Boone County, Kentucky, Encyclopedia


Indians Legends of Big Bone Lick http://www.oocities.org/bigbonehistory/wright-bartram.1762.html By the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition there were still Indians in the area, but the dangers from them were slight. John Taylor, the pioneer preacher, tells of seeing Indians when he lived at Corn Creek, in Gallatin County about 1802. He says: The opposite shore of the Ohio, was Indian title, and the Indians hunting on their own land about a mile from my house, but they were at peace." John Taylor, A History of Ten Baptist Churches, of Which the Author has been Alternately a Member: In which will be seen something of a Journal of the Author's Life, for more than Fifty Years. (Frankfort: 1823; rpt. Cincinnati: Art Guild, 1968), p. 115. Lewis Loder mentions a lecture on a Sunday afternoon (21 Nov 1858) by Chief Kawshawgance in the Christian church in Petersburg.


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Boone County, Kentucky, Encyclopedia