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ployed in Indiana, was hailed before the squire after he had rowed a passenger to Sh
V a boat in midstream, which was blocked from the landmglby a sand bar. Though 18
unprepared in law, the 18-year—old Lincoln served as his own counsel and was
exonerated. The house in which the trial was held is a two-story weatherboarded Ol
log structure, built about 1822. Near it, in an old cemetery, is the well-marked Tl
Grows or CAROLINE THRASHER (nee Meeker), said to have been a sweetheart of ap
Lincoln’s. _ ° U_
MACEO, 115.1 m. (100 pop.), is on the site of Rosebud, a village  
laid out by a group of railroad officials. Difficulties arose over the Ul
title to the property, and Rosebud wilted away. Later a settlement PC
was established here and named Powers’ Station in honor of Col. ]. S. to
Powers, an official of the L. H. & St. L. R.R. When a post office was · th
granted, the name was changed to Maceo to avoid confusion with V m
Powers’ Store, another post Off1C€ in Daviess County. Maceo honors fel
Capt. Alonzo Maceo, a mulatto, who was one of the leaders in Cuba’s I de
war for independence from Spain. Its population is made up largely Q N
of Negroes, many of whom were given land here by their masters at to
the close of the War between the States. The village is a shipping f or
point for molding clay dug in the vicinity. W
A time-honored occasion in almost any Negro settlement in Kentucky bi
is the "chittlin" feast. Commonly known in this State as Kentucky
oysters, chitterlings (hog intestines) may be prepared in several dif- K
ferent ways. The old-time Negro cook usually buys them by the pail, fa
cleans and soaks them in salt water, then either boils them until they - la
are tender or fries them in grease. Potato salad and hard cider fre- bl
quently comprise the rest of the menu. Fondness for chitterlings is
not entirely confined to Negroes. One well—known Kentucky Congress- th
man, it is said, annually made a trip from Washington to his home g  M
State for "a good mess of chittlins."
Left from Maceo on an unmarked graveled road to CARPENTER LAKE ( fish- G
ing), 2.5 m., formed in 1937 by the construction of an earth-iill dam 377 feet long. W·
Carpenter Lake, the mecca of anglers in this section of western Kentucky, is owned i d(
by the State -and is under the supervision of the State Department of Conservation. c(
Along its four~m1le tree-bordered shore are many cottages.
OWENSBORO, 124.7 m. (765 alt., 22,765 pop.), second largest city fr
in western Kentucky, is a bustling oil town on the bank of the Ohio at
River. It is in an agricultural area at the northern edge of the western cc
Kentucky coal fields. Owensboro was first known as Yellow Banks, BJ
because of a six-mile stretch of unusual yellow clay on the banks of  
the river here. In 1815, when Daviess County was formed, Yellow ~ or
Banks was chosen county seat and its name changed to Rossborough to a
honor David Ross, the owner of much property. A charter granted in s  
1866 renamed it Owensboro for Col. Abraham Owen, a Virginian who
came to Kentucky, took an important part in the early Indian wars,
and fell at the Battle of Tippecanoe. Daviess County was named for R
Col. joseph Hamilton Daviess, also slain in the Battle of Tippecanoe. .  fi
Colonel Daviess—who married Nanny Marshall, sister of john Mar- T si