Carpenter's Station, Kentucky
Carpenter's Station, Kentucky, originally "Carpenter's Fort", was established about 2 miles (3 km) west of present-day Hustonville, Kentucky,[1][2] by three Carpenter brothers,[3][4] George Carpenter, John Carpenter, and Adam Carpenter, who came to the site from Rockingham County, Virginia, in the summer of 1779. The brothers were of Germanic descent, sons of George Zimmerman (which Anglicizes to Carpenter), who was born c. 1720 in Switzerland, emigrated to Pennsylvania colony around 1740, and settled in Rockingham County, Virginia, before the American Revolutionary War.
References
- ^ Robert L. Kincaid: The Wilderness Road, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Ind., 1947, p. 198.
- ^ Katherine R. Barnes: "James Robertson's Journey to Nashville: Tracing the Route of Fall 1779" in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXXV, pp. 154-155
- ^ Steve & Virginia Tyler Carpenter: The Carpenters of Carpenter's Station, Kentucky, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carpenter/, accessed 4 July 2001
- ^ Mrs. D. A. (Janie Sue) McFarland: "Forgotten American Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Carpenter's Fort Cemetery, Lincoln County, Kentucky" in Kentucky Ancestors, Vol. 1, No. 4, April 1966, pp. 123-124; Vol. 2, No. 2, October 1966, pp. 68-69
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