Native American Presence From The Clinch Trail
Local Native American Habitation The Pike County Historical Society has recently been allowed from a local collector to photograph a local Native American collection. All items came from an area in and/or immediately adjacent to Pike County. The bead necklace has been restrung and the stone axe rehandled. The majority of this collection originated from…
Daniel Boone
Over the past 250 years major animal traces were very noticeable across the Eastern Kentucky landscape. This particular trace is no longer used because of the change in topography on the ridge line between Floyd and Magoffin County. The Ridgeline between these two Counties is the diving boundary that separates the Levisa River and the…
Native American Occupation In Eastern Kentucky
During the five months prior to the official establishment of Bourbon County in May 1786, there had been a flurry of activity by fifty or more men in the Fayette land office to make over ninety entries for land in and adjoining the Big Sandy Valley 85 Eleven years later, in May 1797, five entries…
The Expedition Against The Shawnee Indians In 1756
The following is a transcription of a journal from Lyman C. Draper to the Virginia Historical Register And Literary Companion: Volume V, Number II, in April of 1852. All Spellings and grammar are exactly as originally transcribed and were not altered. The expedition of the Virginians against the Shawanoe Indians, in 1756, is an event…
Indian Grave Gap
Indian Grave Gap is located on top of Pine Mountain Ridge near Jenkins KY. Located across form Fish Pond Lake, Letcher County KY. Indian Gap Graves Indian Gap Graves Indian Gap Graves
The Discovery of Kentucky
The unique distinction of being the first white man to set foot on a part of America which is now known as Kentucky, had been claimed by many. It is a fact there have been almost as many so-call “discoverers” of Kentucky as there have been almost Kentuckian Historians. One English-Virginia lad should take that…
Doctor Thomas Walker – Early Explorer
Thomas Walker Bio Thomas Walker, born January 25, 1715, was the third child and second son of Thomas Walker and Susan Peachy of King and Queen County Virginia. While Thomas Walker Jr. was still a young lad he lost his father and went to live with his sister, Mary Peachy, the second wife of Dr….
FACT OR FICTION?
TALES OF LOST TREASURE have charmed people through the ages, from Oak Island to the Superstition Mountains. The valleys of the upper Big Sandy and North Fork of the Kentucky River are no exception. There is one story of hidden Appalachian riches that has survived for over 250 years. The legend revolves around the Russell…
FROM CONTINENTS TO COUNTIES
The topography of the Big Sandy country of eastern Kentucky and west/southwest Virginia has long been recognized as one of the most unconventional regions east of the Mississippi River. In reaching that state of geographic development, the watershed of the Big Sandy River has been undergoing geologic change for hundreds of millions of years. The…
