Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical Page. Chapter VI. - Religious History of the County - Early State of Society - The Bap tists, the Pioneers of Religion in Kentucky, and in Christian County - First Churches and Preachers - Education - The Present School System - State Patronage - Origin of Our School Fund - Early Schools and Schoolhouses Statistics - Illiteracy - Compulsory Education - The Newspaper Press - Its Advantages to a Community - The First Paper in the County - Editors and Printers - Improvements and News papers - The Present Christian County Press. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.