Laurel's Legacies
A podcast about Laurel County, Kentucky's history, highlighting its people, places and events.
Episode 43 - The Battle of Camp Wildcat
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On Monday, October 21, 1861, a battle between Union and Confederate forces took place in northern Laurel County, Kentucky.
Known today as the Battle of Camp Wildcat, it was originally known as the action at Rockcastle Hills or Wildcat Mountain.
This episode covers details of the Battle of Camp Wildcat and includes the events leading up to the battle as well as the days following.
About 7,500 Union soldiers and 5,400 Confederate soldiers were engaged in the Battle of Camp Wildcat.Â
Union General Schoepf reported four soldiers killed and e...
Episode 42 - London's Big Fires
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Hello everyone. Welcome to this episode of “Laurel’s Legacies,” a podcast about Laurel County, Kentucky’s history, highlighting its people, places and events.
I’m your host, Danna Estridge, a former journalist turned historian with a passion for local history.
Between 1890 and 1910, London, Kentucky, was plagued by numerous destructive fires, some of which burned entire city blocks and dozens of businesses.
This episode takes a look at a few of the most destructive fires during that time period and explains how London business owners and residents dealt with...
Episode 41 - The First Flight at the London-Corbin Airport
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At 10:34 a.m. on October 1, 1953, the first commercial flight landed at the London-Corbin Airport in London, Laurel County, Kentucky.Â
Ted Arnold, Piedmont Agent and station manager for the airport entered the flight into the log book.
The first flight set down 45 minutes behind schedule due to heavy ground fog which caused a one-hour delay of the take-off at Wilmington, North Carolina, the flight’s origin point.
The 24-passenger Piedmont DC-3 plane that landed at the London-Corbin Airport on October 1, 1953, carried, among others, R. D. Hager of Winston-Salem, Nor...
Episode 40 - The Moore and McNitt Defeats
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In this episode I relate two incidents that took place on October 3, two years apart, nearly two and a half centuries ago.
Both of these events were "defeats."
As you probably know from some of my earlier episodes, "defeat" was an 18th century term for what we refer to today as a "massacre." I won't go into the details about the difference here, since I've already done that in previous episodes.
Please note that I relate the statements in this episode as they were written. I have...
Episode 39 - POW/MIA Remembrance Day
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Hello everyone. Welcome to this episode of “Laurel’s Legacies,” a podcast about Laurel County, Kentucky’s history, highlighting its people, places and events.
I’m your host, Danna Estridge, a former journalist turned historian with a passion for local history.
Last Friday, September 20, 2024, was POW/MIA Recognition Day, a national day of remembrance for military service members listed as Prisoners of War or Missing in Action.
National POW/MIA Recognition Day was established in 1979 through a proclamation signed by President Jimmy Carter.Â
Since 1979, every U. S. presi...
Episode 38 - The McClure Defeat
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I’m back!
After struggling first with allergies and then a bout of Covid, I’m finally able to return to my role as narrator of Laurel’s Legacies, a podcast about Laurel County, Kentucky’s history, highlighting its people, places and events, researched and written by me, Danna Estridge, a former journalist turned historian with a passion for local history.
If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that the last several episodes have been about the everyday people and events taking place during 1906 i...
Episode 37 - Laurel County in the News, June 1906
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Welcome to this episode of “Laurel’s Legacies,” a podcast about Laurel County, Kentucky’s history, highlighting its people, places and events, researched and written by me, Danna Estridge, a former journalist turned historian with a passion for local history.
Unfortunately, I am still suffering from an infection of the COVID 19 virus, and my voice is unfit for recording. I am therefore allowing my virtual assistant, Miss Ashley, to voice the entirety of this episode.
This week will continue using the entries from a book I researc...
Episode 36 - Laurel County in the News, May 1906
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Hello everyone.Â
Welcome to this episode of “Laurel’s Legacies,” a podcast about Laurel County, Kentucky’s history, highlighting its people, places and events, researched and written by me, Danna Estridge, a former journalist turned historian with a passion for local history.
Unfortunately, I am still suffering from an infection of the COVID 19 virus, and my voice is unfit for recording. I am therefore allowing my virtual assistant, Miss Ashley, to voice the entirety of this episode.
This week will continue using the entries from a book I researc...
Episode 35 - Laurel County in the News, April 1906
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Hello everyone.Â
Welcome to this episode of “Laurel’s Legacies,” a podcast about Laurel County, Kentucky’s history, highlighting its people, places and events, researched and written by me, Danna Estridge, a former journalist turned historian with a passion for local history.
Unfortunately, I am currently suffering from an infection of the COVID 19 virus, and my voice is unfit for recording. I am therefore allowing my virtual assistant, Miss Ashley, to voice the entirety of this episode.
This week will continue using the entries from a book I researc...
Episode 34 - Laurel County in the News, March 1906
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Hello everyone.Â
Welcome to this episode of “Laurel’s Legacies,” a podcast about Laurel County, Kentucky’s history, highlighting its people, places and events, researched and written by me, Danna Estridge, a former journalist turned historian with a passion for local history.
I'm going to be doing a couple of things a little different for some upcoming episodes.
First, due to this crazy weather affecting my allergies, which in turn affect my voice, the bulk of the episode will be voiced by my new virtual assistant, Miss Ashley.<...