950 Fleming County

Category: Markers

Marker reads, Kentuckys 26th, was taken out of Mason, 1798. Named for Col. John Fleming who came to area to mark, improve land, 1776. Officer in Rev. War. Built Flemings Station, second in county, 1788. Closely associated with other pioneers, John Finley, Michael Cassidy, and George Stockton, his half-brother, who owned the land and who laid out and named Flemingsburg, 1796.