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Kentucky: Entering the Great Valley
George Rogers Clark moves to Kentucky

First mural in the Clark Memorial

 

This mural represents George Rogers Clark on a white horse leading a group of settlers down the west slope of the Allegheny Mountains. Its title "KENTUCKY: ENTERING THE GREAT VALLEY" symbolizes the entrance of settlers from the Atlantic seacoast into the Ohio Valley, which was the entering wedge for the occupation of the Mississippi Valley, the heart of the continent.

In the 1770’s streams of settlers entered the valley by way of the Ohio River, by way of the road which Daniel Boone, in the employ of Judge Richard Henderson, cut from the mountain pass into the heart of Kentucky, and from North Carolina to what is now Tennessee.

The last mentioned was the first chronologically, but it was Clark’s leadership in organizing the settlers at Harrodsburg, in forming the county of Virginia, and in securing provision for its defense by Virginia that insured the permanent occupation of the country south of the Ohio River.

Ezra Winter, Artist

Fort Sackville  

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British Fort Sackville was named in honor of George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, who was a member of parliamentd fruing the reign of King George III.
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Last Updated: June 29, 2006 at 14:25 EST