In 1766, Daniel Boone began exploring Kentucky’s rivers, forests, and mountains, including a river he saw potential in for powering grist mills to make flour.
Boone wrote of Dick’s River, “the river affords many excellent mill seats and will have plenty of water in the driest seasons.”
Joe Russell in a paper presented to the Harrodsburg Historical Society in 1984, also writes that in 1909 a young man named Louis Herrington read what Boone observed about what is now called Dix River.
