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Advocate Messenger Online - History

History section includes people and places, genealogy, Civil War and area state parks and historic sites.

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

County Histories of Kentucky New!

The County Histories of Kentucky consist of photocopies of historical surveys of Kentucky counties written by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1939.The collection includes typescripts, manuscripts, rare publications and oral histories on county and community histories written by regional and local authors. The surveys contain brief county histories, field reports, notes, preliminary and corrected drafts of essays, oral testimony, folklore and other miscellaneous materials. Added to the collection are county histories collected by researchers Stuart Sprague and Robert Rennick, special edition newspapers and other publications on county and community histories.

FrontierFolk.org

Historical information on the early Ohio Valley.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Kentucky

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Kentucky Folklore

Family legends and ghost stories.

Kentucky History Timeline

Kentucky's Underground Railroad - Passage to Freedom

Companion site to the KET TV's documentary on the Underground Railroad in Kentucky.

Northern Kentucky Views

Old photographs & postcards of the nNorthern Kentucky counties of Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Mason, Owen, Pendleton & Trimble.

The Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky, Lexington

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

Consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

The Unfolding Story: Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing (YouTube)

Louisville Genealogical Society Meeting on Jul 14, 2021: The Unfolding Story: Riverside, the Farnsely-Moremen Landing by Patti Lynn

Westward Movement: The Kentucky Microcosm (Wayback Machine)