East Bend is a region of
Boone County, Kentucky
Boone County is a county located on the Ohio River in the northernmost part of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 135,968, making it the fourth-most populous county in Kentucky. Its county seat is Burlingt ...
, about 20 miles southwest of
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...
. The region is well named; there the
Ohio River
The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi Riv ...
makes an almost right angle turn, and flows east for ten miles or more. On the Kentucky side of the river, the land is mostly bottom land and good farm land. Points on interest are the river towns of
Belleville,
Mcville,
Rabbit Hash,
Piatt's Landing and
Hamilton
Hamilton may refer to:
* Alexander Hamilton (1755/1757–1804), first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
* ''Hamilton'' (musical), a 2015 Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
** ''Hamilton'' (al ...
. There is a salt spring at
Big Bone Lick
Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone, Kentucky, Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. Mammoths are believed to have been drawn to this location by a salt lic ...
where
mastodon
A mastodon, from Ancient Greek μαστός (''mastós''), meaning "breast", and ὀδούς (''odoús'') "tooth", is a member of the genus ''Mammut'' (German for 'mammoth'), which was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to ...
and
buffalo
Buffalo most commonly refers to:
* True buffalo or Bubalina, a subtribe of wild cattle, including most "Old World" buffalo, such as water buffalo
* Bison, a genus of wild cattle, including the American buffalo
* Buffalo, New York, a city in the n ...
bones have been found.
On the
Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...
side, the southern edge of the Bedford Limestone forms high rocky hills. Indiana towns are
Rising Sun and
North Landing.
Early settler families were Piatt, McCoy, Canby, Pepper, Stephens, Ryle, Wilson, Neal, Kirtley, Craig, Lodge, Goss and Gregory.
References
*https://web.archive.org/web/20091025150117/http://geocities.com/stevebottorff/Piatt/Piatt.htm
*Further history of the Piatts or Pyeatts can be found at https://www.angelfire.com/ar/pyeatt/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20041023064000/http://member-webroots.org/deadrelatives/piatt.html.
*Further details of John H. and Robert Piatt's dealings with the U.S. government is covered in http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamilt/howe/812.html.
*Further history of the Canby family can be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kitgens/chapter8.htm.
Geography of Boone County, Kentucky
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