Some
Early Settlers
Charles C. Black,
a wagon maker
and horse trader,
born in Madison
County, near Richmond.
As a young
man, Charles left
Kentucky for South
Carolina. In
1818, he married Jane
Roach, who was
previously married
to Jesse Cox.
By 1821, Charles had
returned to Kentucky
with his bride
and purchased
land on North Elkhorn
three miles from
the forks. Charles
became well known
for his fine horse
flesh. After
living in South Carolina for
a number of years,
Charles Black had
established
relationships with local
plantation owners,
who became some
of his best customers.
Charles drove
his horses South,
a practice he
continued to his
death in 1839.
JOHN
HENRY BURDIN, is listed on Franklin
County census
1880-1910 in the
Forks of Elkhorn
District.
William Haydon,
established his
station on the
Kentucky River at the mouth of Yeatman's Branch. In 1776
he built a cabin
and raised a crop of
corn. William
married Ann Ballard and
had at least three
known children.
Daniel James a
cabinet maker from
Virginia, was
born about 1750. Daniel
appears on the
Franklin County tax
list August 1800.
He lived on a farm
at Haydon's Station
with his wife,
Sarah Richard,
and their six children.
Daniel and Sarah
were members of the
Mount Pleasant
Church. In 1824, he
sold his farm
at Haydon's Station to
Benjamin
Branham.
John Lewis was
born about 1784 to
Zachary and Ann
Terrell Lewis of
Virginia. In
1808, he married Jean
Wood Daniel.
They came to Woodlake,
where for many
years ran a school at
Llangollen.
Their son Caldwallader,
was a minister,
who preached
throughout the
county. He played an
important part
in the organization of
the Providence
Baptist Church, where
he was a minister
from 1858 to his
death in
1882.
Anthony Lindsay
was born in 1736. He
married Rachel
Nellie Dorsey in 1758.
He brought his
family to Kentucky in 1784 and settled at Haydon's
Station.
Hugh Macklin was
in Kentucky on the
Elkhorn by 1801.
His family was of
Irish descent,
migrating to Franklin
County from Maryland.
His son A. W.
Macklin operated
a slaughter and pork
packing
house.
Bennett Pemberton,
son of Charles and
Sarah Pemberton,
migrated from
Caroline County,
Virginia to Woodford
County, Kentucky.
Bennett and his wife
Mary Tureman
Georgetown Road across
from the Silver
Lake farm of the Black
Family. In
1803 they sold their land to
Samuel Moxley
and moved to the Benson area of Franklin
County.
Nathaniel Sanders,
Sr. was born in 1742 to Hugh and Catherine Sanders
of
Spottsylvania
County, Virginia. Nat
established at
mill at the forks in 1789.
It ceased operation
by 1809. And in
1792, Nathaniel
petitioned the Franklin
a new mill on
the North Elkhorn. In the
old Franklin County
deeds Sanders's
tavern and fish
dam are mentioned.
The old road
connecting the forks with
the
Frankfort-Versailles Road was known
Sanders Mill and
Steele Ferry Road.
Some years later
Nathaniel moved to
Gallatin County,
where he died in 1826.
James Tate migrated
from Augusta
County, Virginia.
He married Mary Lloyd
and had children;
Elizabeth, THOMAS
L.,
who married Mrs.
Nancy Taylor Gray,
Arminta, Sally
and Martha. His in-laws,
the Lloyd's, were
living between the
forks and Woodlake
in 1796.
Reverend John
Taylor, known as
"Daddy Taylor",
was born in 1752. He
was the son of
Lazarus and Anna
Bradford Taylor.
John married Elizabeth
Kavanaugh of Orange
County, Virginia in
1782. They
came to Kentucky and
settled for a
few months on Gilbert's
Creek in Woodford
County. Taylor was
a preacher in
the area for years.
Cemeteries
Bartlett-Featherston Graveyard
A small cemetery located at Switzer
near
the railroad crossing at the Forks of
Elkhorn.
FRENCH
CEMETERY
This cemetery is located about 2 miles
on
U. S. 460 East on the Georgetown
Road.
TAYLOR
CEMETERY
Locate on the Macklin farm at the
Forks
of Elkhorn.
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Elkhorn
The Forks of Elkhorn
is located at the forks of the Elkhorn Creek a few
miles
east of Frankfort.
The area borders the counties of Woodford and
Scott.
Situated in a
bend of the Kentucky River, the Elkhorn became a main
source
of navigation
for early settlers to this area. In 1819, the Legislature
approved
an act to establish
a group of men to survey the conditions and improve
navigation on
the Elkhorn.
Legend has it,
once there was an Indian maiden in love with a young
brave,
although she was
betrothed to his father, the chief. The young
brave,
determined that
she was his, wrapped her in his blanket. They
mounted
the back of a
friendly elk and fled. They rode for days, always pursued
by
the angry chief.
When they reached Kentucky the elk was shot by the
old
chief's arrow.
As the elk lay dying, he used his horns as a shield and
the
chief gave up
the pursuit. The young couple would spend their lives in
this
valley. As
years passed, the elks horns sank into the ground
forming
indentations that
filled with a flowing stream of water the Indians
called
Elkhorn.
Property
Owners in Forks of Elkhorn Precinct,
Including
Duckers, Switzer, Woodlake and Jett
Name |
Post Office |
Place of
Birth |
Occupation |
Settlement
Date |
Acreage |
| Ayres,
E. W. |
Duckers |
Woodford
County,Ky |
Farm
& Horse Breeder |
1875 |
445 |
| Bedford,
H. |
Duckers |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farm
& Stock Raiser |
1851 |
240
1/4 |
| Bedford,
S. |
Spring
Station |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farm
& Stock Raiser |
1852 |
224 |
| Bedford,
T. H. |
Duckers |
Bourbon
County, Ky |
Farm
& Horse Breeders |
1848 |
153 |
| Black,
S. |
Frankfort |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farm
& Coal Dealer |
1827 |
343 |
| Bowen,
J. H. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farm
& Stock Raiser |
1855 |
260 |
| Brown,
A. D. |
Duckers |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farm
& Stock Raiser |
1857 |
226 |
| CARTER,
B. D. |
Switzer |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farm
& Stock Raiser |
1853 |
100 |
| CARTER,
J. A. |
Switzer |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farm
& Stock Raiser |
1814 |
330 |
| CARTER,
J. W. |
Switzer |
Scott
County, Ky |
Farm
& Flour/Feed Dealer |
1829 |
87 |
| Coharn,
G. W. |
Woodlake |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Merchant
& Blacksmith |
1840 |
4 |
| Donaven,
C. |
Woodlake |
County
Cork, Ireland |
Gatekeeper |
1859 |
|
| Donaven,
Maggie |
Woodlake |
Pennsylvania |
Gatekeeper |
1853 |
|
| Frazier,
J. C. |
Woodlake |
Fayette
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1859 |
134 |
| French.
J. W. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1823 |
203 |
| Head,
B. F. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Scott
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1838 |
63 |
| HOLTON,
J. A. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1856 |
162 |
| Holton,
J. L. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1859 |
56 |
| Hopkins,
G. W. |
Switzer |
Scott
County, Ky |
Miller |
1880 |
4 |
| Hughes,
G. C. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Mercer
County, Ky |
Merchant |
1852 |
22 |
| Hughes,
J. W. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1836 |
300 |
| Jones,
B. F. |
Switzer |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1832 |
172 |
| Jones,
J. J. |
Woodlake |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1838 |
101 |
| Lewis,
W. H. |
Woodlake |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
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| Lewis,
W. J. |
Woodlake |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1840 |
|
| Lucas,
M. B. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Scott
County, Ky |
Farmer
& Tobacco Dealer |
1865 |
120 |
| McDowell,
H. C. |
Woodlake |
Bottetourt
County, Va |
Farmer |
1870 |
585 |
| Macklin,
A. W. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1844 |
587 |
| Oliver,
J. W. |
Woodlake |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Merchant
& Blacksmith |
1840 |
6 |
| Owen,
L. A. |
Jett
Station |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer
& Stock Raiser |
1853 |
160 |
Pryor,
William |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Bourbon
County, Ky |
Farmer
& Physician |
1860 |
134 |
| Scott,
J. E. |
Woodlake |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1841 |
250 |
| Scott,
Robert W. |
Frankfort |
Scott
County, Ky |
Farmer
& Stock Raiser |
1826 |
550 |
| Scott,
T. W. |
Duckers |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1843 |
230 |
| South,
Eudora L. |
Frankfort |
Gallatin
County, Ky |
Teacher |
1876 |
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| South,
J. K. P. |
Frankfort |
Breathitt
County, Ky |
Minister |
1859 |
49 |
| Stedman,
A. T. |
Forks
Elkhorn |
Fayette
County, Ky |
Woolen
Manufacturer |
1833 |
6 |
| Suter,
B. F. |
Switzer |
Owen
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1865 |
|
| Switzer,
J. H. |
Switzer |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Merchant |
1856 |
|
| Wilson,
R. A. |
Woodlake |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1833 |
200 |
| Wingate,
I. |
Woodlake |
Franklin
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1834 |
231 |
| Wood,
J. B. |
Woodlake |
Fayette
County, Ky |
Farmer
& Stock Raiser |
1862 |
236 |
| Wood,
J. M. |
Woodlake |
Fayette
County, Ky |
Farmer |
1862 |
507 |
Buck Run Baptist Church
Organized in January 1818, at Isaac
Wilson's. Dismissed from the Forks of Elkhorn
Church were: John and Susanna Price, Isaac and Lucy
Wilson, William Forsee and
wife, Frances Castleman, Nancy Triplett, Sarah Head, Lucy
Nall, Love Fuler, John,
Elizabeth and Benjamin Taylor, Presley and Fanny Neal, Julius
and Elizabeth
Blackburn, John and Catherine Graves, Elizabeth Gatewood,
Lewis and Jane Nall.
Dismissed from the Forks of Elkhorn. The first church
building was located on the
Wilson farm near Spring Station and Georgetown roads. John
Taylor preached
at Buck Run once a month for five years. Other early
ministers were: William
Hickman, Silas M. Noel, James Suggett, John H. Ficklin, Mordecai
and Theodoric
Bouleware and Addison M. Lewis. In 1888 the building
at Spring Station was
taken down and removed to the Forks of
Elkhorn.
Calvary Baptist Church
In the late 1940's a group left Buck Run Baptist Church and
began Calvary
and located on the opposite side of the creek. This
congregation was
almost directly across from Buck Run.
Providence Baptist Church
In 1855, Buck Run selected B. T. Quinn as pastor.
Evidently, this was not
agreeable to Cadwaller Lewis and twenty-four of the members.
They left
Buck Run and moved a few miles down the road at Woodlake
and formed
the Providence Baptist
Church.
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