1307 Buffalo Road

Category: Markers

Marker reads, Buffalo herds opened first road in wilderness to present site of Owensboro. Bill Smothers the pioneer settler of Yellow Banks, followed trail from Rough Creek, near present day Hartford, to Ohio River. Built his cabin at the end of the road, near here, 1797-1798. An old court record says the buffalo road was a place of great resort for that kind of game. Buffalo herds opened first road in wilderness to present site of Owensboro. Bill Smothers the pioneer settler of Yellow Banks, followed trail from Rough Creek, near present day Hartford, to Ohio River. Built his cabin at the end of the road, near here, 1797-98. An old court record says the buffalo road was a place of great resort for that kind of game.