Livingston County - Smithland, Kentucky
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N 37° 08.297 W 088° 24.280
16S E 375241 N 4111136
This waymark is centered on the Livingston County Justice Center - 122 West Adair Street.
Waymark Code: WM13DH1
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2020
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The Place:
From the Wikipedia page for Livingston County, Kentucky:
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"Livingston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,519. Its county seat is Smithland. The county was established in 1798 from land taken from Christian County and is named for
Robert R. Livingston, a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence. The county was strongly pro-Confederate during the American Civil War and many men volunteered for the Confederate Army.
Livingston County is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
It is a prohibition or dry county with the exception of Grand Rivers which voted to allow alcohol sales in 2016."
My Commentary:
This is a rural county along the Ohio River with the Cumberland River emptying into the Ohio within the County. Lots of Civil War history along with a stretch of the Cherokee Trail of Tears inthe northern part of the County.
The Person:
From the Wikipedia page for Robert Livingston:
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"Robert Robert Livingston (November 27, 1746 (Old Style November 16) – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor", after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman. Livingston administered the oath of office to George Washington when he assumed the Presidency in 1789."