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"At
any rate, it was a Boone who began the settlement of
Shelby County Territory; for most accredited
historians agree that the first of Shelby's peculiarly
large number of Stations was that of the 'Painted
Stone', established in 1779, by Squire Boone, a
younger brother of Daniel and that his and his
associates' lives are those which etched in Shelby
soil the first tragic traces of its start toward
civilization." -
excerpted from George L. Willis' "History of
Shelby County". "Among
the other frontier land seekers who visited Shelby
County was Daniel's brother, Squire Boone. He
deposed that: 'In the summer in the year 1775 I
this deponant came to the place where Boone's Station
on clear creek was since built I then made a small
Improvement about one quarter of a mile North of where
the old mill at said Boone's Station now stands in the
spring of 1776, I came again to the same place and
took a stone out of the creek and with a mill pick
picked my name in full and the date of the year
thereon, and with red paint I painted the letters
& Figures all red from which stone this Tract of
Land Took the name of the painted Stone tract, the
said stone is about one Inch thick and eighteen Inches
Long & wide.'" -
excerpted from "The New History of Shelby County,
Kentucky" published by the Shelby County
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