversity by exposing all students to different cultures and by promoting positive interaction with diverse groups.
www.mercer.k12.ky.us   (292 words)

  
 American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky v. Mercer County, Kentucky (2002)
The plaintiffs allege that displayed on a wall of the Mercer County courthouse is a framed copy of one version of the Ten Commandments that is not part of any larger educational or comparative religion display.
The ACLU further states that its Mercer County members use the courthouse to transact civic business and that each plaintiff believes in the separation of church and state and the freedom of religion and is offended by the display.
Mercer County is not obligated to minimize the religious aspect of the Ten Commandments; instead, the context of the display is the constitutional key--it is the message of possible government endorsement of religion that must be sufficiently minimized by the setting and context.
www.belcherfoundation.org /aclu_v_mercer_county.htm   (10434 words)

  
 Kentucky: Mercer County Government - Welcome
Mercer County is ideally located in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky near the center of the state, 32 miles from Lexington and, I-75 via Bluegrass Parkway, 75 miles from Louisville via US 127 and I-64 and 110 miles from Cincinnati via I-75 North.
Mercer County, formed in 1786, is rich in history.
Mercer County is very beautiful and an attractive place to live and work.
www.mercercounty.ky.gov   (332 words)

  
 Mercer County, Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is located in the Bluegrass region of the state.
The elevation in the county ranges from 483 to 1000 feet above sea level.
In 2000 the county population was 20,817 in a land area of 250.92 square miles, an average of 83.0 people per square mile.
www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/21167.html   (55 words)

  
 American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky v. Mercer County, Kentucky (2005)
Mercer County concedes that the display itself is identical in all material respects to the third and final displays found unconstitutional in McCreary County.
We therefore agree with the conclusion of the district court that the display of the Ten Commandments in the Mercer County Courthouse is not an endorsement of religion.
Elkhart County naturally substituted the Preamble to the Indiana Constitution for that of the Kentucky Constitution, and also flanked the display with the flags of the State of Indiana and the United States.
www.belcherfoundation.org /mercer_county_appellate_opinion_2005.htm   (6771 words)

  
 Mercer County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1800-30 Vol. II-III -- Genealogy Search
Franklin County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1790-1815, Volume I A collection of marriage records for Franklin County, Kentucky from 1790 to 1815.
Fayette County, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1803-14 A collection of marriage records for Fayette County, Kentucky from 1803 to 1814.
Jessamine County, Kentucky Marriage Records 1799-1820 A collection of marriage records for Jessamine County, Kentucky from 1799 to 1820.
www.genealogy.org /db.asp?dbid=5709   (395 words)

  
 Mercer County Chamber of Commerce - Harrodsburg, KY Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Harrodsburg, the county seat of Mercer County, is the oldest permanent English settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains.
The city is located 33 miles southwest of Lexington, Kentucky; 74 miles southeast of Louisville, Kentucky; and 111 miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mercer County, with a land area of 250 square miles, is located in the
www.mercerchamber.com /profile.html   (116 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Mercer County, Kentucky Obituaries
A native of Anderson County, she was the daughter of the late Bruner and Moriah Waldridge Darnell, a homemaker and a member of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church.
According to a report from the Kentucky State Police, Mason, 49, was traveling east on U.S. 150 when she lost control of her vehicle and crossed the center line, striking a vehicle driven by Mark Bowlin of Tennessee, which was traveling west on U.S. According to the report, the impact was nearly head on.
Born November 29, 1905 in Mercer County, she was the daughter of the late Abraham Lincoln Stratton and the late Susan Emma Peyton Stratton.
www.genealogybuff.com /ky/ky-mercer-obits18.htm   (12293 words)

  
 Mercer County, Kentucky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mercer County is a (A region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government) county located in the (The way something is with respect to its main attributes) state of (A state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses) Kentucky.
Its (The town or city that is the seat of government for a county) county seat is (Click link for more info and facts about Harrodsburg) Harrodsburg (Click link for more info and facts about
The (The total national income divided by the number of people in the nation) per capita income for the county is $17,972.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/mercer_county,_kentucky.htm   (505 words)

  
 The Dishman Family of Virginia - Person Page 1287
She was probably the female, age 26 to 44, in Peter S. Dishman's household on the 1810 census in Mercer County, Kentucky.
She was probably the female, age 26 to 44, in Peter S. Dishman's household on the 1820 census in Mercer County, Kentucky.
She was probably the female, age 50 to 59, in Peter S. Dishman's household on the 1830 census in Barren County, Kentucky.
dishmanweb.com /Dishman-p/p1287.htm   (474 words)

  
 Harrodsburg, Mercer County,Kentucky Menu Page
Harrodsburg, the county seat of Mercer County, was founded in 1774 by a stalwart band of pioneers led by James Harrod, of Pennsylvania.
When Kentucky County was divided into the counties of Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln, Harrodsburg was the county seat of Lincoln County, which at that time covered over a third of the soon to be state.
In 1785 Mercer County was taken from Lincoln and Harrodsburg has remained the county seat of Mercer County.
www.merceronline.com /mercer.htm   (192 words)

  
 Kentucky: Court of Justice - Home
The Judicial Nominating Commission met April 16 at the Capitol to choose nominees to fill a vacant position on the Kentucky Court of Appeals for the 3rd Appellate District, Division 1.
National mediation expert Dr. Daniel Shapiro addressed Kentucky mediators and attorneys April 17 at the 2nd Annual Colloquium on Mediation hosted by the Administrative Office of the Courts.
Guardian ad Litem seminars are free and provide children's attorneys with an overview of Kentucky statutory and case law.
courts.ky.gov   (562 words)

  
 Rebecca Reynolds Trails - Depicting her Journeys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
On 4 Jul 1817 they were in Mercer County, Kentucky (this is the date of Jane's wedding, the family had most likely migrated together).
To the Kentucky pioneer, the American Revolution was years of fierce Indian raids and winters with limited rations because crops could not be planted or harvested.
Virginia controlled Kentucky, but found she had little access to the land on the other side of the mountains.
www.macatawa.org /~brianter/RebeccaReynoldsTrails.html   (2040 words)

  
 Haggin Surname of Bourbon County, Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Haggin's place, in the edge of what is now Harrison county; they were riding slowly and cautiously along watching for enemies, when, looking forward to the place where the cabin had stood, they perceived that it had just been burned down, and saw three or four Indians setting near the ruin.
"He came to this country (Bourbon County, Kentucky) in the spring of the year 1780 and settled at Ruddell's Station which stood on the bank of the South Fork of Licking, and he continued to reside at said station until it was taken by the Indians during the same year.
He married his first wife, Elizabeth Collier, in November, 1844; she was born in Nicholas County, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Williams) Collier, natives of Virginia; she died about the year 1847, leaving two children--Thomas, who died at twenty-one, and Elizabeth, now the wife of A. A Pyatt.
www.shawhan.com /Notes/haggin.html   (2342 words)

  
 99queries10.html - Mercer Co. KY Queries - 1999
Elizabeth Married Cornelius Banta in Metamora (Tazewell/Woodford county) in 1839 and died in 1859.
Jarrett (Garrett) Lovell born March 19, 1819 in Mercer County, KY and died January 18, 1891 in Marshall County, IN.
Andrew M. was born in Mercer Co. and married a Catherine J. Weatherford 1st in Mercer Co. he later moved to Breckinridge Co. That is were the Webb comes in.
www.pastracks.com /states/kentucky/mercer/archived/99queries10.html   (2149 words)

  
 Bethel #1 Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky
He studied law and was licensed and began at once to prepare himself to practice in Kentucky and Indiana, but was caught in the religious fervor of the Great Revival, and at the age of 24, he professed religion and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for the ministry.
Laban Jones, in 1844, had gone to Jefferson County to become pastor of the Bethlehem Church, but he returned to Mercer to preach a dedicatory sermon in 1847, of the new log Bethel Church, of which Rev. David Robinson was the first pastor.
Jones died in 1848 and is buried in the Bethlehem Cemetery.
www.cumberland.org /hfcpc/churches/Bethe1KY.htm   (2009 words)

  
 Cardwell, James, Pension Statement W2998, Excerpts
Sally Cardwell of said county, aged 75, declares she is the widow of James Cardwell who was a soldier in the Virginia militia upwards of two years.
Thomas Harvey of Charlotte County, Virginia declares in the early part of 1780 James Cardwell, formerly of said county, was drafted in the militia under Capt. Thomas Williams and marched to the south and was at the battle of Camden in August 1780.
John Cardwell of said county declares he is the son of James and Sally Cardwell, late of Mercer County, and administrator of Sally Cardwell, a pensioner at $20 per annum.
battleofcamden.org /cardwellpens.htm   (1067 words)

  
 County of the Month: Mercer - Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
The area known as Mercer County was one of the first settled in the Commonwealth.
In 1780, the Virginia Assembly divided Kentucky County into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties, with Harrodstown the county seat for Lincoln County.
In 1785, Mercer County was formed out of Lincoln County, and Harrodstown remained the county seat.
www.kdla.ky.gov /resources/countyomonth/mercer.htm   (871 words)

  
 Mercer County, West Virginia Genealogical Records Information
Mercer County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on March 17, 1837, from parts of Giles and Tazewell counties (Virginia).
A conflict arose over the location of the County Seat in 1865 because Judge Nathaniel Harrison was not allowed by the local residents to hold court in Princeton, primarily because he had left the Confederacy and most of the local residents had supported the South during the Civil War.
A special election was then held in the county to resolve the issue of where the County Seat was to be located.
www.mywestvirginiagenealogy.com /wv_county/mer.htm   (913 words)

  
 Mercer County, Kentucky KY, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Mercer County is in the Bluegrass region.The county was named for Gen. Hugh Mercer, Revolutionary War officer killed during the Battle of Princeton
Mercer County is one of 120 counties in Kentucky.
This was an increase of 3.25% from the 2000 census.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4173   (437 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Mercer County , Kentucky (KY) - (county) - Facts and Information
Mercer, county (253 sq mi/655 sq km; 1990 pop.
Harrodsburg; 37°47'N 84°52'W. Bounded NE by Kentucky R., SE by Dix R.; forms Herrington L. by Dix Dam; drained by Salt and Chaplin rivers.
Capital city or county seat is shown by the symbol
reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/M/M06215-mercer.html   (169 words)

  
 A Storm of Honey--Notes from the Sabbath Country by Charles Semones
Charles Semones was born in 1937 at Deep Creek in rural Mercer County, Kentucky.
He was educated in the public schools of Mercer County and at Campbellsville College (now University) and Eastern Kentucky University where he took creative writing courses.
Other than Robert Penn Warren, the Kentucky writer he most admires is Elizabeth Madox Roberts (to whose memory he is devoted and through membership in the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society works to restore Miss Roberts to her rightful place in American literature).
windpub.com /books/storm.htm   (862 words)

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