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or it roes begin to drop before day | from Rockcastle river, i rel.up,! ire-1 and a ry -ley! its'“Long Hunters” Follow Or. Walker; Name Rockcastle River In US?anyredonrial,inlyAs Dr. wandering1 Kentucky, preparingThomasthroughpauy of i of the eo ventured i and were the dead and relati gathered 1 and laid Uthem hadWalker was that part; returning to near Rac- s^n was5 a\ Southeastern coon Springs?, where he remained'‘■The ccrChristopher Gist was N after Christmas, at wind-feast l£^ P oist 'yasj]lc hatl S6 buffalo marrow bones,lo go down the Ohio u rcUn.n-mlt;r home willi “Long ' *' bliver to find a settlement in Ken-.QS_ tueky for the Ohio Company. JohnHunters.'placed thecovered 0*escFindleyoseto• Ohio infollowed Gist down 1752 and again in. Their principal camp was calledjmanner as^|Station Camp, and was upon what circumstar •Iwas called in early times Station conductedlin-rcryand Thomas Bullitt and a party °fic Crc(.k but now callCiI Rob-:to Crab O surveyors reached the Falls /£ jinson,s creek. This company graves, tvthe Ohio in 1753. But S™t=r(rcachctl Kentucky in 1770.” This|are plainl.numbers of explorers and hunters;t .T :ruutatirn is from a statement■ marks uplt;came into this now land through,n 18lt;!S hy Ro1)Crt Wickliffe, y, all ofCumberland Gap, and practically;sntl alt returned overland, mostlywn uld unt incy t of if a uponthrough the Gap. Dr. William Allen Pusey says that Samuel Harrod and Michael Stoner were in Southeastern Kentucky in 1767.Raccoon Springs And Tho Long HuntersThe Long Hunters, of which Col. James Knox, and Jos. Drake andSr.r celebrated attorney and poliU- land, nevecian, to Dr. Draper, and included in his Historical Sketches, 1024 by Judge William Ayers, Finevillc, Ky. Judge Ayers adds that 170G is probably a more accurate date, and that accompanying Knox on the trip were Skaggs, for whom Skaggs creek is named (Also Skaggs Trace);up or cult The un foregoing, what is n tion (Far: James1 the Defeat Henry 0f said st; years of T ,aurel cmHenry Skaggs were leaders, killed .Gasper (°r Kasper) Manskcr,sses oth-/ery i is the and ft to and ificd i a :iver j we been fore, n a the i be-great numbers of animals on Cum-! Joseph Drake and others named berland and Green, rivers, cacheing Baker, Gordon and Bledsoe, it alliver,the furs for more convenient times to carry them back to the Settlements.They left behind the name of Station Camp attached to a number of places and creeks. Dr. L. C. Draper reported how in 1767 Isaac Llnday, who with four others from South Carolina hunting in Kentucky came to Rockcastle river which he so named from aindicates the importance of Raccoon Springs, in Laurel county, even in those early years.New Stage Route To LivingstonMrs. J VersioMrs. Jc Levi Jacl ing, whiciWm. Lovelace, Jr. and J. R. Hardin, contractors on the London ro-jto Livingston mail route, contem-!of Jsham Dicie, cor McNitt's over this C“There in camp.mantle appearing rock, through .plated establishing a stage coach central Iof which the waters froze in columns below. In 1768, James Knox gavethe fissures dripped andlino to that terminal on April 1, 1881, On June 10th they advertised that the linfc was inDick's (Now spelled Dix) river‘service, Previously they had op-its name for the friendly Indian eraled a stage Hue between Crab who led him to good hunting in .Orchard and Rockcastle Springs.in the halevery nij been mob their com thought t (Continue
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London Sentinel Echo
London, Kentucky, US
Thu, Feb 06, 1919
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