Kentucky County, Virginia

Other events include the invalidation of Transylvania Colony and the survey of Walker's Line, Kentucky's southern boundary.

General George Rogers Clark conducted his famous Illinois Campaign from his base at the Falls of the Ohio in 1778–79.

Most of it except a wedge adjacent to the Cumberland Mountains, lies in the geographic region of the Pennyroyal, and occupied over 35% of the land area of Kentucky County.

Legitimate claims held under the Transylvania colony were excluded from allocation, as well as the grant to Richard Henderson along the Green River.

[2] Afterward, these counties and those set off from them later in that decade were designated collectively as the District of Kentucky by the Virginia House of Delegates.