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Official Website

History

Named for Benjamin Logan, who had been second in command of the Kentucky militia during the American Revolutionary War and was a leader in bringing statehood to the area, the county was created in 1792.

Future President Andrew Jackson fought a pistol duel against Charles Dickinson at Harrison's Mill in Logan County on May 30, 1806. Jackson was seriously wounded and Dickinson was killed.

During the post-Reconstruction period, there was considerable racial violence by white mobs against blacks citizens in Logan County; white gangs used terrorism to re-establish and maintain white supremacy. Racist mobs lynched 12 African Americans in the county during the years between 1877 and 1908; most were killed around the turn of the 20th century. This is a higher total than in all but one other county in the state. Four men were killed in a mass lynching on August 1, 1908 in Russellville, during the civil unrest associated with the Black Patch Tobacco Wars.

Logan was a major tobacco-growing county, with Dark Fired Tobacco produced by a special smoke processing. From 1906 some of its farmers became involved in the violent Black Patch Tobacco Wars, joining the Dark Tobacco District Planters' Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee to mobilize against the monopoly power of the American Tobacco Company, which had driven down prices to where farmers could barely make a living. Paramilitary Night Riders threatened other tobacco planters to "persuade" them to join the PPA. In late 1907 and early 1908, hundreds of Night Riders conducted raids against tobacco warehouses in some Kentucky towns. They struck Russellville on January 3, 1908, taking over the city and dynamiting two tobacco factories.

Adjacent Counties

• Butler County
• Warren County
• Muhlenberg County
• Robertson County, Tenn.
• Simpson County
• Todd Cunty

Cities & Communities

• Adairville
• Auburn
• Chandlers Chapel
• Corinth
• Dot
• Epleys
• Gasper
• Gordonsville
• Hilltop
• Hollow Bill
• Keysburg
• Lewisburg
• Lickskillet
• Olmstead
• Richelieu
• Russellville (County Seat)
• Schochoh
• South Union
• Whipporwill

Links

Wikipedia

Shaker Museum

Red River Meeting House site of the first religious Camp Meeting (June 13-17, 1800)

Nat'l Reg. of Hist. Places

Genealogy Trails

RAOGK

Logan County: The Early Years (video)