Portal:Madison County Historical Society/Intro
From Placeography
The history of Madison County is a rich and varied one and worthy of preservation. Since 1891 the Madison County Historical Society has been dedicated to that purpose.
The pages of Madison County's history are filled with colorful personalities and exciting events. Not far from I-75 is the old frontier Wilderness Trail on which legendary Daniel Boone and other pioneers traveled to establish Fort Boonesborough in 1775. Madison County was the birthplace of Cassius M. Clay, Kit Carson, African American man-of-letters Henry Allen Laine, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Samuel Freeman Miller, women's rights leaders Laura Clay and Belle H. Bennett, and five Kentucky governors.
- Much of the work done here is in collaboration with the Eastern Kentucky University Archives and Special Collections
