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In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker, an investor in the Loyal Land Company, with five companions, made a famous exploration through the Cumberland Gap and into eastern Kentucky. The Loyal Land Company settled people in southwest Virginia, but not Kentucky. In 1769, Virginia longhunter and explorer Joseph Martin made the first of several forays into the ...
Kenton County is named for Simon Kenton, who, believing he was a fugitive, spent the mid-1770s hunting in eastern Kentucky. Longhunter James Knox named the Dix River after Cherokee leader Captain Dick, who gave Knox permission to hunt along the river in 1770. [19]
Kentucky Route 1770 is a 9.624-mile-long (15.488 km) rural secondary highway in eastern Lincoln County. The highway begins at US 150 (John Sims Highway) east of Rowland. KY 1770 follows Old US 150 southeast to KY 3177, which continues east on Old US 150 while KY 1770
Kentucky Route 1770. 1 language. Bân-lâm-gú ... List of Kentucky supplemental roads and rural secondary highways (1500–1999)#KY 1770; This page is a redirect.
Henry Skaggs (January 8, 1724 – December 4, 1810. Occasional alternative spellings: "Skeggs" and "Scaggs") was an American longhunter, explorer and pioneer, active primarily on the frontiers of Tennessee and Kentucky during the latter half of the 18th century.
Bledsoe's Station, also known as Bledsoe's Fort, was an 18th-century fortified frontier settlement located in what is now Castalian Springs, Tennessee.The fort was built by longhunter and Sumner County pioneer Isaac Bledsoe (c. 1735–1793) in the early 1780s to protect Upper Cumberland settlers and migrants from hostile Native American attacks.
Kentucky built a replica of the cabin which his expedition put up in present-day Kentucky; it has been designated as the Dr. Thomas Walker State Historic Site. Thomas Walker High School is one of two high schools in Lee County, Virginia. It is located one mile east of the town of Ewing, and three miles west of the town of Rose Hill.
KY 1273 east (Chrisman Lane) Western end of KY 1273 overlap KY 1273 west (Airport Road) Eastern end of KY 1273 overlap: Lincoln KY 3248 – Hubble: Stanford: KY 300: US 27 – Lancaster, Stanford KY 78 – Stanford KY 1770 (Old US 150) KY 1369 – William Whitley House State Historic Site KY 2750 – Crab Orchard KY 643 KY 39 – Crab Orchard ...