1889 Map of Southeast Kentucky

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Red Bird Creek (River) in Clay County is shown on the 1889 map of southeastern Kentucky. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

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By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker # 908 in Clay County remembers Chief Red Bird, a Cherokee leader and the namesake of the Red Bird River, a tributary of the Kentucky River. The late eighteenth century was a…