Sesquicentennial Stone Monuments

Sesquicentennial Stone Monuments

The Laurel County celebration of the Kentucky Sesquicentennial Commemoration (150-year Anniversary of the State's formation) was held in conjunction with the Laurel County Homecoming in August 1942. According to The Sentinel-Echo on June 4, 1942, Laurel County marked the occasion in several ways, including placing 20 stone monuments to “designate, mark and map the route of Boone Trace through Laurel County, which with Skaggs Trace to Dick’s River were the only signs of man in Laurel County at the time Kentucky became a state in 1792.” 

Click the image below to see a slide show of photos the stone monuments.