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On December 22, 1779, Colonel John Donelson departed from Fort Patrick Henry in his flatboat “Adventure,” leading a flotilla of about 300 people in flatboats and canoes on the voyage to the Big Salt Lick on the Cumberland River, now Nashville. The party was stopped by the fall of water on the shoals at the mouth of Reedy Creek, 600 yards upstream from here. They remained there for almost 2 months, repairing their boats and waiting for the water to rise, and arrived at their destination on April 24, 1780.
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