Simon Kenton

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This file appears in: Kenton Ambushes Indians
Simon Kenton

This portrait of Simon Kenton shows him in his later years. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Kenton Ambushes Indians

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #1614 in Bracken County notes the location where, in 1793, Simon Kenton and a party of settlers crossed the Ohio River to attack a group of Native Americans returning from a raid into central Kentucky. By the 1770s, most Native…