Home / Videos Videos Videos Films published by Kentucky History Drive. 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. About 5 minutes
