Jeannette Holland Austin·Jun 18, 2024How Kentucky Pioneers Crossed the Western FrontierThe safest means of crossing the western frontier was with groups. Many families who settled in Kentucky traversed the mountains with their…
Jeannette Holland Austin·Jun 16, 2024The Story of Being Captured by IndiansElizabethtown is situated in Hardin County, Kentucky, on the southern slope of Muldraughs Hill and Severn’s Valley Creek, a Nolin branch…
Jeannette Holland Austin·Jun 15, 2024Brave Families Settled in Kentucky After the Revolutionary WarAfter the Revolutionary War, Indians came to Kentucky with the buds of spring, and it was not long before all of Fayette County and the…
Jeannette Holland Austin·Jun 14, 2024Families were Attracted to the Heavy Timbers of Franklin County, KentuckyBefore its settlement, all of Franklin County, Kentucky, was heavily timbered with oak, poplar, sugar trees, walnuts, &c. In the summer of…
Jeannette Holland Austin·Jun 14, 2024Memories of “Stringtown on the Pike in Kentucky”Everyone has memories of growing up. The hometown story or adventure may not be exciting, yet it is reminiscent of an earlier time when we…
