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4:30:02 OoOoO!!! Levi Has sent Me Info
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The Kentucky General Assembly established Trimble County in 1836 and was named after a Kentucky Lawyer and Supreme Court Justice Robert Trimble. Trimble County is a small county with few businesses and Trimble County Citizens personally own most. The formal government of Trimble County was first organized on March 27, 1837. Milton is one of the oldest towns in Kentucky, but few known towns surround this small country town. Trimble County has a small population, especially compared to the square mileage of Trimble County. The 1990 United States Census recorded a county population of 6,090. The census is probably a little bit off since people are constantly moving into Trimble County. I approximate the population of Trimble County to currently be 6,350 at least; so at a population of 6,350 there are 42.9 people per square mile living within the border of Trimble County.
Trimble County used to be of some sort of an importance to the Underground Railroad. Trimble County was one of the places that the Underground Railroad went through to take slaves to the North so that they could become free. But slaves often times faced difficulties escaping because of people who would pretend to be an abolitionist and instead sell slaves back to their owners. If you were a slave in Trimble County you were lucky considering the alternatives. Trimble County slaves had a couple of advantages to other slaves in the respect of escaping. They had more rights than slaves farther south because it is part of Kentucky. Kentucky slave owners were kinder to their slaves most of the time because they were farther North and closer to freedom. The other thing is that slaves got the weekends to spend with family and friends unless specifically told by their master that they could not go. So they could leave and were not expected back until Monday morning, but they were right on the border of slavery and freedom. So what they had to do to escape was to wait until they were allowed to leave, then cross the Ohio and not tell anyone what they are doing and that gives them till Monday before anyone actually looks for them.
One slave that escaped to the North wrote an autobiography and told his story about escaping from Trimble County to Canada. This particular slave went through all the different kinds of slavery that was going on in the U.S. His name was Henry Bibb, he had a wife and daughter, who were also slaves. If I recall correctly he escaped from slavery over three times. But almost every time he risked his life, all in vain, to come back to the slave states to try to save his little family from the horrors of their everyday life. Henry Bibb's book, The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, describes in great detail most of his experiences as a slave, an escaped slave, and a father and a husband who has to suffer watching his loved ones face terrible treatment. Trimble County is not a particularly important place, but
things that happened here a long time ago that are often times overlooked.
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