Gilbert, Thank you so much for the inforamation you sent along. I had been told that it probably was named for a "developer's wife" sometime back but I didn't get the information about the development of the property from the aspect of being connected with one of the coal mines. That is enlightening. Yes, there is a possibility that the wife of the developer has a family connection. That is something else I have thought about and I will need to find out the name of the developer. I realized that the distance would have been quite great 150 years ago. That was what was bothering me with this..I would be interested, however, if someone could give me an approximate idea of where the ferry ran from Kentucky to Indiana in that area. Was it located so that it came into downtown Newburgh? What is the origin of the name Yankeetown Road? Also, is there a French Island Road on the Indiana side of the river..or is there only one on the Kentucky side? Thank you. Marilyn