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Captain Philip Buckner, an Englishman and Revolutionary War veteran, came to Virginia, served his adopted colony as issuing commissary, received extensive land grants, and then settled here. In 1797, he donated this lot for Augusta Public Square as part of the land for the town. It became the site of the courthouse until it burned in 1848, and the pioneer jail is still standing.
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Augusta, Kentucky · United States
