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The Hickory Cove

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The Hickory Cove was a hill-locked body of land discovered in 1774 by Castleton Brooks, a onetime Long Hunter, who settled there in 1775 and was killed by Indians in 1777. A fort stood there in 1775 under the command of Captain Robert Kyle.
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