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Camp Branch Creek In the summer of 1852 wagon trains from Kentucky arrived in the newly settled area that would become Kentucky Town. For those newcomers who did not have shelter and water until they could build and establish their homes, it was a short trek of less than two miles to the north to a well shaded and heavily wooded area called Camp Branch, a tributary of Mill Creek. "With its running water for livestock and its flowing spring, it had already become known and well used as a favorite camp site." By 1862 it would become the site for "winter rendezvous and encampment of Quantrill's Civil War guerrillas." Kentucky Town and Its Baptist Church Joe W. Chumbley c1975 pg5 Waterways Susan Hawkins © 2024 |