I am researching the Payne line. The sur-name Howard has been mentioned in family history. Do you have any information about this? Thank you Charlie >From: Cassie Hill <lulu2002@charter.net> >Reply-To: KYMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com >To: KYMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [KYMONTGO-L] Howard's Mill >Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:49:03 -0500 > >Re Howard's Mill from a website (which one unknown) > >Howard's Mill is in the near vicinity of Morgan's Station, a block house >rendezvous built by the first settlers as protection against Indian >forays. It was the only one in what is now Montgomery County, and was, in >April 1793 attacked by Wyandotte Indians on their last invasion of >Kentucky, one of the last to occur in that part of the state. The Indians >surprised and took the fort, carrying away a number of women and children, >some of whom were killed, but some were returned after the peace of 1795. >That was before Mt. Sterling was settled. Beside the strategic location of >Morgan's Station, Howard's Mill is on the road from Mt. Sterling to >Olympia Springs, long a noted watering place resort. It was near also the >Forge Iron Works on Slate Creek, where iron ores were smelted and made >into cannon balls that served General Jackson at New Orleans. In those >times the Howards Mill settlement was of some note. When steam was >substituted for water power, and the rich ore deposits of the northwest >outmoded Old Forge, and the roadhouse took over the pleasure seekers who >erstwhile made Olympia famous, old Howards Mill fell into "innocuous >desuetude" as an active business center. > >Howards Mill was the site of an old water mill of ambitious proportion and >capacity for its time, long before steam was introduced, built on Slate >Creek and operated by the Howards -- an old and famous mercantile family >of the county. Capt. James Howard, for a long time postmaster at Mt. >Sterling, and prior thereto County Court Clerk, was of that family. The >mill dam stood the test of many years and floods. Then Mt. Sterling >installed water works for the city, the waters of Slate Creek impounded by >the dam were readily available for an adequate supply. A mural of the mill >and dam may be seen on the wall of the Montgomery Hotel at Mt. Sterling. >The village is about six miles southeast of Mt. Sterling. > > >Darrell Holton sent me a watercolor a couple of years ago and he says that >in 1997 part of the foundation was still there. "There is a low dam across >the river at that point. The dam would be just to the right of where the >waterwheel is in the picture." > >I am a descendant of James Howard and Martha Frame. > >Cassie Hill > > >==== KYMONTGO Mailing List ==== >Please post your ancestors. No one can help you if the knowledgeable >people on the list don't know who you are researching! >

No On Aug 29, 2005, at 6:25 PM, C Buckles wrote: I am researching the Payne line. The sur-name Howard has been mentioned in family history. Do you have any information about this? Thank you Charlie > From: Cassie Hill <lulu2002@charter.net> > Reply-To: KYMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com > To: KYMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [KYMONTGO-L] Howard's Mill > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:49:03 -0500 > > Re Howard's Mill from a website (which one unknown) > > Howard's Mill is in the near vicinity of Morgan's Station, a block > house rendezvous built by the first settlers as protection against > Indian forays. It was the only one in what is now Montgomery > County, and was, in April 1793 attacked by Wyandotte Indians on > their last invasion of Kentucky, one of the last to occur in that > part of the state. The Indians surprised and took the fort, > carrying away a number of women and children, some of whom were > killed, but some were returned after the peace of 1795. That was > before Mt. Sterling was settled. Beside the strategic location of > Morgan's Station, Howard's Mill is on the road from Mt. Sterling > to Olympia Springs, long a noted watering place resort. It was > near also the Forge Iron Works on Slate Creek, where iron ores > were smelted and made into cannon balls that served General > Jackson at New Orleans. In those times the Howards Mill settlement > was of some note. When steam was substituted for water power, and > the rich ore deposits of the northwest outmoded Old Forge, and the > roadhouse took over the pleasure seekers who erstwhile made > Olympia famous, old Howards Mill fell into "innocuous desuetude" > as an active business center. > > Howards Mill was the site of an old water mill of ambitious > proportion and capacity for its time, long before steam was > introduced, built on Slate Creek and operated by the Howards -- an > old and famous mercantile family of the county. Capt. James > Howard, for a long time postmaster at Mt. Sterling, and prior > thereto County Court Clerk, was of that family. The mill dam stood > the test of many years and floods. Then Mt. Sterling installed > water works for the city, the waters of Slate Creek impounded by > the dam were readily available for an adequate supply. A mural of > the mill and dam may be seen on the wall of the Montgomery Hotel > at Mt. Sterling. The village is about six miles southeast of Mt. > Sterling. > > > Darrell Holton sent me a watercolor a couple of years ago and he > says that in 1997 part of the foundation was still there. "There > is a low dam across the river at that point. The dam would be just > to the right of where the waterwheel is in the picture." > > I am a descendant of James Howard and Martha Frame. > > Cassie Hill > > > ==== KYMONTGO Mailing List ==== > Please post your ancestors. No one can help you if the > knowledgeable people on the list don't know who you are researching! > > ==== KYMONTGO Mailing List ==== Post the Bible records of your Montgomery County, Kentucky ancestors (and surrounding areas). Our ancestors moved around the counties much like we do today, only taking a slower method - covered wagons & horses.