Records, 1780-1883 (bulk 1780-1813).
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Locust Grove.
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Locust Grove was built (1790 ca.) by Major William Croghan, a Revolutionary War soldier, land surveyor, Louisville businessperson and civic leader, and his wife Lucy Clark Croghan. It became the last home of Lucy Croghan's brother, General George Rogers Clark in 1809, when he moved to Locust Grove after the amputation of his right leg. He died there in 1818. Locust Grove was subsequently owned by two other families, the James Paul family (1878 - 1883) and the Richard Wat...
Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818
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Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest in the latter half of the 18th century. From the description of Documents, 1778-1818. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287330 American Revolutionary Colonel in the Old Northwest. Clark first came to Detroit from Cleveland in 1817, and was followed by his parents in a commercial fisherman and deputy collector of customs in China, Mich. (from M.P.C., I, 501-507: Clark's "Recollections".) (blue ...
