Submitted by Lynn Greene
Effingham, KS. Aug 13, 1885
L. C. Draper:
I never knew where Boone's Fort was on Station Camp Creek in Estill County, Ky.
There was a fort on the Red Lick fork of Station Creek-about 4 miles from its mouth- at a place known as Beaverponds. This fort discovered by Joseph W. Pearson, who purchased the land of Green Clay. Pearson was farming the land. The plow struck the timbers. This was since my recollection . The timbers was all gone--- Some underground. That plainly indicated that they had been put there by man in a kind of circle. About 2 miles above this fort was a flat rock that projected over a deep hole of water from the north bank of said Red Lick Creek. This rock was known as Boone's Rock- it was said that Boone shot an Indian on this rock while the Indian was fishing. Don't know which side of the creek Boone was on. I have been on that rock. I have forgotten many things my father and old settlers told me about Boone.
I have a faint recollection about hearing of the man scaling the clift and getting away from the Indians.
About thirty years ago, 3 skeletons was taken out of a hugh pile of rock under a clift near the mouth of Doe Creek on the Kentucky River. I saw all of their skulls and backbones. They ----- bound in a sitting position the backs against the clift. Never had been wet. One of their skulls had a scar in the back that had been made with a hatchet and had healed up. This was a long head and ----low in -------- savage -----.
I saw an old man in Powell's Valley, Virginia in 1838 before I was grown by the name of Clark who gave me much information about Boone and his fort in Kentucky. Boone started to Kentucky from Chadwick's Fort in Powell's Valley, and then ----- his supply of powder - from the fort. Clark told of one of his trips to Boone's head quarters in Kentucky, the Indians were so thick and blood thirsty that Boone would not let his men sleep- unlike in a ------- in a fort. Clark told of swimming the Cumberland River to get away from Indians. Boone was with him.
M. R. Benton
Draper Manuscripts, Boone Papers, 69 (1) through 69 (3)
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