Transportation--Kentucky--History; Kentucky. Board of Internal Improvement--History
For a brief period of fifteen years, the Board of Internal Improvement occupied a place of prominence in the political and economic affairs of Kentucky. From its
creation in 1835, until the revision of the constitution in 1850, the board spent vast...
George W. Williams was born in 1814 on his fathers farm in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. He attended private schools in Louisville, and after a brief period teaching in Arkansas in 1838, he read law in the offices of a Louisville lawyer and was...