William Whitley

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This file appears in: Sportsman's Hill
William Whitley

Pioneer settler William Whitley is shown in this portrait. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Sportsman's Hill

By Tim Talbott
Historical Markers #96 and #982 near Crab Orchard remember Sportsman's Hill, the home and farm of early Kentucky settler William Whitley. Whitley was a frontiersman's frontiersman. Born in 1749 in Augusta County, Virginia, Whitley first…