Captured

ID: 2650
This file appears in: McKinney's Fort

American Indian raiders sometimes took settlers captives. Frontier forts and stations helped protect against such fears. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: McKinney's Fort

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2063 in Lincoln County remembers McKinney's Fort, an early Kentucky settlement and trading post. As settlers from the east coast states moved westward into frontier regions like…