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County: Campbell

Mary Ingles

Marker Number: 

163

Location: 

Silver Grove, KY 8 at Oak St.

Said to have been first white woman in Kentucky. Captured by Indians in Virginia, July 1755, and taken to Ohio. Later she escaped a salt-making party at Big Bone Lick and made her way across the Kentucky wilderness back to Virginia.

Originally dedicated June 15, 1963.

For more information, see ExploreKYHistory: Mary Ingles and ExploreKYHistory: Mary Draper Ingles

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