Washington, Kentucky

Washington is a neighborhood of the city of Maysville located near the Ohio River in Mason County in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

The land on which it was laid out was purchased by Fox and Wood from Simon Kenton, the original explorer and settler of the area who at that time lived close by.

The 1790 Census listed 462 residents, including 21 slaves and was the second largest town in the future state of Kentucky.

This post office initially served the whole Northwest Territory including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

His owners tried to get him back from Canada by arguing in a Canadian court that he was a criminal for having escaped and participated in the Detroit Riot.

After confirming his freedom in Canada, Thornton moved to Toronto, where he set up the first horse-drawn taxi service and was moderately affluent.

Even today the Toronto City Public Transport uses the colors, yellow and red, that Thornton established for his taxi service.

Washington achieved national attention in 1830 when on May 27 President Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have allowed the Federal Government to purchase stock in the Maysville-Washington-Lexington Turnpike Road Company.

However, President Jackson saw it purely as an intrastate road benefiting the state of his rival, Henry Clay, and vetoed it.

This auction and her other experiences with slavery led her to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, which has a number of references to Washington.

The character of Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin is thought to be modeled on a woman who lived in Washington, initially as a slave and then as a free person, Jane Anderson.

His father, Dr. John Johnston, was a physician and a native of Salisbury, Conn while his mother was from the Washington area.

He went to Princeton Theological School and then was sent in 1847 by the Washington Presbyterian Church and the Ebenezer Presbytery to be a missionary in India.