Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Thomas SowellTV" channel.

  1. That, and correct his history of the founding of Kentucky's state capital. It wasn't a "group of Germans" that founded it, as it was supposedly named after one man from a group of traveling "Europeans," they believe, with the surname Frank, who was making salt at a ford in the Kentucky River, and was killed there by Native Americans. That is "likely" the naming story behind the myth, but they're unsure. However, the new state was looking for a place to build their capital so, in "1786, James Wilkinson, [which is a Germanic surname], purchased the 260-acre (110 ha) tract of land on the north side of the Kentucky River, which developed as downtown Frankfort. He was an early promoter of Frankfort as the state capital." It should have probably been named Wilkinsonville, or a variant thereof. "After Kentucky became the 15th state in 1792, five commissioners from various counties were appointed on the 20th of June ,1792, to choose a location for the capital. They were John Allen and John Edwards (both from Bourbon County), Henry Lee (from Mason), Thomas Kennedy (from Madison), and Robert Todd (from Fayette)." They were English and Scots-Irish, and technically, the founders.
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