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| [[Category:Kentucky Stations]]
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| Samuel Curtwright's Station () - [[Samuel Curtwright]] (also spelled Cartwright or Cutwright) reportedly settled on the Clintonville Road near the Clark County line. A precise location was not determined for this site although it is mentioned in several primary sources. [[George Yocum]] (Draper mss. 12CC147-151) reported to [[John Dabney Shane]] that the "Cutwrights" had a station on Stoner Creek, near where Hornback's Mill was. [[George Trumbo]], another pioneer interviewed by Shane, lived at the station and offered more specific information concerning it (Draper mss. 12CC113-116). He came to Kentucky in 1787 from the South Branch of the Potomac River area. After a brief return east, he settled permanently in Kentucky in 1788 at "Cutwright's" Station.
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| Trumbo placed the site three-quarters of a mile from Clintonville on the Holder Road (now Clintonville Road). At the time of the interview, [[Elizabeth Curtwright]] (wife of Henry, the youngest son) lived about 100 yards from the station site. Other families associated with the station were those of [[Thomas Longworth]], [[Abraham Coffman]], [[Samuel Hornbeck]], [[Peter Curtwright]] and [[Richard Curtwright]] and George Trumbo's father. [[Simon Hornbeck]] also settled a station one-half mile to the southwest on Johnson's Fork about the same time and later built a mill on the same tributary. It is unlikely that either of these stations were fortified. Trumbo mentioned that they were never troubled by Indians.
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| Source: [[Nancy O'Malley]], [[Stockading Up]]
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