About 3 miles NW, on Plumb Creek, Nicholas Ball, trapper and Long Hunter, established a camp which was used by westbound emigrants. Several years after founding this camp he was killed by Indians near Wells Station, Dec 23 1793.

Marker is at the intersection of Kingston Pike (U.S. 11, 70) and Cedar Bluff Road and Kingston Pike, on the right when traveling east on Kingston Pike.

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