Historical Resources for the Nessa Donnelly Mysteries

• Meet Belle Brezing, Kentucky's most famous madam!
  
• The Mary Todd Lincoln House, which was Jenny Hill's establishment at the time of Circle of Dishonor.
  
• Some information on Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate.
  
• Male impersonation during the Civil War.
  
• Sarah Emma Edmonds, male impersonator and Union spy.
  
•  The Nicodemus Colony in Kansas:
  
• * http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210648
• * http://www.kansassampler.org/8wonders/historyresults.php?id=287
• * http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyfayett/african.htm
• Lexington History
  
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyfayett/shrines.htm
• http://www.visitlex.com/idea/historic-homes.php
• Here's a great site for information about Cynthiana, Kentucky:
  
• http://www.harrisoncountyky.us/
• Info on Camp Nelson!