About 1800, Big Harp's head was displayed here as a warning to outlaws after Big (Micajah) and Little (Wiley) Harp murdered a mother and child in a cabin west of Dixon and were pursued to Muhlenberg County, where Big Harp was shot. The Harps and their wives had roamed Kentucky in 1798-99 on a crime spree, and Little Harp was later executed in Miss.