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	Green County, Kentucky Genealogical Records Information
		In Green County, an agrarian community, tobacco is the leading cash crop, and corn, hay, and vegetables are among the major crops grown.
		Known as the "Quaker general," Greene was an American commander at Boston, Long Island, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and several other engagements.
		Green County, the sixteenth in order of formation, is located in south-central Kentucky, bordered by Adair, Hart, Larue, Metcalfe, and Taylor counties, and has an area of 289 square miles.
	www.mykentuckygenealogy.com /ky_county/grn.htm (858 words)

	County Name
		In 1778, Gen. George Rogers Clark established a fort on Corn Island in the Ohio River, and a plan for the City of Louisville was laid out in 1779.
		Kentucky Derby Museum - "Every Derby, every day" is the mission of this showcase of the Kentucky Derby and its history.
		In 1780, Jefferson County, Kentucky was formed from the Virginia territory and named after Thomas Jefferson.
	rlco.org /jeffersonkentucky.htm (592 words)

	County Name
		In 1778, Gen. George Rogers Clark established a fort on Corn Island in the Ohio River, and a plan for the City of Louisville was laid out in 1779.
		In 1780, Jefferson County, Kentucky was formed from the Virginia territory and named after Thomas Jefferson.
		Kentucky Derby Museum - "Every Derby, every day" is the mission of this showcase of the Kentucky Derby and its history.
	www.rlco.org /jeffersonkentucky.htm (592 words)

	County Name
		In 1778, Gen. George Rogers Clark established a fort on Corn Island in the Ohio River, and a plan for the City of Louisville was laid out in 1779.
		In 1780, Jefferson County, Kentucky was formed from the Virginia territory and named after Thomas Jefferson.
		Kentucky Derby Museum - "Every Derby, every day" is the mission of this showcase of the Kentucky Derby and its history.
	www.rlco.org /jeffersonkentucky.htm (592 words)

	County Name
		In 1778, Gen. George Rogers Clark established a fort on Corn Island in the Ohio River, and a plan for the City of Louisville was laid out in 1779.
		Kentucky Derby Museum - "Every Derby, every day" is the mission of this showcase of the Kentucky Derby and its history.
		In 1780, Jefferson County, Kentucky was formed from the Virginia territory and named after Thomas Jefferson.
	www.rlco.org /jeffersonkentucky.htm (592 words)

	County Name
		In 1778, Gen. George Rogers Clark established a fort on Corn Island in the Ohio River, and a plan for the City of Louisville was laid out in 1779.
		In 1780, Jefferson County, Kentucky was formed from the Virginia territory and named after Thomas Jefferson.
		Kentucky Derby Museum - "Every Derby, every day" is the mission of this showcase of the Kentucky Derby and its history.
	www.rlco.org /jeffersonkentucky.htm (592 words)

	County Name
		In 1778, Gen. George Rogers Clark established a fort on Corn Island in the Ohio River, and a plan for the City of Louisville was laid out in 1779.
		In 1780, Jefferson County, Kentucky was formed from the Virginia territory and named after Thomas Jefferson.
		Kentucky Derby Museum - "Every Derby, every day" is the mission of this showcase of the Kentucky Derby and its history.
	www.rlco.org /jeffersonkentucky.htm (592 words)

	General George Rogers Clark
		General Clark and his men built a small stockade with shelters and planted a crop of corn on the seven-acre island and the island was appropriately named Corn Island thereafter.
		Clark gathered his troops on the premise that they were going to be defending the Kentucky settlements against further Indian attacks.
		The fountain lies between Louisville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Indiana and between the 2nd Street bridge and the Conrail Railroad bridge.
	www.cismall.com /clark.html (974 words)

	General George Rogers Clark
		Corn Island can no longer be seen because the majority of the island was destroyed when a cement mill quarried the limestone bedrock there in the late 1800's.
		Clark gathered his troops on the premise that they were going to be defending the Kentucky settlements against further Indian attacks.
		Clark petitioned the Commonwealth of Virginia to use the land he had accepted from the Shawnees to pay the men of his company for their military service.
	www.cismall.com /clark.html (974 words)

	George Rogers Clark - Fall of Fort Sackville
		Clark's troops arrive at an island at the Falls of the Ohio River which he names Corn Island (English, 131, 471).
		Clark is a deputy surveyor for Ohio Company to survey what is now Kentucky.
		George Rogers Clark is born in Albemarle County, Virginia.
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/publications/tlgrc.html (987 words)

	Fort Nelson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Nelson refers to the original fort on Corn Island on the Ohio River, at the site of modern-day Louisville, Kentucky.
		Fort Nelson River is a tributary of the Mackenzie River.
		Fort Nelson was a fur trading post on Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Nelson River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Nelson (146 words)

	Species: Anser albifrons
		In the fields of Kentucky this goose eats seeds of corn and grass blades [15].
		The Pacific white-fronted goose breeds in eastern Siberia, in arctic Alaska from the Bering Sea Coast east to the Mackenzie River, and on Saint Lawrence Island.
		The Greenland white-fronted goose breeds on the west coast of Greenland and in the taiga of the Mackenzie Basin region of Canada; it winters mainly in Ireland but occasionally winters in eastern Canada and the eastern United States along the Atlantic Coast [9,18,24].
	www.fs.fed.us /database/feis/wildlife/bird/anal/all.html (2042 words)

	Palmer List of Merchant Vessels - Co
		Late in her career she was sold to a gentleman of Dover, Kentucky, who ran her several times Cincinnati-New Orleans, and then pinch-hit in the excursion trade between Cincinnati and Coney Island; during one such trip she ran over the steamer LAME DUCK and sank her.
		She is said to have made a trip up the Wabash River to New Harmony, Indiana, and brought out a large cargo of corn.
		In March 1845, bound from New Orleans to Bremerhaven, the COPERNICUS grounded at the mouth of the Weser River; she was repaired at Bremerhaven.
	www.geocities.com /mppraetorius/com-co.htm (5027 words)

	Kentucky: Secretary of State - Land Office - Gazetteer of Early Kentucky Locations
		Corn Island (Ohio River; first settlement made in spring of 1778)
		Harrod's Town (aka Harrodsburg Station or Col. James Harrod's Town)
		James McAfee's Station (first cabin built in 1774; more settlers arrived in 1775)
	apps.sos.ky.gov /land/reference/gazetteer.asp (1276 words)

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