Grant County Historical Society
History of Grant CountyComing Soon!
A digital copy of “The History of Grant County, Kentucky,” edited by John B. Conrad and published by the Grant County Historical Society will be added to this page for all to view. This book is a foundational text for all who are interested in the history of Grant County, Kentucky.
“Be it remembered, that agreeably to an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, passed on the twelfth day of February, 1820 entitled, ‘An act for the division of Pendleton County,’ Jediah Ashcraft, William Layton, Samuel Simpson, Nathaniel Henderson, John Sipple, William Woodyard, and Benjamin McFarland, Gentlemen Justices, named in the Commission of the Peace, met at the house of Henry Childers on the Dry Ridge Road in the County of Grant.”
-Samuel Simpson, From the Minutes of the County’s first Court Meeting.