Big Bone Lick State Park
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Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. Mammoths are believed to have been drawn to th
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Statue of a woolly mammoth stuck in the soft earth, showing how the fossils were created.
Anatomist William Hunter suggested in 1768 that this mastodon tooth came from an extinct type of carnivorous elephant.
1807 letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Rogers Clark requesting that the bones Rogers had collected at Big Bone Lick be packed and shipped to a New Orleans collector, who would then forward them to Washington.
Mary Draper Ingles
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Mary Draper Ingles, also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia. In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among se
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…Gist is referring to Robert Smith, an Indian trader, who may have visited Big Bone Lick as early as 1744. Mary Draper Ingles, a frontier settler, was captured by Shawnee Indians on July 30, 1755, and taken to Lower Shawneetown. After two weeks there, she was taken to Big Bone…
Statue of Mary Draper Ingles included in the Virginia Women's Monument.
Log cabin next to the New River, near present-day Radford, Virginia, where Mary Draper Ingles and her husband William lived out their lives. Photo c.1890
A captive runs the gauntlet between Shawnee warriors.
A postcard of Ingles Ferry, ca. 1908