Big Bone Lick Kentucky and Jane’s Saddlebag!
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interpreted history, antiques & collectibles, perfect for the whole family.
The Story of Big Bone Lick
The Story of Big Bone Lick written by Kentucky author Nancy Jordan Blackmore is an educational story told by a talking horse that travels back in time to make friends with the ice age animals at the world famous Boone County Kentucky site where many mega beasts were first discovered in the 1700's......Read Full Story
Ice Age or Pleistocene Epoch
During the last Ice Age, there were many large, interesting mammals such as saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, mastodons, and mammoths. These animals have long since gone extinct and are known mostly from fossils, frozen mummified carcasses, and even from ancient cave drawings......Read Full Story
Lewis and Clark at Big Bone Lick
"Thomas Jefferson's letter to Meriwether Lewis initiated one of the most famed voyages of exploration in American history. Over a 3-year period, the expedition, which came to be called the Corps of Discovery, journeyed to the Pacific Ocean and back. Since the 1780s, President Jefferson had been interested in finding a water route to the Pacific. However, until 1803, he had been unable to put together an expedition to explore the territory west of the United States. By the time the Louisiana Territory was purchased from France (for $15......Read Full Story
Corps of Discovery Fun Facts
"Tne of the most famed voyages of exploration in American history came to be known as the Corps of Discovery. President Thomas Jefferson had been interested in finding a water route to the Pacific. However, he had been unable to put together an expedition to explore the territory west of the United States......Read Full Story
Thomas Jefferson and Big Bone Lick
"To understand President Thomas Jefferson's interest in Big Bone Lick, you must first understand the history leading up to and beyond Jefferson's quest for fossils from here. The earliest European reports of the mastodon followed the 1705 discovery of a fist-sized tooth and bone fragments near the village of Claverack in the Hudson River valley of Colonial New York. Accounts by two Puritan clergymen,......Read Full Story
Flatboat History
"In the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, thousands of flatboats were floated on one-way trips down the Ohio River taking pioneer families west to settle the states of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois......Read Full Story
Ohio River Info and History
"The Ohio River begins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at the Point in Pittsburgh, PA, and flows 981 miles to join the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois......Read Full Story
Ohio River at Big Bone Kentucky
"The Ohio River area around Big Bone, Kentucky, is rich in history. The largest town, now extinct, was Hamilton. It was named after an early magistrate, Joel Hamilton, whose descendants still live in the area. Hamilton was originally known as ......Read Full Story
The Story of Mary Draper Ingles
"Mary Draper Ingles was only twenty-three and pregnant when Shawnee Indians invaded the peaceful Virginia settlement where she, her husband and children lived. Taken captive, she lived with the Shawnee for months until she finally escaped from Big Bone ......Read Full Story
Lincoln born in Hogdenville Kentucky
"Abraham Lincoln was born in Hogdenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809."My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place." -- Abraham Lincoln on June 4, 1860......Read Full Story
