Understand,before Clermont Co settlement started the 1795-96 winter after the treaty of Greenville brought Indian peace, there were earlier white settlements,in forts,or stations,nearby. The earliest were in the Maysville-Washington,Mason Co,Ky area and included Dan'l Boon and Simon Kenton. The only other place early Ky settlement reached the Ohio River was downstream 100+ miles at Louisville. 2nd,there is a mile+ wide valley [flood plain] running up the Little Miami River,from it's mouth at Columbia's Ft Miami 11? miles to Terrace Park-Round Bottom-Milford. Columbia was 1788-89,and Covalt's,and the Round Bottom Stations followed 1790-91. Within sight of where the East Fork spilts from the main Little Miami at s Mildord, and where Clermont begins. I'm betting one of the 2 major settlement area of Clermont were Milford,and a few miles up those rivers, and a few miles up those roads now called Rts 28,50,and 131. And then,when Indian peace seemed finally to have been reached by the 1795 treaty of Greenville, some of those people,like the Donham's, and Arthur's, moved further into Clermont. I know of 5 ,only forts,on the Ky side from Maysville,to across from Cincinnati. Two of those were in western Mason Co,Ky. 2 more,in Bracken Co,Ky [Alex Buchanan's mil west of Germantown, Ky and Leach's [someplace?] Since it is recorded that 100+ families left very,very sw Pa for what became Bracken Co,in 1789-91,there were likely more. I think these people expected Harmar's and then Gov St Clair's armies to beat the Indians,in 1789 and 91, starting a Miami's land rush. And,those armies being defeated, those of that land rush settled,often in Bracken Co,Ky just s of s e Clermont-Brown, and in that 11 miles at the mouth of the Little Miami. For those people,we use Howard Leckey's great book, "The Tenmile country,and it's Pioneer Families" [very sw Pa], Horn Papers Vol 3 [only]"; 1790 census index of Washington Co,Pa , and there is a good book on the early forts near Cincinnati by sp? Shymyhorn sp? Anderson and Columbia townships, NW Territory was that mile + bottom 2nd very early settlement was in the Ohio River bottoms,and nearby mill sites on creeks. And nearby hilltop tablelands. Rt 133 AND RT 52,in particular. And up RT 133 [Bullskin Trace] to Bethel [1797] and Williamsburg[1796] . Sometimes the bottoms on the Ohio River are all on the Ohio side.Sometimes all on the Ky side. Often,you can tell with a normal map by seeing where the villages are. Levanna,only? has zero bottom. And the west ends of Ripley and Maysville have none. Rt's 125 and 222 S had a 1798 settlement of the sw Pa ,vis s Louisville,people. One should remember,hunters,and maybe squatters,were ahead of what I type, and built rude cabins for shelter at salt licks,etc. Before Indian peace. I should mention the settlers west of the Little Miami were from NJ way out of proportion with other colonies,for NJ land speculators,owned,and advertized in NJ ,3,000,000 ACRES between the Miami's,from 1788. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.