Register your Kentucky Colonel Commission to learn your rights, gain special privileges and become part of history.
The Authority and Empowerment of the Kentucky Colonel is based in American Common Law; is made a reality through taking cooperative non-political peer-reviewed actions that are recognized by government and society. Too many leaders in the room is never an obstacle for the Kentucky Colonel Cooperative, here forevermore through the remanifestation of the Transylvania Company.
The Transylvania Company is a cooperative nonprofit pursuit to discover "Old Kentucky" colonial history, practice common-law social values and protect the intellectual property of Old Kentucky Heritage as it might exist today. As a cooperative our work will involve investments in producing new economic opportunities in the area of the preservation of our natural heritage, promotion of tourism, outdoor recreation, and other socioeconomic development. The activities of the cooperative will also focus on souvenir parcels and suppletory deeds using small parcels of land or monuments at tourism destinations. The cooperative system is being implemented because it provides colonels with a very equal playing field that is democratic in nature.
December 2024 - The Transylvania Company (the cooperative) will provide ID cards, badges and nameplates to its employees during 2023. Kentucky Colonel Badges and Kentucky Colonel Nameplates will not be available until March of 2025.
To obtain an ID card a member needs to be enrolled and paying dues in the cooperative for a minimum of 30 days with a a $100 or greater investment after signing the cooperative agreement and elaborating a work profile.
The entire communications network is based on a Virtual Workplace and the use of Google Workspace (this step of the enrollment is the most challenging involving the use of their electronic IDaaS (Identity as a Service) credential.
Employees are required to complete several information and knowledge quizzes that will define and demonstrate their competency and character.
Kentucky Colonel Cooperative is not our name, but it is a term that describes ethically what we are officially forming in 2025! The cooperative service organization in formation will be empowered with the same legal "rights, privileges and responsibilities" of the Kentucky Colonel under the same unwritten honorable code of ethics and moral obligations as the First Pioneer Colonels of Old Kentucky (descriptive origin) from 1775-1792 also known as "Old Kentucky".
Kentucky Colonel Cooperative (News Release).pdf