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===== Events =====
==== Boone County ====
  * The retirement community of [[Hygeia]] is designed.
  * Two high-pressure [[steamboats]], the //Chesapeake// and the //Speedwell//, are built at [[Big Bone]].

==== Kentucky ====
  * In Lexington, Thomas Harris Barlow constructs the first model [[railroads|railroad]] and locomotive ever run in Western America.

==== U.S. & World ====
  * The Second Great Awakening, a period of intense, emotional religious revivalism, sweeps the United States. 
  * The //Freeman's Journal// is the first black [[newspapers|newspaper]] in the U.S. It urges the abolition of [[slavery]].
  * Cincinnati enjoys its brief heyday before the rise of Chicago as the Queen City of the West, second in population only to New Orleans.

===== More Information =====
  * Boone County [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/26556/0|Guardian Bonds Listing]], 1827-1830.
  * Boone County [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/32030/0|Tax Lists]], 1827.