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County: Nelson
Pottinger's Station
Marker Number:
1433
Location:
Near Gethsemani, KY 52, 1 mi. E. of Jct. KY 247 & 52
Site of one of the forts which protected the early settlement of Bardstown. Built by Samuel Pottinger, soldier in Revolution, who first saw the land in 1778 when he came from Maryland with troops of Capt. James Harrod. In 1781 Pottinger returned with his family and built station. It was often used as a refuge for other settlers migrating to Kentucky.