Edmund Rogers, Founder of Edmonton
Edmonton, Metcalfe County, Kentucky
Marker Inscription
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.
Erected by Kentucky Historical Society
The Story
Edmund Rogers served in the Virginia campaigns of the Revolution and was present at Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown in 1781 before turning westward as a surveyor. In 1783 he joined his cousin, frontier soldier George Rogers Clark, and the next year pushed into the country south of Kentucky's Green River, making some of the earliest surveys along the Barren River. He settled the area and laid out the town of Edmonton in 1800.
Why it matters
Rogers embodies the Revolutionary veterans who became the surveyors and town-founders of the trans-Appalachian frontier, converting military service into the settlement of a new republic's western lands.
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Related people
- · Edmund Rogers
- · George Rogers Clark
Related events
- · Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
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