A Trip Down The Kentucky River

All Pictures Taken By Sheila Barrett
Harrodsburg is one of Kentucky’s first permanent settlement. James Harrod, a Pennsylvanian, led 31 men into Kentucky in 1774. They traveled down the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers to present-day Mercer County. On June 16, 1774 they began constructing Harrodsburg.
Boonesborough was an early settlement, famous because of it’s well-known frontiersman [...]