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In 1779, Samuel Cartwright located his station here on the trail from Wilderness Road to Falls of the Ohio. Earlier, in 1774, he and Simon Kenton explored the Big Sandy-Ohio River region. After stopping for a while at Harrodsburg, he then settled here. In 1782, Kenton came here to get Col. Philemon Waters as a scout for Gen. George Rogers Clark's attack on the Indians.
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