Butler's Landing / Bailey Butler

In 1773, Daniel Boone followed an old game and Indian trail to where two creeks flowed into the Cumberland River, called them the Twin or Double Creeks in his journal, and spent the winter on the bluff now known as the Seven Sisters below what is now Butler's Landing at the mouth of Mill Creek and Dry Fork Creek. In 1820, Congress established the fourth post road at Butler's Landing. During the War of 1812, Bailey Butler, born 1779 and died 1842, was an early 19th-century pioneer of Clay County, then Jackson County, and a captain in the West Tennessee Volunteer Militia who fought in the Battle of Talladega under Andrew Jackson. In 1831, Butler became the first postmaster of the place that became known as Butler's Landing. The first county court met nearby in 1871 on land first owned and operated by Bailey Butler and his family, who built houses, a large log store, and operated a river ferry and landing site on the Cumberland River where Mill Creek and Dry Fork Creek join it.

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