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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: [OHBROWN] Brown Co townships.
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:13:46 -0400


Perry is the northern most. Huge,and sitting up there alone since 1814.
Cut by
East Fork of the Little Miami. US RTS 50 and 68. St RTS 131 and 251.
Fayetteville
,ST Martin's, Vera Cruse. Tiny Chatham College at St Martins. Where
not well
drained by the East Fork,the township was too flat,and swampy. Many
Catholic
Immigrants from Europe drained the swamps.

4 townships front on the Ohio River,and just across,Mason and Bracken
Co,Ky.
Huntington is the s e most, and also cut by Eagle Creek. Aberdeen,across
from
Maysville,Ky is the main village. . US RTS 52 AND 68 AND 41 . Settled
very early

Next west is Union township, with RIPLEY ,and Red Oak. Cut by Eagle,Red
Oak,a
nd Straight Creeks. US RTS 52 AND 68. Ripley has tobacco sales
warehouses.

Next west is Pleasant,with a very few miles abutting the Ohio River
between Straight
and White Oak Creek. Georgetown is the county seat at US RT 68 and RT
125.
Tobacco has been a major crop 150 years.

The sw most is Lewis township,from White Oak creek [Higginsport] west to
Clermont Co [1818].
Cut by east Bullskin creek. Cemetaries at Shinkle's Ridge Christian,
Higginsport,and
Eden and Rose Hill, near Feesburg, and MT Zion. Augusta,Bracken Co,Ky is
just south across Boude's Ferry.

North of Lewis is Clark township.Hamersville,at RTS 125 and 774 ,West
edge had an
1800 settlement of Maine folk at Yankeetown.

Pike township is north of Clark. Only hamlet's like Locust Ridge,and it's
big nursing home.
US RT 68 and St rt 774. New Harmony cemetary,and Grant Lake.

Sterling Township is the last on the western border with Clermont. RT 32.
I do not have time to finish this


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