Catlettsburg, here incorrectly written Cadetsburg, is the seat of Boyd County, Kentucky. See Cuming's Tour, in our volume iv, p. 155, note 103.
The Sandy, or the Big Sandy, River (not creek), formed by the junction of Tug and Levisa forks, flows north to the Ohio River, separating the states of Kentucky and West Virginia. It drains an area of four thousand square miles, and is navigable for small steamboats to a distance of a hundred miles.
Hanging Rock, named for a high sandstone escarpment, is on the right bank of the river, three miles below Ironton.
For Greenupsburg and Governor Greenup, see Woods's English Prairie, in our volume x, p. 229, note 34.
Concerning the historic importance of the Scioto River, see Croghan's Journals, in our volume i, p. 134, note 102; and for the Ohio Canal, see Flint's Letters in our volume ix, p. 96, note 44.
Rockville, Adams County, Ohio, was laid out in 1830.—Ed.
[72] Adamsville, Muskingum County, Ohio, was laid out in 1832 by M. Adams.
For the early history of Manchester, Ohio, and its founder, General Nathaniel Massie, see Cuming's Tour, in our volume iv, p. 160, note 107.
Aberdeen, Brown County, Ohio, was laid out by Nathan Ellis in 1816.
For Ripley, see Woods's English Prairie, in our volume x, p. 233, note 41; for Vanceburg, see Cuming's Tour, in our volume iv, p. 165, note 111; for Maysville, see A. Michaux's Travels, in our volume iii, p. 35, note 23; and for Augusta, see Flint's Letters, in our volume ix, p. 148, note 69.