Paint Lick in Garrard County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)
Fort Paint Lick
Photographed by Don Morfe, July 21, 2013
1. Side 1 - Fort Paint Lick Marker
Side 1:
500 ft. north is site of log fort and stockade built by Lt. Col. Wm. Miller. Born in Virginia, he came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone's party and helped mark a trace to Boonesboro; served with Capt. James Estill in Battle of Little Mountain. Miller surveyed land for the fort in 1776. Other early settlers were George Adams, Wm. Champ, and Alexander Denny. Over.
Side 2:
Fort Paint Lick - First settlers found Indian signs painted on trees along creek banks and around the nearby salt lick. They gave settlement the name of Paint Lick. The fort was built over a spring that was entered by steps leading down to it. Jinney Adams was killed by Indian Chief Thunder in 1791. She is buried in the first marked grave in fort cemetery. See over.
Erected 1975 by Kentucky Historical Society-Kentucky Department of Highways. (Marker Number 1526.)
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Indigenous Peoples and Communities • War, French and Indian. In addition, it is included in the Kentucky Historical Society series list.
Location. 37° 37′ N, 84° 24.5′ W. Memorial is in Paint Lick, Kentucky, in Garrard County. It is on Richmond
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Regionally, this memorial is in Kentucky’s The Knobs. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture and also the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Paint Lick Presbyterian Church/Paint Lick Cemetery (approx. 2.6 miles away); Madison Hemp And Flax Co. / Hemp in Kentucky (approx. 3.8 miles away); Bradley Kincaid (approx. 4.4 miles away); Berea A Birthplace of the Handicraft Revival (approx. 5½ miles away); Kentucky's Earliest Artforms (approx. 5½ miles away); Walker Foxhounds (approx. 5.6 miles away); Site of Boyhood Home of Red Foley / Clyde Julian "Red" Foley (approx. 6.2 miles away); Middletown Consolidated School (approx. 6.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paint Lick.
Photographed by Don Morfe, July 21, 2013
2. Side 2 - Fort Paint Lick Marker
Photographed by Don Morfe, July 21, 2013
3. Fort Paint Lick Marker
Photographed by Brandon Fletcher, March 31, 2012
4. Fort Paint Lick Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on August 18, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 2,483 times since then and 164 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 18, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. 4. submitted on September 23, 2015, by Brandon Fletcher of Chattanooga, Tennessee. • Al Wolf was the editor who published this page.
