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  • Colonel John Holder Boonesborough Defender & Kentucky Entrepreneur
    Harry G Enoch
    John Holder made his mark as one of the heroic defenders of Boonesborough. After Daniel Boone left Kentucky, Holder became commander of the fort.Holder married Fanny Callaway, a daughter of Col. Richard Callaway, one of the founders of Boonesborough. Fanny, along with her sister Betsy, and Jemima Boone were captured by the Shawnee in 1776-one of the signature events on the Kent...
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    21,87 €

  • African Americans at Fort Boonesborough, 1775-1784
    Anne Crabb / Harry G. Enoch
    The purpose of this study is to chronicle the lives of African Americans who were at Fort Boonesborough. We limited the scope of our narrative to the years the fort stood, 1775 and 1784. Fort Boonesborough is one of Kentucky?s most historic places. It was the wilderness outpost of Richard Henderson?s Transylvania Company and, for a few years, was home to Daniel Boone. Due ...
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    14,06 €

  • A Barnard Family Trilogy
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    This history covers six generations of the Barnard family in America beginning with Jonathan Barnard, immigrant and Revolutionary War veteran from Massachusetts. Jonathan later resided in Hancock County, Tennessee, where many Barnards still reside. Five of Jonathan’s great-grandsons were sentenced to hang for the murder of Henley Sutton in 1889. Dubbed the 'Bad Barnard Boys,...
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    15,12 €

  • Where In The World? Volume 2, Historic People and Places in Clark County, Kentucky
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    Unusual place names evoke a sense of mystery and wonder. How did a place come to be called the 'Wolf Pen' or the 'Shot Factory'? Where in the world were the 'Indian Old Fields' and 'Brandenburg’s Mill'? Researching these names often reveals fascinating stories about local history, families, events, and politics. Clark County, Kentucky is blessed with many such interesting place...
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    20,75 €

  • Indian Old Fields
    Harry G. Enoch
    Over 50 significant prehistoric and historic archaeological sites have been identified in the Indian Old Fields area of Clark County, Kentucky. These date from 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1800. Several of these sites are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Indian Old Fields was the one-time home of Shawnee chief Catahecassa (Black Hoof), the reputed site of John Fin...
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    12,03 €

  • Bound for New Orleans! John Halley’s Journal of Flatboat Trips from Boonesborough in 1789 & 1791
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    John Halley’s journals provide the earliest first-hand accounts of the voyage down the Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. Halley supplies insightful accounts of what became one of Kentucky’s major early industries-shipping goods and produce by flatboat to the port of New Orleans-and he does so almost at the birth of that industry, just two years after Gen. J...
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    10,90 €

  • History of Weddle’s Mill And Other Old Mills Located Near Doylesville on Muddy Creek In Madison County, Kentucky
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    George Weddle operated a gristmill on Muddy Creek from the early to mid-1800s. The mill stood about two miles from the Kentucky River, near the road from Richmond to Jackson’s Ferry. The establishment played a prominent role in the local community for nearly a century. The gristmill produced flour and cornmeal for nearby farmers, as well as for a distillery, and a stagecoach...
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    10,93 €

  • History of the Kerr Building and Eclipse Mills, Winchester, Kentucky
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    The Kerr Building encompasses two separate buildings: the S. P. Kerr Business Block and the Eclipse Mills. George Taylor and Leslie Webster put up the Eclipse Mills in about 1867. Smith Kerr erected the Business Block in 1889. After serving as a prominent business house in Winchester for over a century, in the late 1990s the Kerr Building fell into disrepair and was in dang...
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    6,05 €

  • A Year In Vietnam With The 101st Airborne, 1969-1970
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    The author was one of many reluctant soldiers who served in the Vietnam War. Drafted out of graduate school and trained in the infantry, he spent a year with the 101st Airborne. This work is a journal of the experience, a day to day description of what it was like in a 'grunt unit' fighting in the Central Highlands, dealing with the heat, the bugs, the rain, the endless patro...
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    17,54 €

  • Captain Billy Bush and the Bush Settlement, Clark County, Kentucky, A Family History
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    No one played a more important role in the settlement of Clark County than Capt. William 'Billy' Bush. Born in Orange County, Virginia, Billy came out with Daniel Boone in 1775, resided for a time at Fort Boonesborough, then spent the rest of his life living a few miles from the fort. He thus became one of the first permanent settlers in Kentucky. He thus became one of the f...
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    28,80 €

  • Family History of George and William Redmon of Pennsylvania and Kentucky
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    This history of George and William Redmon presents evidence for the Virginia origin of the Redmon family of Kentucky and for the military service of George and William during the Revolutionary War. It also establishes a connection between the Redmons from the counties of Bourbon, Clark, Harrison, and Montgomery by providing proof that the progenitors of these families, George ...
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    25,66 €

  • John Martin of Lower Howard's Creek, Clark County, Kentucky
    Harry G. Enoch
    John Martin was a pioneer of Clark County, Kentucky, where he lived on Lower Howard's Creek. John had been a blacksmith in Goochland County, Virginia, where he married Rachel Pace. He owned a small farm there before moving to Ballenger Creek in what is now Fluvanna County. John and Rachel were the parents of thirteen children. In the late 1780s, the parents and children mov...
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    14,05 €

  • Papers of John C. Enoch, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    John C. Enoch was born in 1859 in Champaign County, Ohio, near the town of West Liberty. When he was eleven years old, John’s parents, William D. and Ann Eliza Enoch, moved the family to Coshocton, Ohio. In 1879 John married Emma Shaw of Coshoction. In about 1888, they moved to Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, where John opened a general merchandise store-Enoch’s Bargain House. Shor...
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    17,62 €

  • Autobiographical Sketches of Barzilla R. Shaw, Coshocton, Ohio
    Harry G. Enoch
    Barzilla R. Shaw (1836-1935) was born in a log cabin near Coshocton, Ohio, and died in that city at the age of 99. He lived to see his little town grow from 250 inhabitants to a city of 12,000. Barzilla was a farmer, merchant, Civil War veteran, local civic leader, and devoted family man. When he died he was the oldest resident of the city and the oldest Civil War veteran in...
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    17,61 €

  • John Howard of Howard’s Creek
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    During his visit to the western country from Virginia in 1775, John Howard staked out land claims on two tributaries of the Kentucky River-one a few miles upstream from Fort Boonesborough, the other just downstream from the fort. These tributaries came to be known as Upper Howard’s Creek and Lower Howard’s Creek. John Howard, the pioneer who gave his name to these Clark Count...
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    11,18 €

  • Historical Records of the Enoch Family in Virginia and Pennsylvania
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    Brothers Henry Enoch and Enoch Enoch came to Virginia before 1750, settling on the sparsely populated frontier west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Their Virginia years were defined by the French and Indian War (1755-1763) and their close association with young George Washington. By 1757, their children had begun to explore more westerly lands, where they ultimately resettled wi...
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    25,66 €

  • Women at Fort Boonesborough, 1775-1784
    Anne Crabb / Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    Fort Boonesborough is one of Kentucky’s most historic places and, although seldom mentioned in popular accounts, women were there from the very beginning. This work includes 195 women whose presence at the fort can be reasonably documented by historical evidence. The time period was limited to the years between 1775, when the fort was established, and 1784, when the threat of ...
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    17,48 €

  • Affair at Captina Creek
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    With the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States not only gained independence from the British Empire but also secured control of a sizable territory west of the Allegheny Mountains. Native Americans of the Ohio River Valley refused to accept claims of the fledgling nation and militantly resisted white settlements in their homelands. Constant border strife turned into o...
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    27,14 €

  • Clark County Road Book, 1793-1876
    Harry G. Enoch / Larry G. Meadows
    Creating and maintaining roads has long been the duty of Kentucky county courts. Actions by the court establishing new roads and modifying existing roads are referred to as 'road orders.' Careful study of a county’s roads offers insight into the social and economic development of the county. The collection of road orders recorded in Clark County Order Books describes the exp...
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    10,39 €

  • Pioneer Voices
    Harry G. Enoch
    This work focuses on the first-hand accounts of men and women who came to Clark County, Kentucky during the early settlement period, 1775-1800. The accounts are drawn from the interviews conducted by Rev. John D. Shane with aging pioneers in the 1840s and 50s. To make their stories accessible to modern readers, thirty-two interviews and one memoir were transcribed from microf...
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    19,30 €

  • Grimes Mill, Kentucky Landmark on Boone Creek, Fayette County
    Harry G. Enoch / Harry GEnoch
    The Grimes Mill complex and the nearby Grimes House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Charles Grimes’ merchant mill was originally built to manufacture wheat for export to New Orleans. The business continued under various owners for over 100 years. The mill ceased operating in 1928 and since that time has served as headquarters for the Iroquois Hunt Club. ...
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    29,05 €

  • In Search of Morgan's Station and 'The Last Indian Raid in Kentucky'
    Harry G. Enoch
    The focal point of this meticulously researched book is the 1793 Indian raid on Morgan's Station in which a band of about thirty-five Shawnee and Cherokee Indians descended upon this small fort in a surprise attack that ended with two people killed and 19 ...
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    22,30 €