Posts for the Pike County Historical Society
Surveying Big Sandy 1772-1798 Very little has been written on the history of the Big Sandy Valley prior to the establishment of Floyd County in 1800. The first explorers and settlers in present-day Kentucky bypassed this mountainous region on their way to fertile land in the Bluegrass. Between 1738 and 1792, the year Kentucky became …
Introduction At the request of officers of Pike County Historical Society, LLC, Fred T. May will provide a series of articles from his research on early Pike County records of general interest to the organization. In 1983, Fred began research on his May ancestors in Eastern Kentucky. His parents and grandparents were not living but …