Georgetown and Royal Spring

John McClelland of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, built a cabin above it in 1775 and threw up a stockade. Floyd later transferred the tract after finding the family already on the ground. An attack on December 29, 1776, killed McClelland, and the station emptied in 1777.

Baptist preacher Elijah Craig brought a congregation from Orange County, Virginia, laid out Lebanon on the same spring, won a 1784 Virginia charter, and in 1790 renamed the place George Town for Washington. Scott County's seat still drinks from Royal Spring, the karst water that sited the town.