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Black plaque № 45166

Edmonton, KY, United States

Founder of Edmonton. Edmund Rogers, 1762-1843. In the Virginia campaign of the war and the Revolution and at surrender of Cornwallis, 1781. As surveyor, joined General George Rogers Clark, his cousin, in 1783. A year later, came to area south of Green River. He made earliest surveys on Barren River

and tributaries and settled here. Laid out Edmonton in 1800. Family burial ground to the south. Erected in 1965.

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