Capt. Robert Johnson and Big Crossing Station

Wikipedia also records the names Great Buffalo Crossing and the Crossing, and places Georgetown about three miles east. A post office operated there from 1811 to 1905.

The state marker at the community says he moved from Beargrass to Bryan’s Station in 1780, represented Fayette County in the Virginia Assembly, served as surveyor of Kentucky, and led frontier defense from 1787 to 1793. He was a trustee of Georgetown, a Scott County justice, sat in the Kentucky legislature in 1802, and was a member of both constitutional conventions, in 1792 and 1799.

Tradition on that marker holds that his wife, Jemima Suggett Johnson (1753–1814), led the women of Bryan’s Station to the spring for water just before the August 1782 siege. The Johnsons were charter members and land donors of Great Crossing Baptist Church. Three sons sat in Congress in 1825: Representatives James and John T. Johnson and Senator Richard M. Johnson, who became vice president in 1837. Robert and Jemima are buried in the church cemetery with five of their eleven children.

With John Craig he later gave the land for Wilmington, the Boone County town renamed Burlington. The map pin is Great Crossing on North Elkhorn.