Join the John Fallis Gang at the $25 level. When Fallis was shot dead in 1929, the Courier-Journal referred to the legendary man as “a gambler, gunman, bootlegger, ruler, and terrorist of the Craw, Frankfort’s underworld.”

Sweeten the deal with Rebecca-Ruth at the $50 level. Rebecca Gooch and Ruth Hanley Booe started their candy business at the bar of the Frankfort Hotel. In 1929 Gooch sold her half of the business to Booe, who is credited with inventing the “Bourbon Ball,” a world famous confection.

Get down to business with the Lutkemeier family at the $100 level. For more than 100 years the Lutkemeier family operated a general store on the corner of Broadway and Lewis Street.

Free up some cash with Emily Tubman at the $250 level. Emily Thomas of Frankfort married a Georgia plantation owner, Richard Tubman, who died in 1836 leaving her his huge estate and a substantial inheritance. She provided for the enslaved people she inherited, sending some to Africa. She used her money to develop the Midway Orphan School, Millersburg College, and Kentucky University. She also gave over $26,000 to restore Frankfort’s First Christian Church following an 1870 fire.

Pour it on with Col. E. H. Taylor at the $500 level. He proved to be a genius in the merchandising, financing and promotion of bourbon whiskey. He established several modern distillery complexes: Old Taylor at Millville, Carlisle and O.F.C. at Leestown, and Hermitage in South Frankfort. He also served as Frankfort’s mayor and served several terms in the legislature.

Judge our cause worthy with John Marshall Harlan at the $750 level. A Frankfort attorney and an officer during the Civil War, he was appointed a justice to the U. S. Supreme Court in 1877. He was known as the Great Dissenter, especially in the field of civil rights for African American citizens.

Don’t compromise with John J. Crittenden at the $1000 level. While he was a governor of Kentucky, five times a U. S. Senator, and twice Attorney General of the U. S., he is most famous for this “Crittenden Compromise.” It included six proposals designed to preserve the Union and avoid a civil war. The compromise was defeated 25-23.