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Falls of the Rough River. Many Indian relics have been found here from several different tribes. “I was hunting along Rough River in Breckinridge County and came across a few overhangs and decided to scratch around. I started digging and came across several rocks that appeared burnt. Then I found a few pieces of flint that appeared to have been worked on.” BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY. Prehistoric grave in Cloverport. Mentioned by Collins. Abraham Lincoln's 1816 Out-of-Kentucky Path Through Breckinridge County Thomas Lincoln moved out of the Knob Creek Farm, his last Kentucky home, a few days after November 11, 1816.<ref name=Gregory>Gregory, Edward. (1938). “At the End of the Trail: The Story of the Journey of Thomas Lincoln and His Family Through Hardin and Breckinridge Counties, Kentucky, to Indiana in 1816.” Retrieved on November 27, 2014 from https://archive.org/details/atendoftrailstor00brec .</ref> Thomas Lincoln took his wife, son, and daughter from...

The name of Breckinridge has many racist implications. The Breckinridge Family is a political dynasty in Kentucky, and most nearly all of the historical Breckinridges are racist assholes. Time Magazine calls John Cabell Breckinridge the worst Vice President in American history http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1834600_1834604_1834616,00.html . At the age of 36, John Cabell Breckinridge is still the youngest person who held that office. Breckinridge was voted in as James Buchanan's VP, became Senator while still VP, and then later, he ran for President, but lost against Abraham Lincoln. After losing to Lincoln, Breckinridge tried to get Kentucky to secede to the Confederacy, and when that didn't work, Breckinridge immediately went to work fighting against the United States by joining the Confederate Army. His ex-comrades in Congress charged Breckinridge with treason. Breckinridge County's specific racism isn't any different than K...