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1870's
Events
Boone County
Kentucky
U.S. & World
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Events
Boone County
1871 - Fire destroyed the
Percival Hotel
in
Walton
, killing three people.
1874 - The Cincinnati firm of Freiburg & Workum purchase the
Petersburg Distillery
.
1875 - The
Boone County Recorder
is founded by W. L.
Riddell
1878 - The
1817
county
courthouse
is remodeled.
Kentucky
1875 - Aristides, ridden by
African-American
jockey Oliver Lewis, wins the first Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville.
1876 - The bizarre Kentucky Meat Shower takes place in Bath County, where what appear to be flakes of red meat fall from the sky.
U.S. & World
1870 - The 15th Amendment to the Constitution is officially ratified, giving
African-Americans
the legal right to vote.
1873 - Jesse James and the James-Younger gang complete their first successful train robbery in the West.
1876 - General Custer and the 7th U.S. Cavalry are routed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1878 - The Edison Electric Company begins operations.