The Great Buffalo Crossing
Before 1790
The American Bison brings the Wild West to mind, but when Europeans arrived in Kentucky, buffalo were spread throughout the Commonwealth. John Filson wrote, in 1784:
"The amazing herds of buffaloes which resort thither, by their size and number, fill the traveller with amazement and terror, especially when he beholds the prodigious roads they have made from all quarters, as if leading to some populous city."
One such road led here, to a natural ford across Green River. Imagine hundreds of buffalo, thundering into the bottoms, tramping out a road for time out of mind, that would be found in turn by Native Americans, by settlers, by soldiers, and now, by you.
Marker can be reached from River Road 0.3 miles south of Old Street, on the left when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
