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21. Kentucky Vineyard (J) (RM 136.6) In 1796 John Frances DeFoure, a native of Vevay, Switzerland, planted the first vineyard west of the Allegheny Mountains near the mouth of Hickman Creek. This site is near the birthplace of General William O. Butler. The European grapes, however, did not adapt to Kentucky soil and climate and the vineyard was not successful. DeFoure ultimately moved to Indiana where his vineyards were successful. General Butler Birthplace (J) Son of Revolutionary War hero General Pervical Butler, Butler fought, was wounded, and captured in the Battle of Raisin in the War of 1812. He received highest praise for his conduct in that disastrous event. He was paroled and returned to action in the Battle New Orleans under General Andrew Jackson where he again received special commendations for his conduct. 22. Liberty Warehouse & Richardson’s Ferry (G) (RM 139.5) The Liberty Warehouse was located at the earlier site of John Hogan’s Landing and served the tobacco farmers of the Mt. Hebron section of Garrard County. In July of 1817 Lewis Hogan, son of John Hogan, applied to the Garrard County Court for the establishment of a tobacco warehouse on his land. The Court approved the request in October of 1817 and gave it the name, Liberty Warehouse. Located mid-way between the busy Hickman and Quantico warehouses, it was more local in its appeal and more limited in the area it served. Pool
8 23. Lock 8 (J-G) (RM 139.9) This lock and dam was the last timber-crib dam and all-stone lock to be constructed on the Kentucky River. It was designed about three and one half feet higher than lock 7 with the hopes that one dam could be saved between that point and the goal of Beattyville. Work on this dam was started in September 1898 and opened for traffic on October 15, 1900. 24. Snapping Shoals (G) (RM 141.2) In 1779 Zachariah Smith acquired a 520-acre tract along the Kentucky River here that seems to spring from a second wave of land spec-ulation. Real commercial use of the Kentucky River did not begin until James Wilkinson opened the Spanish-held ports of New Orleans and Natchez in 1787, but some local trading did exist along the river from settlement to settlement. 25. Sugar Creek Ferry (J-G) (RM 142.4) This ferry went into operation in the late 1780’s as an important part of the Quantico industrial/shipping center. The first operator was Joseph Davis who married the widow of James Gordon, the first grantee of the Quantico site. This ferry continued in operation until about 1935. Its last known operator was George Kohler (or Koley) Quantico Landing (G) During the first half of the 19th century the premiere tobacco market in Garrard County was the Quantico warehouse and landing below the mouth of Sugar Creek. The name Quantico was derived from an earlier warehouse on the Potomac River in Virginia and was an Indian word meaning “by the long river”. The reputation of this warehouse for superior tobacco reached across the Atlantic Ocean to the British Isles and attracted investors from overseas. At the height of its success it contained dwellings, a tavern/hotel, a sawmill, a gristmill, a tobacco factory, a tobacco warehouse, a ferry and a landing. In the general area just up Sugar Creek were more gristmills, a gun-powder mill, distilleries and countless tobacco barns and tobacco prizing sheds all connected in some degree to trade on the Kentucky River through the Quantico complex.
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