Rockcastle

Mike Cope wants to be your next state senator; Cope hopes to replace Ed Worley, who has represented Lincoln, Madison and Rockcastle counties since 1999, as the 2010 Democratic candidate.

Media Coverage September 2009 2010

Twenty miles north in Rockcastle County, community activist Deb Bledsoe reported the same number over a period of ten or more years, saying that Rockcastle is still regarded by blacks as a "sundowner" county - if you want to be safe, better be out of the county before the sun goes down.

Hilary Lambert: Obama Volunteers Face Uphill Slog in White Rural Kentucky 2008

County (Georgetown) 83-71 in quarterfinals and Rockcastle County (Mount Vernon) 73-64.

USATODAY.com 2005

There are no slaves living in Rockcastle at this time.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration

He returned along other watercourses -- by way of the Rockcastle and Kentucky Rivers.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

Trail, that Boone and his companions discovered, near the old crossing at Rockcastle, Stewart's remains in a standing hollow sycamore.

The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920

I do not remember the station, but I am confident that it is some one of the following; Rocklyn, Rockwood, Black Rock, Rockcastle, or Newcastle.

Pinched 1907

It was now manifest that the place for the contemplated college was not in Rockcastle

Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky 1891

Soon after the celebration at Slate Lick, the time for my next appointment in Rockcastle

Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky 1891

Rockcastle mob the destruction came speedily and numerous.

Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky 1891