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Ashland, Kentucky - Poage's Landing on the Ohio

Ashland, Flatwoods, Poage's Landing. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
1500–1776 Before registers no registers survive

Before registers.
1776–1792 Kentucky County, Virginia FamilySearch · National Archives Catalog (NARA)

A Virginia Assembly act of 31 December 1776 created Kentucky County, effective early 1777 (the county is dated 1777-1780). In 1786 the Poage family came from the Shenandoah Valley through the Cumberland Gap and built a homestead on the Ohio River called Poage's Landing.
1792–1854 Commonwealth of Kentucky FamilySearch · National Archives Catalog (NARA)

Kentucky became the 15th state on 1 June 1792. Poage's Landing remained largely an extended-family community until the mid-19th century.
1854–1922 Commonwealth of Kentucky - the city of Ashland FamilySearch · National Archives Catalog (NARA) · Chronicling America

In 1854 the settlement was renamed Ashland, after Henry Clay's estate at Lexington, and the General Assembly chartered the Kentucky Iron, Coal, and Manufacturing Company; the city was formally incorporated in 1856 (1854 in some accounts).
1922–2026 Commonwealth of Kentucky - Ashland and its steel town FamilySearch · National Archives Catalog (NARA) · Chronicling America

The American Rolling Mill Co. (ARMCO) opened its Ashland Works steel mill in 1922. The city government changed from council-manager to commissioner-manager in 1950.

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1742 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

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