Black plaque № 44937

Mary Ingles. Said to have been first white woman in Kentucky. Captured by Indians in Virginia, July 1755, and taken to Ohio. Later she escaped a salt-making party at Big Bone Lick and made her way across the Kentucky wilderness back to Virginia. Originally dedicated June 15, 1963. For more informati

on, see ExploreKYHistory: Mary Ingles and ExploreKYHistory: Mary Draper Ingles — Silver Grove, KY 8 at Oak St.

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