Mary Ingles
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Mary Ingles escaped from her Shawnee captors at Big Bone Lick. She traveled more than 40 days and 450 miles before finally reaching her home.
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Mary Ingles
Historical Marker #859 in Union marks where Mary Draper Ingles, most likely the first white woman in Kentucky, made her escape from the Shawnees. Most of what is known about Mary Ingles' escape from…