My *guess* is that two trails or roads went through and intersected near that point. Pat (in Tucson) |-----Original Message----- |From: gjsmith58@comcast.net [mailto:gjsmith58@comcast.net] |Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:58 |To: KYMERCER-L@rootsweb.com |Subject: [KYMERCER] Mercer County query | | |Ancestor Hugh Smith had a cave on his property near the Boyle |County line, but, neither of the pictures are of that cave. |The area of his property was known at the time - 1797 - 1832, |as Hugh Smith's corner. Would anyone in historical research |know the reasoning behind the name? | |Judy Smith/Colorado | | |==== KYMERCER Mailing List ==== |For an impressive amount of Mercer County KY family data, |refer to Pam Carey Ison's Mercer County Genealogy page: |http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymercer/ | |