Jenny Wiley State Park
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The Jenny Wiley State Park in Prestonsburg is named in honor of frontier heroine Virginia Wiley, who spent eleven months in Cherokee and Shawnee Indian captivity. Courtesy of the University of Kentucky.
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Jennie (Jenny) Wiley
Historical Marker #735 in Johnson County commemorates Jenny (Jennie) Wiley and her daring escape from the Native Americans who held her captive for nearly a year.
Virginia Sellards Wiley was born about 1760 in Pennsylvania. When Jennie was a…