Chartered 1795 as Newtown by legislature,
on land patented to Va. Gov. James Monroe, Wm. Henry & John A. Binns.
Commissioners Broderick, Gutridge, Baker & Clark sold lots.
Many Rev. War veterans or sons settled here.
Renamed Kentontown by 1800 for surveyor Simon Kenton.
Future governor Thomas Metcalfe built stone house about 1810 on Old Washington Road.
Many virgin forest log homes still standing.
Early Cedar Creek sawmill later run as grist mill by Gunsaulis family.
Stone quarried here 1830s for Claysville locks.
Lexington to Cincinnati Kentucky Central railroad ended lock project & stunted
growth.
Licking River tannery early 1800s. Lost to Mt. Olivet as county seat when county
formed.
Post Office 1830-1918. Charles Bramel grist mill & brandy distillery 2 miles west.
Moved 1903 to Sardis.
Kentontown Cemetery - One of oldest community cemeteries in state. Earliest gravestone
1818. Gravestones just north of church destroyed in 1883 storm. Expanded in 1883 &
1930's.
This information come from:
ROBERTSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY paper
No. 47, Vol. 12, No. 7, Oct. 2009
Editor: Bill Wheaton
