A Mere Kentucky of a Place: The Elkhorn Association and the Commonwealth's First Baptists

by Keith Harper

As the story goes, an itinerant preacher once visited the Bluegrass region and proclaimed heaven to be "a mere Kentucky of a place." The Commonwealth's first Baptists certainly thought so as they began settling the region a decade before statehood. By 1785 a group of pioneering preachers formed the Elkhorn Association, widely regarded as the oldest Baptist association west of the Alleghenies. Often portrayed in the historiography as the vanguard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621906426
• ISBN13: 9781621906421
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"