McFadin's Station

Historical marker location:

Bowling Green, Kentucky

( KY 1402, Porter Pike, Bowling Green)

First settlement in Warren County, 1/4 mi. east, was on north side of Barren River near mouth of Drake's Creek. Andrew McFadin, Rev. War soldier from N.C., surveyed area and established station, 1785. It was a popular stopover on Cumberland Trace. Emmett Logan, a Louisville Times editor, once owned land where station stood. Henry Watterson was frequent visitor to his home.

Creeks Cumberland Trace Forts and Stations Revolutionary War Rivers

The famous Hatfield-McCoy feud, a long-running and violent conflict between two Appalachian families, began in Kentucky in the late 19th century.