Pioneer Achievements

In 1815 Jacob Brown, born Dec. 7, 1775, and his wife Judith Walters Brown, born Dec. 8, 1781, venerable Quakers from Louden County, Virginia, purchased twenty-two hundred acres of land and established their home here. This was also the location of the historic Simon Kenton Trail, which extended from the Winchester Trail, now State Route 72, due west to Old Chillicothe. In 1786 General Benjamin Logan’s army of Kentucky pioneers camped here for one night on their march to attach the Shawnee Indians at Old Chillicothe and then to the Mack-a-Chack towns on the head waters of Mad River. Caesar’s Creek received its name here when a colored servant named Caesar, belonging to an officer on Logan’s staff, escaped during the night, crossed the creek, went on to Old Chillicothe, and warned the Indians. The waters of Caesar’s Creek powered the historic Jacob Brown Mill, which stood about fifty rods west.

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