Show arro dX b 00 SAO W J i ito ric fla sib OPAL ah L A rk MI 0 m 0 pr NE nn 1 1 7 10 T 6 ta 4 p 4 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON imagine a great parallelogram made of tog log cabins cabin in set sat end to end their corenon outside wall being th the I 1 wa wall I 1 of 0 the f ort and at the four our corners of the parallelogram the cabins jutted butted out ports in the angle in order to al give ve a flanking tiro in case cats the savages reached the palisade and then t here there ware 0 huge 10 log g gates with watch watchtowers towers on ea either her side where sentries sot sat day and night scanning canning 1 the he i forest 0 r at line within the tort fort was a big coram cominos 0 n dotted doted with forest trees where cattle BB as had been saved browsed on the scanty gross brass there had been but the one scrawny horse before our arrival ours and the settlers how shall I 1 describe them as aa they crowdell crowded around us inside the gates gatea some mt stared ired at us with sallow faces nd eyes brightened b by y the fever ever yet others had the red glow of health lany hany of the men wore rough unkempt and yellow vellow borri hunting shirts often ned with blood the barefooted women wore eun oun bonnets and loose h homespun homespun gowns gown some of linen ma made from nettles while e th the children childre ii swarmed here and there and everywhere in any co costume that cinac cin chance nc had glan them all AH a eem bingly talked it at t one once th they y plied piled us ua with question after q question les tion of the trace the tha watauga bott settle ments the news in the ca carolinas Caroll bolinas ro linas nas and how th the war var went ot of course of odthe thi front frontier lerl was waa in them the j grain of these in men en cut but what did they come back bach to day al alerway adfer erday day would the sun suii rise over the I 1 lore forest ta and beat down upon the little enclosure in which we were penned the row of cabins leaning against the oto stockade cleade marked the boundaries boun daile ov of our d diminutive 1 minu tive world beyond them invisible au lurked r koa a relentless se too toe within the greater souls alone were calm end and a mans mahs worth was set bet down to a hara breadth some soine wore were always to be found squatting squatting on their doorsteps cursing the hour hat had seen them depart tor for th this I 1 a a and nd sonie wrest wrestled d and fought on the common for a flat fist fight 11 g ht wl with fir a f fair air held field and no favor was a favorito favorite amusement of the backwoodsmen backwoods men i ao a ahe abes summer amer wore away while we lived live dirom from hand to mouth on such scanty tare fare as aa iho two of thern them shot and what we venture ventur to rather gather in th the unkempt fields near the gate A winter 0 of f famine lurked ahead nod and men were goaded nen near r to t 0 mad r 1 pa 18 8 at the tha thought of clearings made and corn p planted I 1 ant e d I 1 in n the spring within reach of their hands asit as it were and they might not harvest it A am buil Is the picture of tin american scene years ago which winston churchill painted ted in book tile thu crossing for kj if you iou remember that gieni novel of a quarter of a century ngo ago yo ii will 1 that churchilll W was as writing ot of those american who h in the lillor words Is ot of arthur Gul teiman the ille poet built their lonely stations abid and the logs log were re edt and hewn by th the e breed of simon kenton and the blood of ia banel P jel boone theys they abood t od behind the 68 loopholes in their rugged g gea pal palisades Esades 1 1 through gh hot and weary sieges attacks abd am bus cades they shot and ann made do their mallies till the shawnees broke and fled d 1 while the w women charged h aires tide alie rifles a and the women women a hafi edl the lead the women burned the wounded and the women v watched a by night th jhb w women om brought the water through the peril of the fight the mothers never faltered and the sons that then were small mail grew as hu hunters aters ol of kentucky Cen lucky and were strong and br brave and 1 l t tall all and this great parallelogram made of log calif cabins na set bet end soend to end was the cradle of jot kentucky the first english settlement west of the tile tha place which tins has been aptly called the Hames jamestown town of the west historic Alth although althous the stirring events which took place within and around its walls ore are now a century and a half in the past that historic past still lives go to today and you will rub your eyes in astonishment ast for there yo you u will see these toga logs and cubing cabins broiling in the mN summer sun much at af has described them and lis as you walk through the huge log ing gates which stand invitingly open it la Is easy to forget that you arc living in tile the twentieth century america of and automo bues biter and airplanes and it Is easy to believe that some bome magle hns has carried you hack back to that far off time when the tin nation tion vas avas tn in tile the making for on the edge of the modern city of harrods burs burg kyi ky Is a park which has lino been presented to the state by tile the citizens of at ns as a memorial a to tier her pioneers and dominating nil of the other reminders of the past Is s it a heavily enclosure a replica of ads fort As you stroll stoll across across the graisy grassy common inside inalda its walls it Is got dot difficult to people those biose around with you with the pioneers who once lived and oved loved labored and fought and some of them died there over in that doorway stands james tall massive strong active dignified one of tile the handsomest ren of tits ills time look through the doorway doom ay of that vable and there you might face a young nian man tall square betit sun reddened sandy or of hair his tile bw blua eyes ees scanning intently the papers litter the hand hewn table before which he sits it is a george rogers lark clark pla his conquest of the lie forts in the illinois country F binm rom another cabin tomes the sound of voices tn in loud dispute there Is an aa angry note in the deep coarse voice oce of a short abort thickset thick set man for hugh nica mccary ury la is a hot tempered man a brave man but hu a rash and hosty hasty man as the story etory of tile disastrous battle of blue acl testifies equally arave are joseph bow man bolm floyd john todd asid Beti jamIn logan but they thay cannot persuade hugh mccary and then speaks up the quiet voice of another MV p 2 portraits 0 of f hamilton and dark Clark from Qu alfei fels the capture of old courtey courtesy of if bobbs co photographs Photograph a of the th fort and lincoln cabin by the author around whose broad mouth there to is always the trace ofa smile and in whose blue eyes there glints always a kindl under but determined look and ana all of them listen for vila this min man Is daniel boone but not dot all of 0 the imaginary inhabitant a of oc narrows nar flar rods fort which yau you might see aee aro are fighting men men and ge generals gerals and empire builders from one of the cabins comes the hum of young voices and as aou ou peep through the window you see the homespun clad form of mrs airs william coomes around whom are gathered a group of youngsters learning their letters from paddles crude reproductions of the old english horn borri hooks of queen elizabeths time for tills this Is the first school west of the but before some stupid or mischievous child learns that these paddles paddies have another tise at the hands 0 of f mistress coomes tet let iii us investigate the steady hum which comes from another cabin fortiere For there sits anne mcginty ai at the he spinning wheel whee which she bhe has brought with tier her over the long ions mountain trall trail ardice ar and dihe she Is busy spinning the thread of combination wool and lint from wild nettles bahof badelt of her stands tile loom which she has haa resigned for weaving the coarse auf hu warm cloth which vo so miny many of the plon pioneers ceni of harrods station are wearing anne it also so experimented ed wl tb nuts and and barks tor for dyeing tier her goods fori haying having pla an artistic eye she was not satisfied atis fied with the drab tones of the natural natural colors colori one ne of the charming women of f who act as gu guides I 1 des ih rough the fort will tell you the inner bark of white walnut produced lull jull yellows yellow 6 1 black walnut dark browns indigo blues madder dingy reds oak purple cedar her berries rles dove or loid lid c color 0 lor with these pretty colors the women made night blight dresses of the linsey woolsey and the yoman who could originate the most beautiful combination of colors or the most perfect brokers bro keri plaids was a woman of pote dote anne was rarely skillful a and full of energy and so soon as the indians indiana had bad scalped scalded a his husband baill she selected at will from the waiting list before tier her little wonder that the citizens of the flar harrods rods burs burg of today have taken pains to in ree recreate reate the atmosphere mo sphere of tile the patt past and to inke pride in the history of their city vot for they have fave undisputed claim to the following historic firsts the first white settlement of kentucky 1774 the first nolte child born in kentucky the qu first summer resort in n kentucky the first brat court tor for kentucky county the first brat school in kentucky the first sermon preached to in kentucky tile the first presbyterian church organized I 1 in Ren kentucky tucky the first representative from kentucky in the continental congress the first election lin kentucky sending george bogers dark clark and gaball Gabr ll 1 jones to the virginia le legislature I slature the first school organized in kentucky the rhe first spinning wheel for ranking maring tansey th arst first grist mill nill driven by water near the first race course in iii Ren kentucky tuck y the first manufacturing of pottery fabrics plows etc I 1 at tile alie intersection 0 ot twe of the he principal streets in fit Harrods harrodsburg burg stands a a gra raalte tilte boulder with g a bronce tablet hearing bearing this inscription erected Krec ted by the club of V honoring the mother alother town of kentucky founded june 10 16 1 and remembering the first hint mothers bers of the west to enter the wilderness airs daniel boone mrs richard hogan mrs hugh Alc mcenry Gary mrs airs thomas denton demon A tribute from the womanhood of the present rent to the he womanhood hoo of the past june 10 1020 11 although that simple inscription suggests the glory of historic past it Is not until one visits the pioneer memorial state park previously ri referred jerred to that HIP past cud can be visualized for the replica of the fort there one finds ends a monument erected by the silme same comans womans Won inns club to that washington of the west george clark nearly tot ton Is the pioneer cemetery old vort fort hilt hill cemetery it Is called in which lie ile burled more than of the plon pioneers ceis of that region ri glon in front of the fort stands another reminder of the past a log cabin which has a compelling interest for all visitors V r for it is the log cabin in which nancy danles lived when a girl and in which she was waa married to thomas lincoln by bev jesse head of harrods burg a methodist circuit rider in this cabin which i stood originally on the lincoln farm arm in washington county but which was moved to the park several years ago thomas lincock had and his bride lived for two or three ceaf acara S before moving to the farm near hodgen valle where on february 12 this pioneer mother gave birth to the son alo was destined to become one of the great men of till all time abraham lincoln harrodsburg Harrods burg gets its right to the title of the mother town from ahe fact that on june 10 1774 a party of bf settlers led by col james barrod pitched their camp beside a bis big spring on it its site and proceeded to lay off a tun town there they assigned assign edone one acre in lott loti on euch side of the street running east bast and west anif ancl ten acre out tots lots to ench each of the inhabitants they then pro ceedee to build tour four or 01 five cabins on their in lots lota and drew lots for cabi cabins a a be A Q d over a wide territory which were vere called totter lottery cabins soon after aften their arrival they were joined by isaac bilte a surveyor su and another party of men while they wera ere busy planning the town daniel boone and alach michael net stoner messer mess gers rigers from lord lord Dun inore who had ad come miles in 02 62 days daya to warn the olon pioneers cers in kentucky that the indians indiana were on the warpath karpath war path arrived while there boone became interested tn in their heir plans and was given a lot int in the n new j fon town adjoining that of E avan van hinton A do double u bleb log arthin was built to serve both boo boone ile and illston and stood there until it was vrna burned by the indians in 1777 thus it will be seen boone lind a hand in settling before lie he did the town which bore his name qia settlers at Harrods harrodsburg burg remained there until luly then na as a result of the warning brought by boone and stoner returned to take part in tile Di denmore tilmore war and fought in that his bis torte engagement the battle of point pleasant on bearch barcli 13 15 1775 harrod and his settlers returned to make their ll 11 permanent per manett settlement at since boone began his fort at april 1 1775 Harrods birg has baa a priority of more than two weeke over boones borough as a permanent settlement by sep 8 tl all a wives and families of the burg settlers had find arrived and finding the original fort inadequate and scarcely safo safi lis as a defense atoni the indian attacks which were sure sura to come fl a second and larger one was built on old rort fort faill mil within tta its narrow confines that ded strong stronghold hold contal contained ned all the elements that have made kentucky famous courage and kindliness which distinguished such lenders leaders 1 ag as boone and barrod and logan religion inu as practiced by rev john lythe lithe and squire boone who came with bible in obe one hand band no nn ax in IB the other culture and statesmanship us as exemplify d in jolin john todd superb generalship for there george rogers clark planned tits his conquest of the northwest territory so reads beads a descriptive pamphlet of the fort situated on tile the wilderness rondi it was con reached and provi provided aed d a refuge for other footers when indians were on oil the war karpath warpath path brave plon pioneers Vers placed heir nivea and children there for safety when unable to protect them at their own tot forts to people traveling over tills this wilderness nond ilond stopped there and found cor dial welcome except perhaps por hips gen henry ailara ilton chilled called the hair buyer who rested there when sent in chains to the of george rogers clark blaek black fish attacked it cadt john ling langgin gin capt john Il Inkson capt john Ale mcclelland Clelland col robert paterson general logan john maxwell Mii ell and scores of others whose names adorn the pages or of our pioneer history occupied lahroda lar roda fort at some bome time during those prent eventful ful years to them all we must accord nc ord the llie honor due for they came as tin the revolution evolution li begun began b ald ld their ground defended VirgIn back door and saved raved aj an era pire to tile the nation |