by RobCo Explorers' Club | Apr 4, 2022 | History, Small Town
Jenny Blow Washington first arrived in Cedar Hill in 1802 with her sister, Sarah. One single document had changed the course of their lives. It read: “Whereas I Micah Blow of Sussex City hath bargained sold & delivered to Joseph and Andrew Washington two...
by RobCo Explorers' Club | Apr 4, 2022 | History
The stories of the men who first settled Tennessee are well known: James Robertson, Davy Crockett, and more. But what about the women who came with them? Lydia Kilgore’s husband, Thomas, was the first European to settle in Tennessee. In 1778, he had left Lydia and...
by RobCo Explorers' Club | Apr 1, 2022 | Historic Downtown, Springfield
Mary Elizabeth Dulin (or Mollie, as she was known) was born in 1865 in Hopkins, Kentucky. She married Neal Glenn in 1889 and they would move to Springfield shortly after, followed by Mollie’s parents and her brother, Hance. Neel and Hance went on to open Dulin,...
