Carpenter's Station, Kentucky

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.

Carpenter's Station, Kentucky
Unincorporated community
Carpenter's Station, Kentucky
Carpenter's Station, Kentucky
Coordinates: 37°26′27″N 84°51′37″W
CountryUnited States
StateKentucky
List of counties in KentuckyCasey County
Elevation
958 ft (292 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)

References
  1. Robert L. Kincaid: The Wilderness Road, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Ind., 1947, p. 198.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. Steve & Virginia Tyler Carpenter: The Carpenters of Carpenter's Station, Kentucky, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carpenter/, accessed 4 July 2001
  5. 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
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