Letters 8/1/2019

Here’s the scoop on the Dutch Markers in KY

SENT BY: (the prez) Charles Westerfield

The fund raIsing graphic is attached. The Low Dutch Station is the sign we are replacing, It is at the Brown Park near Baptist East Hospital in Louisville. The Westerfield Massacre sign is near Shepherdsville. Will will have a dedication at this sign. We need $700.00 to complete all three markers!

Charlie
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SENT BY:  (the PREZ) Charles Westerfield

Here are the final versions of the Markers: #2580 Westerfield Massacre, #1848 Low Dutch Station.

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Kentucky Historical Society Historical Marker Program
Low Dutch Station #1848

Low Dutch Station
In 1780 Hendrick Banta led a large group of Dutch settlers down the Ohio River to the Falls of the Ohio from Pennsylvania.
They rented land from John Floyd and built Low Dutch (New Holland) station, one of seven forts on Beargrass Creek. In 1810, leading agriculturalist James Brown of Maryland, acquired the property.
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Low Dutch in Kentucky
In the spring of 1781 many Low Dutch families, including a group led by James Westerfield, began moving to safer lands rented from James Harrod in Mercer County. In 1784, families purchased the Low Dutch Tract in Henry & Shelby Counties from Squire Boone, but it was not settled safely for another decade.
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DEDICATION DATE: Sept. 14, 2019

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 Kentucky Historical Society Historical Marker Program
Westerfield Massacre #2580

Westerfield Massacre Several families, led by Low Dutchman James Westerfield,
were attacked by American Indians while camped near here on
April 3, 1781. Over a dozen travelers were killed & 2 girls were taken as captives to the British at Detroit. Survivors fled to nearby Clear’s Station.

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Brooks’ Spring
The spring here, first called Stewart’s or Phillips’ and then Brooks’ Spring, was a well-known camping place in the early 1780s on the main route from the Falls of the Ohio & Beargrass Creek to Bullitt’s Lick & Harrodsburg.
Revolutionary War skirmishes with settlers & British-allied American Indians made the area dangerous.
Hester Family

DEDICATION DATE: Sept. 14, 2019

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SENT BY: Carolyn Leonard
All Dutch Newsletters from 2005 to 2019 (yep) this newest one) are on thewww.DutchCousins.org web page. Choose NEWSLETTERS and you can download any or all of them. The 2019 NL is printed and in the mail, so if you are on the mailing list, you should be receiving one within a week.

Carolyn Leonard
Editor, Dutch cousins of Kentucky

E-mail me: Editor234 (at) gmail.com
On my web page www.CarolynBLeonard.com

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