Carpenter's Station, Kentucky | |
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  Carpenter's Station, Kentucky  Carpenter's Station, Kentucky | |
| Coordinates: 37°26′27″N 84°51′37″W / 37.44083°N 84.86028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kentucky |
| List of counties in Kentucky | Casey County |
| Elevation | 958 ft (292 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Carpenter's Station, Kentucky, originally "Carpenter's Fort", was established about 2 miles (3 km) west of present-day Hustonville, Kentucky, on the present-day county line between Casey and Lincoln counties,[1][2][3] by three brothers, George, John, and Adam Carpenter,[4][5] who ventured there from Rockingham County, Virginia, in the summer of 1779. The brothers were of Germanic descent, sons of George Zimmerman (Zimmermann anglicizes to Carpenter), who was born c. 1720 in Switzerland, emigrated to the colony of Pennsylvania around 1740, and settled in Rockingham County before the American Revolutionary War.
- ^ 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
- ^ US Geological Survey: The National Map, Feature Detail Report for: Carpenter Creek (historical), https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:0::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:2568347,Carpenter%20Creek%20(historical), last accessed 23 Aug 2019.
- ^ 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