Commonwealth of Virginia Government. Office of the Governor Department of Criminal Justice Services. Provides programs and initiatives to improve the functioning and effectiveness of the criminal justice system. Department of State Police. Virginia State Police website; includes online Sex Offender Registry.
Founded in July 1797, Elizabethtown is the Hardin County seat. In 1779, three early settlers, Capt. Thomas Helm, Col. Andrew Hynes, and Col. Samuel Haycraft, built forts with block houses to use as stockades for defense against Native Americans. The forts, being one mile apart, formed a triangle.
The Forgotten Frontier (1931) is a documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service , nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge , and featured her cousin, Mary Breckinridge , who was a nurse-midwife and founded the Frontier Nursing Service . Also featured are the people of Leslie County, Kentucky , many of whom reenacted their stories.