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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20DN_john-c-c-mayo_Paintsville-KY.html
Mayo promoted railroads and helped organize banks to assist rail and coal companies. Having gained extensive wealth, he established many religious, educational and financial institutions to help the mountain people. He built his home on this corne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QDD_jennie-jenny-wiley_Hagerhill-KY.html
Virginia Sellards Wiley was born about 1760 in Pennsylvania. When Jennie was a small child, however, the family moved to the settlement at Walker's Creek in present-day Bland County, Virginia. Jenny married Thomas Wiley in 1779. Native American at…
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Matthias Harman, a Pennsylvania-born Virginian, became acquainted with Kentucky's Big Sandy River valley in the mid 1700s. Harman and some of his Virginia associates built a log cabin in the valley for hunting in 1755 in present-day Johnson County…