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Show 20! Counties. Adair :Barren Bath Boone Brackfln Bra d~enridge Bourbon Bu:her Bullet Clarke Casey Campbell Christian Cumberland Clay Caldwell Estill Fayette· Franklin Fleming Floyd Gallatin Greenup 6-rf'en Grayson. G1rrard I-fpnry H.~rr'son TPnderson H:miPn H ·pkin's Jessamine J' fferson Knox Lexington JAviugston. Lewis Lincoln L(1 •an 1\1 CJ. on Mt rcer Mo i:--on M 1hlf.>.,hurgh l\1, ,tJtyomery ~ rcb·das ' Nel. on 131\IIGRAJ T'S GUIDE. "tOPOGRAPHICAL TABLE .. KENTUCKY. Populat·ion. Chief towns and populal~o~~ o,O tl Columbia 175 11 '186 Gla~<YOW 0 244 3)608 3,451 .Augusta 255 3,430 18,009 f>aris 838 2, 181 4,311 11 ,5l9 lVincbester 530 3,285 Liberty 33 3, 60 Newport 413 I 11 ,OiO Hopl\insonville 13:1 6,191 Eurkesville 106 2 398 4,268 2,082 2 I ,370 Lexington 4326 8,013 Frankfort 1099 8,947 3,484 Pre ~t o nvillP 32 3 ,307 l'ort Wilham 120 2,3G9 a. 7. ~ 5 Grccnsburgh 132 2,301 9,1 H6 Lanca£ter 260 g.777 Newcastle 12$ 7,752 Cinthiana 369 4,703 Uenc.lcrf'on 159 7,531 Eliza beth-town 181 2,964 M. disonville 27 8,377 N 1cbo!asv ille 158 13,399 . Louisville 1357 5,875 .Barboursville 55 .3,674 Smithland 99 2,357 8.676 . ] 2,123 Russel ville 53e 12,459 W a~hington 81& 1 2 ,s:~o Danville 432 15,540 Richmond 366 4, 81 GrPenville 75 12,875 Mountsterling 42£J 4 :.gg 14,078 Beard's town 821 I • unttes. Ohio Pulaski Pt-ndlPton Rod · Castle Scott Shelby Union Wayne W .., 11ngton W.l ri'Cll Woodtorcl l iMIGR N'f'S GUIDE. Poptdalion. 3 ,682 6,897 3,061 1,731 1 ~,419 14,837 5,430 l3,'i48 11,837 9,659 40o,51I • 203 Chieflowng and population. HarttorJ 1 J 0 Falmouth 121 Georgetown 529 SheJ bvville 424- " ' Monticello 37 SpringfieiJ 249 Bowling green 154 V ersai}Jes 488. Pt·ogressive geog?·aphy ,-population.-1 n 1768 the first whites of whom we have a well authenticated account pf\ssiJ into Kentucky. Daniel Boone, in 17'i(). traversed the c0untry, and in 177 S the first attempt wa:3 made at a ~ettlem erit by white families. lf any part of the inhabited earth could be said to have been peopled in tear. and blood, that was, emphatically, Kentucky. lnviteJ by the excellence .of the soil nnd beauty of the country, the whit~s persisted in removing into il: stimulated by dread of encroachment, anc.l determined on pre erving their besl hunting grounJ, the savflges defended their re idcnce with d<-'s peration. The discipline and numbers of the former prevailed. After many years of war, the savag s abandoned the contest, and yielding Kentucky, prepared the way for much more extensive conquest3. Eleven years after the first effectual settlement, Kf!nlurky was separatP. d from Virginia by the I()Jiowing limits: the state of Tennes· see south, the Mi:-si ssippi river west, Ohio river northwest, Big Sandy river east, and Cumberland mountain c:outheast ; having the state of Tennessee south, Missou ri territory west, lllinoi. territor-y and the state of J nd ian a north west, the state of Ohio north, and Virginia east. anc.l southeast. . In 1790 Kentucky contained 73,677 per.sons. In 1800 220,959, and In l 810 bad increased to 406,511. The same ob ervation made respecting the progre sive accumulation of the people of Tennessee, may be repeated as regards that of Kentucky . The increase was much more comparatively greater between 1790 and 1800, than in the ten y€ars antecedent to tbe last census. . Kentucky became a state of the United States, June 1792, when tts population diu not either much exceed or fall short of 100,000 inhabitants. Allowin~ a similar increment as given to Tennes ee, Kentucky llow contams about 580,000 people. The rapid increase to \Yealth and con. equeuce of this state, from that of a howling wilderne. s, has, perhaps., no p:uallel in the history of the human species. If Tennessee Is excepted, no other part of the United States was peopled under :;;uch accumulateJ difficulties as Keuluck y . N atnral featv,re~ ,-procluc:tion.r;) natural and ·artificial.-Geological· |
