A gravestone in a cemetery on Upper Buffalo Creek reads, "Milly, wife of John Abner, died March 1846."

John Renty Baker and his sons, all of them gunsmiths, invented and developed hand-operated machines to rifle the barrels.

John Renty Baker was one of the "Longhunters", spending more than a year at a time in the hunting and trapping in the forests of Kentucky and Tennessee.

According to "The Conquest of the Old Southwest", Baker hunted in Kentucky in 1766 with Daniel Boone's brother-in-law, John Stewart.

After the death of his wife, Baker became a recluse and lived in a rock house (rockshelter) near the mouth of Buffalo Creek, where he died in 1820.

Dr. Baker and Bales had both married to daughters of John White, and the couples became more intimate than was usual in the mountain country.

James Moores' land included all of Booneville, extending east across the South Fork River and towards Lerose.

The first permanent settlers of Owsley County were the Moore, Bowman, Baker, Gabbard, and Reynolds families.

Unfortunately, the court house burned to the ground January 1929, destroying all of Owsley County's early records.

County voters had repeatedly rejected the repeal of alcohol prohibition laws enacted in 1920.

[8] Even though the sale of alcohol had long been forbidden, its consumption has been legal since 1933, when the Twenty-first Amendment was implemented.

Flood plains along the banks of the South of the Kentucky River and several streams provide the level land necessary for development/farming.

[22] Every Republican presidential candidate has carried Owsley County since the party seriously contested the state for the first time in 1864.

Though deep mines in thin coal seams once provided jobs and income for local residents, this is not the case in present-day Owsley County.

Sugar Camp Baptist Church maintains a primary educational facility off of Hwy.

As he began to recover his strength, Mr. Johnson would take a hammer and chisel and climb the hill behind the Williams' home each day.

Once recovered well enough to travel again he revealed the sculpture, which he had created as a gift of appreciation to the family.

[27] The Owsley County Fiscal Court purchased the sculpture and surrounding land in 2008 from Clyde and Dianna Combs.

There are no signs informing would-be visitors of its actual location; therefore, it's difficult to find for any potential tourists who wish to visit the site.

He averaged nearly 200 hits and 70 walks a season helping him compile a .325 career batting mark.

Boone used a huge rock at the mouth of Sexton's Creek, on which he carved his initials, as his starting point in these surveys.

Boone was impressed with this area and called it "a place where peace crowns the sylvan shade."

Daniel Boone's favorite camping spot, known as the "old encampment", is located a half a mile south of Booneville between the highway and the river just below the area known as the "Sag".