‘  TOUR 1 6 4II
j Right from Marion on State 91, a graveled road, to FORD’S FERRY, 11 m.,
,  across the Ohio River from Cave in Rock on the Illinois shore. Here on the Illinois
V  side early in the nineteenth century, Wilson’s Liquor Vault and House of Entertain-
. ment was operated. The place became infamous for deeds of villainy and licen-
~ tiousness committed by a band of about 45 men who operated here and at Hur-
H ricane Island, about 10 miles down the river. Wilson nnally lost his life at the
V l hands of one of his own men, who was tempted by the large reward offered for
. 7 Wilson’s head.
, 4 At 208.3 m. is the junction with State 297, a graveled road.
j _ Right on this road to TOLU (250 pop.), 11 m., on the Ohio River. Dr. W. D.
, . Funkhouser of the University of Kentucky has uncovered burial places as weH as
many ornaments and utensils of the prehistoric mound builders. Many of the
_ beads are of local Huor spar.
{   SALEM, 219.1 m. (32 pop.), a hamlet in the center of a fertile
_ j valley, is on the western slope of a low hill. The old log houses of the
; early settlers who came here with their slaves from Virginia and Caro-
lina, once dotted this region. There is nothing now in old Salem to
i I  indicate that from 1798 to 1842 it was the seat of Livingstone County.
_ ‘ When in 1842 the county seat was transferred to Smithland most of
' , the inhabitants, together with the county officials and lawyers, moved
. away.
G ` The GRAVE or Lucy jarrmasou LEWIS (R), 231.2 m., is marked by
_  a granite shaft. Lucy jefferson, only sister of Thomas jefferson, was
born in Virginia in 1752 and in 1808 moved to Kentucky with her
I husband, Dr. Chas. Lilburn Lewis, from Albemarle County, Virginia.
( She was the youngest child of the jefferson family. The Lewises,
r . imbued with the current enthusiasm for the West, migrated to Ken-
0 · tucky and settled on a lonely, rocky hillside-—now known as Lewis
n Hill-overlooking the Ohio River, part of a military grant given Lewis
ir as a reward for his services in the American Revolution. Dr. Lewis
d ‘ was said to have been of an unsociable nature, given to moods and
'l queer mannerisms. He soon tired of his Kentucky home and left his
Y family, supposedly to return to his large Virginia estate. It is said
H that Lucy jefferson Lewis also pined for her Virginia home but she
?‘ . died here in 1811.
d A US 60 crosses the Lucy IEFFERSON LEWIS MEMORIAL Biznno (tall
'C ` 5 0¢ ), 234 m., which spans the willow-hung Cumberland River, near the
H K point where the stream ends its winding journey of 687 miles.
V . SMITHLAND, 234.6 m. (286 alt., 519 pop.), spreads along a high
*3 j bluff, above the confluence of the Ohio and the Cumberland. This _
*8 _; quiet little village was once looked upon as the coming metropolis of
is this entire region. Its heyday was in the days when both the Ohio
m *  and the Cumberland teemed with commerce. From Pittsburgh and
W ` from New Orleans came the floating passenger palaces and great freight
Ve .“ carriers. Smithland’s busy wharves served as a transfer point for pas-
¤» I sengers and cargoes bound for inland points.
I Christian Schultz, who visited Smithland in 1807, wrote of the early