| Show b ilk 6 W 9 far r 4 fro do I 1 C dad a t amu 0 11 L i 17 7 1 I I 1 IM 2 N d ilk ah ima A I 1 all s W 13 41 Y cl N X va C M Z V by ELMO SCOTT WATSON imagine a great parallelogram made of log cabins I 1 n s se set t end to end their common outside wall b being c I 1 the wall of 0 the fort and at the to our u corners of 0 I 1 the parallelogram the cabins jutted butted au out t with 1 ports port in the angle in order to give a flanking fire in case tho the savages reached the tha palisade and then there bere hugo huge log gates with watchtowers watch towers on an either side ide where sei sentries tries sat mat day and inight scanning canning the forest line within the fort was a big common dotted with forest trees where such cattle as had been saved browsed on the scanty cra eress s there had been but the one scrawny horse horsa before our arrival and the settlers settler sI how flow shall I 1 describe them a as th they ey crowded around ua inside th tha meribe gates bates so some n st stared ar ed at us with sallow faces aces arid and eyes brightened 1 by 11 the fever yet others had the red glow of health many of the men wore rough beards unkempt and yellow worn hunting shirts oft otten ell stained with blood the barefooted women wore eun bonnets and loose loe horne homespun spun gowns some of linen made mad e fr from 0 in nettles while th the e children swarmed litre here and there and everywhere in any co costume saume that chan chance c e had given them all seemingly talked at once they piled ed us with question after que quenion qu callon tion of the trace the the watauga settle in ments e n t 8 the news in the ca carolinas Caroll 0 nas and h how w the war we went nt of co course urse die the love of the frontier waa in the grain brain of these men but what did they tome come bade back to day after day would the sun rise over the forest and beat down upon the little enclosure in which we were penned the row of cabins leaning in g against aga dinst the stockade to chade marked the boundaries atour olour daml diminutive n stiv world beyond them invisible lurked a relentless toe foe within the greater souls alone ion w were ere calm arid and a mans mails worth was set down toa to a ila hairs tirs breadth 1 some were always to be fou found nd ua it ing on their doorsteps cursing the hour which had seen them depart tor for this land 6 some noine wrestled and fought on the common tor for A fistIng ht with a fair neld field and no favor avor was a favor ite amusement of the backwoods pien i 4 r lS otle sun wore away w bilo wi w lived f from rom lh hand nd to mouth on uch auch scanty tare fare ns as the he two of them shot and what hat we could venturo venturi to gather in th the unkempt flettia near the gate A winter of famine lurked ahead slid and men were goaded near to madott madders g at the thought though t of clearings made and corn planted in the spring within reach of their hands as it were and they might not harvest it OUCH I 1 Is the picture of tin an american scone scene years tears ago as which vanston churchill S painted in his book the crossing for if yo ou rellie remember icher that great novel of a quarter of a century ugo ago you will recall that atiat churchill wits was writing of american who in the words of arthur Gul bulterman terman abe poet built their lonely stations ons and the to logs were ere c cut u t and hewn dy by the bried breed of simon kenton and the blood of dailee boone they behind the loopholes in their rugged palisades through hot and weary sieges attacks andam and am bus cades they shot and ma made do their sallies till the shawnees broke and fled while the women charged the rilles and the wom women en shaped ahe the lead T the e women nursed the wounded and aie the w women amen watched by night i the women brought the water through the peril of the fight the mothers never faltered and the sons that then were small email grew crew as hunters of kentucky and wre were strong and brave lind and tall an and dand this till great parallelogram made of log cabins set tend end to end was the cradle of kentucky the first english settlement west of the alleghenies Alleg hanles the place which has been aptly called the jamestown Hames town of the west historic harrodsburg Harrods burg although the stirring events which took place within and around its walls are now a century centary nod a hull hall in the past that historic past still lives jo go to arg today and you will nib your eyes in astonishment for there you VOU will see these logs nod and cabins broiling in the midsummer sun much fib ah churchill has described them and as you walk through the huge log ing gates which stand invitingly open it la Is easy to 0 forget that you are living in the twentieth century Atner ien of and automobiles and airplanes and it Is 11 easy to believe that some magic has carried you blick back to that far off time when the nation was in the making F for or on the edge of the modern city of harrods burg ky izi Is a park which has fins lieen presented to the state by the citizens of Harrods harrodsburg burg As as a mei memorial norial to her pioneers and dominating all of the other reminders of the past Is 3 a heavily enclosure a replica of Ilar rods fort As you stroll across the grassy common ineida its walls it Is not difficult to people those cabins around with you yon will the pioneers who once lived and loved labored und fought and some of them died there over in that doorway stands james jame harrod atall tall massive strong active one of the handsomest handsom eat ren of his time look through ali rough them the doorway of that cabin arid and there you might see isee it young roan man tall square built sun reddened vandy candy of hair his piercing blue eyes scanning intently the papers which litter the linno hand hewn table before which he sits it la george rogers dark bark planning his conquest of the lite british forts in the illinois country from another cabin cumes comes the sound of voices in loud dispute there Is on an angry note in ibe deep coarse voice of a short thickset thick set man for hugh la Is a hot tempered annn a brave man hut but a rush rash and hosty hasty miln man as the story of the disa disastrous krous battle of blue licks testifies equally brave are joseph cowman john rloyd flod john todd and benjamin logun logan but they cannot persuade blugh mcgary and then speaks up the quiet voice olca of at another iother 1 1 42 0 W i A g le ai portraits of hamilton and dark clark from Qu alfea fela 0 the capture of old Vincen neelO courtey courtesy of bobbs merrill co photograph of tho the fort and lincoln cabin by the author 0 around whose broad mouth there to Is always tb the 0 trace of a smile and in whose blue eyes there glints always a but determined look and all of them listen tor for this man la Is daniel boone but not till of the imaginary inhabitants of harrods Harr oils fort which you might see bee are fighting men and generals and empire br builders Alders from one of the cabins comes the hum of young voices and as you jou peep through tile window you seo see the homespun clad form of sirs mrs william coomes Co onies around whom are gathered gi a group of youngsters learning their letters from paddles paddies crude reproductions of the old english horn hoolis hooks of queen time for this Is the first school west of the put before some stupid or mischievous child learns that these paddles paddies have another use tit at the hands of All mistress stress coomes let lei us its anve investigate the steady hum which comes from another faban aban vor for ther which sits anne ble Ginty atthe at the spinning wheel which she has brought with lier her over the aon long g mountain trail and slie she Is busy spinning the thread of corn buffal wool und and lint fr from m wild wild nettles les back of her stands tile ane loom looff which she has re signed elined for weaving beaving the coarse hut but warm cloth which so many of the pioneers of harrods ds station are wearing I 1 anne also experimented with nuts and barks for dyeing her goods foro for having an artistic eye eve she was not an tilled with the drab diab tones of tile the natural colors 11 one of the charming women of harrodsburg Harrods burg who net act as guides I 1 through the fort will tell fell you the rhe inner bark bari tit of white wal walnut lout produced lull jull ye yellows lloys black walnut dark browns indigo blues madder dingy reds oak purple cedar berries dove or lend lead color with these pretty colors the women made bright dresses of the ansey woolsey nod and the boman who could originate tile the most beautiful combination of colors or designs the most perfect broken plaids was a woman of note anne was rarely skillful and full of energy and so 90 soon as the indians had scalped scalded a husband abe selected at will from the waiting list before her little wonder that the elti citizen zeng of the narrows burg of today have hae taken pains to recreate recie ate tile the atmosphere mo sphere of the part and to tale take pride in the history of their city for they rave love undisputed claim to the following historic firsts the first white settlement of kentucky 1774 the first white child born in kentucky the first summer resort in kentucky the tl e first court for kentucky county the first school in kentucky the first sermon preached in Nn kentucky tucky tile the first presbyterian terian church organized in kentucky the first representative from kentucky in the continental congress the first farst elect election kin in ID tsi stucky sending george dark clark and gabriel jones to ta the virginia legislature the first sunday school organized in kentucky the first spinning wheel for making illsey dinsey the first grist gilst mill driven by water neat near Harrods harrodsburg burg tho the first racecourse rare course in kentucky tho the first manufacturing of pottery fabrics plows etc at the intersection of or two of the principal streets in harrodsburg Harrods burg stands a grat granite itte boulder bou liler with a bronze tablet bearing this inscription erected by bv tile the womans comans lull of honoring the mother town of kentucky founded june 10 16 1774 and remembering the first mothers of odthe the west to enter the wilderness mrs airs daniel hoon boone mrs bichard bilogan mrs airs hugh mccary mrs thomas 1 tenton A tribute from tie lite wn womanhood manhood of the present to the womanhood of tile past part june 10 1920 loo 0 although t lint sll inscription suggests sig gesta tile the glory of historic past it Is not until one visits the pioneer me memorial morInI state park previously referred to that lite past can be for ia or besides the replica of the fort there one finds a monument erected by tile tha same comans womans club bluh to that washington of the west george rogers clark nearly too la Is the pioneer cemetery old lort fort hill fill cemetery it la is called in which lie burled more than ROO of the pioneers of that region in front of the fort stands another reminder of the post past a log cabin which has baa a compelling interest for all visitors 1 for it la Is the log cabin in which nancy blanks lived when a girl and in which aho was married to thomas lincoln by rev hev jesse head of liar har roda burg a methodist circuit rider in this cabin which stood originally on the lincoln farm arm in washington county but which was moved to the Harrods harrodsburg burg parts park several years ago thomas thomaa lincoln and his bride livid lived for or two or three years before moving to the farm near hodgen ville where on february 12 1809 1800 this pioneer mother gave birth to the son who was destined to become one of the great men of all ti time abraham lincoln harrodsburg Harrods burg gets its right to the title of the mother town from tile the fact that on juno june 10 1774 a party of settlers led by col james harrod pitched their camp beside a big spring on its site and proceeded to lay ivy off a town there they assigned one acre in loti on puch side of the street running east and west and ten acre outlets to ench each of 0 the inhabitants they then proceeded ta to build four or five cabins on their in lots and drew diew tots lots for cabins scattered over a wide territory which were called lottery cabins soon after their arrival they were vote joined by isa isaac ac bilte a surveyor su and another party of men while they were eie busy planning the town dan daniel I 1 el boone and Alle michael bael stoner messengers from lord dunmore who had come miles in 02 days to warn the venturesome plo pioneers in kentucky th that at the indians indans were on the karpath warpath war path arrived while there hoone boone became interested in their plans and was was given a 0 lot in the new tonyai town adjoining that of rvan evan hinton iton A double log cabin was built to serve both boone and blinton and stood there until it was burned by tile the indians indiana in 1777 thus it will lip be spen seen boone had a hand in settling Harrods harrodsburg burg before he did the town which bore his name the settlers at Harrods harrodsburg burg remained there until july then as a result of the warning brought by boone and stoner returned to take part in the Iun dunmoore more war and fought in that his engage ment the battle of point pleasant on march 13 15 1775 barrod and his 1113 dettmers dett lers returned to make their permanent perma ilent settlement at harrodsburg Harrods burn burg since noce hoone boone be begun an his fort it at april apt 11 1 1775 harrodsburg Harrods burg has a priority of more than two neek over boones borough as a permanent settlement uy by sep 8 the wives and families of the flar harrode rods burg settlers lers had arrived and finding the original annl fort inadequate and scarcely as a defense from the indian attacks which were suro sure to come a second ant and larger one was built on old fort hill 11 within its narrow con confines tines that stronghold contained all rhe elements that have made kentucky ruinous famous courage and kindliness which distinguished such lenders leaders as doone boone and harrod and logan religion as practiced by rev hey john lythe and squire hoone boone who came with niblo bible in one band an ax in the other culture and statesmanship us its in jolin todd superb generalship for there george rogers dark clark planned his conquest of tile the northwest territory so reads a descriptive pamphlet of the fort situated on tile the wilderness road it was conveniently readied reached and provided a refuge for other footers when indians were on tile the warpath karpath war path brave pioneers placed their wives and children there tor safety when finable to protect them at their own forts people traveling over this wilderness road stopped there nod found cordial welcome except perhaps gen henry ham ilton called the hair buyer buier who rested there when sent in chains to williamsburg tile the captive of george dark clark fish fiat attacked it capt john ling langgin gin capt john hinkson capt john mcclelland model land C col 1 robert patterson Patt eison general logan john maxwell und and scores of others whose names adorn the pages of our pioneer history lil occupied Harr liar oils rods fort a at some time during those eventful years to them all we must accord the horion due for they came ns as flip begun tild held their ground defended VirgI virginias nIals back bach door and titi saved ived an ens em pere to tbt lin netlon tiou |
