Simon Kenton's RIde

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Simon Kenton's RIde

"Simon Kenton's Ride" was painted by William Walcutt in the mid-nineteenth century. 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…