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On to Creelsboro...(once called Campellsburg) The story starts out in Adair County, KY, and flashbacks to Green County, shires in which the present riverport, Creelsboro, was located...that's verse - or maybe a chapter in the story of Creelsboro, a story within itself, historian Mike Watson notes. In this story, the issue of the day was getting the Green County Court to maintain the Greensburg to Creelsboro roadway. Click on headline for complete story, a must read for anyone remotely interested in history - but of supreme interest to the host of Creelsboro devotees By Mike Watson, Adair County Historian On the motion of William Caldwell, Clerk of the Adair County Court, reviewers were appointed to keep up the road from Columbia to the ferry, operated by Mr. Campbell, on the Cumberland River, in March 1803. A small settlement grew up around the Campbell ferry, the community came to be known as Campbellsburg. Mr. Campbell died about 1814 and the next to operate the ferry was a Mr. Flowers. A road order by the Adair Court, in May 1820, divided the road leading from Zion Meeting House, that being Zion Baptist Church on modern highway 55, south of Columbia, to the Flowers Ferry on the river. There were to be three new road precincts, the third began at Jacob Miller's and ran to the Cumberland County line. Adam Miller was appointed surveyor of the road and those ordered to hekp him keep it in good repair were Charles Jones, Sr., Thomas Turner, the widow Grider (more correctly, her sons), Franklin Berry, Solomon Miller, Joseph Hamilton and William Hundley. The road passed through or near the lands of these folk and, as was custom at the time, they were responsible for keeping the road passable. If the road surveyor neglected his job, he could be hauled before the court and charged, if found guilty he would be fined and sometimes removed from the position. As early as July 1797, the road from Greensburg, through what would become Adair County, and on to the Cumberland River of was importance to many. In 1797 John Harvey, Nathan Hurt, Nathan Montgomery and Arch Skaggs, all later residents of what would be Adair, were ordered by the Green County Court to view the road leaving from Jesse Gray's mill--which was located at the mouth of Caney Fork, below Mt. Gilead Church--to Nicholas Naylor's mill. The Naylor mill, built for William Hurt and operated by him for a time before his sale to Naylor, was the earliest mill in Adair County, on Pettit's Fork Creek, south of Columbia. Green County Court ordered in June 1799 Thomas Stapp, William Burbridge, William Butler and John Miller to view the road from Naylor's Mill to Cumberland River, at a point between the Rockhouse and the mouth of Greasy Creek. At some time in the first half of the 1800s there was agitation to alter the road between Columbia and Creelsboro. This disturbed some citizen and a petition (undated) was presented to the Adair County Court in favor of the road remaining as it was. The petition bore more than one hundred names: Thomas Bristow, of Stockton Valley, " a traveler well pleased with the present road and citizens on the road", B.G. Watkins, James Duncan, Jr., Sarah "Yas" (Yates?), James Duncan, Sr., Adam Miller, Isaac Wright, John W. Wright, Isaac Miller, David Voyles, Robert T. Staples, Obadiah P. Reams, James McClister, John Miller, Wiley Turner, David D. Reams, Robert McClain, Henry Antle, Joseph M. McMillin, John Townsend, Jr., Joseph Loving, Thomas Townsend, Caleb H. Ricketts, Thomas B. Moore, L. Montgomery, F.A.W. Robertson, Joseph Sparks, Mashon Tinsley, Nathan Hays, William Cumpton, Joseph Wisdom, Joseph Newsom, Jacob Antle, William Jackson Miller, Will C. Antle, John B. Winfrey, Thomas O. Wright, Josiah Sparks, Trabue Sparks, Samuel Sparks, James Blackburn, William Busby, Thomas Sparks, Jacob Cooper, Eli Blackburn, John Lewis, Thomas Corbin, Garner Marshall, Frederick Grider, James Grant, Jacob Miller, G.W. Turner, Hiram Turner, W.A. Turner, Enock Turner, John Turner, ??? Turner, Levi Turner, Hiram Turner, Joseph Turner, Asa Turner, Wesley Willis, Shadrack Phelps, Andrew McClister, Daniel Reams, Silas Kidwell, James Canpeel (Campbell?), George Spoon, John Harvey, Joseph Chapman, John Walkup, John Cundiff, James Spencer, James M. Best, James Lewis, Elijah Creel Field, William Buford Field, Martin Squires, James W. Squires, John Spencer, George Mitchell, Oliver Walkup, George Miller, Julian Aaron, Nathan Karns, Uriah D. Arnold, Jacob Helms, James Hammons, William Rowe, William Vermillion, Terrell Rowe, William A. Bledsoe, F. Turner, Birch Vermillion, Benjamin Turner, William Lawless, James Vigles, Henry Hadley, Smith Turner, Hiram Rowe, James Rowe, Henry Winfrey, John Miller, Thomas Winfrey, James Winfrey, William Vigle, John Polley, John Vigle, Jesse Easley, James Gifford, John Newsome, Everhart Antle, Isaac Wright, Jr., Powell Wright, Zach Collins, Thomas Collins and William Rippetoe. Not all the names on the petition resided on or along the road, but certainly had an interest in keeping it where it was. The early history of Creelsboro is, of course, a whole history in and unto itself. - MIKE WATSON This story was posted on 2013-06-22 10:54:09
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