https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/mary-draper-ingles-escapes-through-kentucky-1755/ https://kyhistorydrive-videos.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/videos/mary-ingles/poster.jpg Follow the River Home: Mary Draper Ingles In July 1755 a Shawnee war party struck Draper's Meadow on the Virginia frontier and carried Mary Draper Ingles, then about twenty-three and pregnant, west with her two young sons. After the long march to the Ohio villages she was put to work at a salt-making camp at Big Bone Lick in what is now Boone County—among the earliest recorded European women on Kentucky ground. https://kyhistorydrive-videos.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/videos/mary-ingles/pilot-full.mp4 310 2026-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 yes no