An Ohio River Flatboat On the third day of March, 1783, the court was opened at Harrodsburg ; but there being no house large enough at Founding of that place for its accommodation, it adjourned Danville to a chm-^ six miles away. One of its first official acts was to order a log courthouse to be built at some safe place near Crow's Station (about ten miles from near Crow's and a jail also, of " hewed or sawed. [Source: A History of Kentucky by Elizabeth Shelby Kinkead, NEW YORK The Kentucky Encyclopedia by John E. Kleber, Editor , University Press of Kentucky pg 244, CROW'S STATION. Crow's Station was built by John Crow on 1,143 acres of land he claimed while accompanying James Harrod into central Kentucky in 1774. It was one of the crudely fortified places that served as temporary refuges for settlers flooding into Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. Crow's Station was a wooden palisade surrounding a log house and a spring, called the Town Spring when the staton became a part of Danville. The supreme court of the District of Kentucky met briefly at the station while a courthouse was being built in pioneer Danville's town square. Crow's Station fell into disrepair. John Crow disposed of his remaining lands near Danville and took title to some wilderness land on the Green River where one of his slaves murdered him. See Calvin M. Fackler, Early Days in Danville (Louisville, 1941)... Richard C. Brown **************AOL Search: Your one stop for directions, recipes and all other Holiday needs. Search Now. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212792382x1200798498/aol?redir=http://searchblog.aol.com/2008/11/04/happy-holidays-from -aol-search/?ncid=emlcntussear00000001)