1859 Railway Map

ID: 2756
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An area of Clay County was known as Red Bird as early as 1859, according to this railway map. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Chief Red Bird

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…