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Stanford was founded in 1781 on the Wilderness Trail by Benjamin Logan and established in 1786. Logan had built Fort Saint Asaph in 1775. The first courthouse in Kentucky stood there in 1781. Lincoln County, formed in 1780 as one of Kentucky's three original counties, was named for Revolutionary soldier Benjamin Lincoln and was home to Isaac Shelby, Kentucky's first governor, and Wm. Whitley, an Indian conqueror. The place was dedicated to Lincoln pioneers.
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