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The Old Log Court House, the oldest house in Cynthiana, was built in 1790. Henry Clay practiced law here in 1806. In 1817, the city's first newspaper, the Guardian of Liberty, was printed here by Adam Keenan, assisted by H. H. Kavanaugh, later a noted Bishop, and Dudley Mann, who became a diplomat to France. Guthrie's Arithmetic, the first to be published west of the Alleghenies, was also printed here.
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Cynthiana, Kentucky · United States
