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On July 16th, 1773, James McAfee, George McAfee, Robert McAfee, James McCoun, Jr., Samuel Adams, and Hancock Taylor, following the Buffalo Trace from Big Bone Lick, crossed the Kentucky River at this point and made the first survey upon it. Here in the summer of 1775, Hancock Lee, Willis Lee, Cyrus McCracken and a few comrades established Lee's Town, where George Rogers Clark lived for a time and expected to make his home. Here Willis Lee was killed by Indians in 1776, and the settlement temporarily scattered, but by 1789 it was flourishing and an important stopping place for travelers on the river and for those who followed the buffalo trace.
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Frankfort, Kentucky · United States