1810
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1810
Elzaphan Hume is the County Sheriff. Archibald Huston is his deputy.
Events
Boone County
- The County Court permits a ten foot high mill dam to be built on Middle Creek.
- On June 8, William Clutter is executed in Burlington for the murder of John Farmer.
Kentucky
- Commercial lumber production begins in Kentucky.
U.S. & World
- French chemist Louis Nicholas Vauquelin identifies the active ingredient in tobacco, naming it nicotianine after Jean Nicot, the French diplomat who sent tobacco back to France from Portugal.
- A festival held to celebrate the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen will become an annual affair under the name of the Munich Oktoberfest.
More Information
- 1810 U.S. Federal Census for Boone County
- 1810 U.S. Federal Census Index for Boone County
- Boone County Court Orders, 1810.
- Boone County Tax Lists, 1810.
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