The Big Sandy Valley
History of the People and the Country
From the Earliest Settlement
To the Present Time 
By Dr. William Ely, 1887
500 Pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable


-     Bonus -
Eastern Kentucky Papers
The Founding of Harman’s Station
With An Account . . . of the Exploration
And Settlement of the Big Sandy Valley in 
Kentucky and Virginia
By William Elsey Connelley, 1910
277 pages, Illustrated, Searchable



-     Bonus -
Report on Lands
In the Counties of Wise and Buchanan, VA
And McDowell West Virginia
Published 1900
8 pages, Searchable



 
 
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The Big Sandy River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 29 mi long, in western 
West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky in the United States. The river forms part of the boundary
 between the two states along its entire course. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the Mississippi 
River watershed.
 
It is formed between Louisa, Kentucky and Fort Gay, West Virginia by the confluence of the
 Tug Fork and Levisa Fork. It flows generally northwardly in a highly meandering course, 
between Lawrence and Boyd Counties in Kentucky and Wayne County in West Virginia. It joins
 the Ohio between Catlettsburg, Kentucky and Kenova, West Virginia, 8 mi  west of Huntington,
 West Virginia, at the common boundary between West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.
The river is navigable and carries commercial shipping, primarily coal mined in the immediate region.
　
“The founding of Harman's Station on the Louisa River Was directly caused by a tragedy as 
dark and horrible as any ever perpetrated by the savages upon the exposed and dangerous 
frontier of Virginia. The destruction of the home of Thomas Wiley in the valley of Walker's 
Creek, the murder of his children, the captivity of his tvife by savages and her miraculous 
escape were the first incidents in a series of events in the history of Kentucky which properly
 belong to the annals of the Big Sandy Valley. Over them time has cast a tinge of romance, and
 they have grown in historical importance for more than a century.
 
“Thirteen years after the establishment of the first permanent
white settlement of Kentucky at Harrodsburg a strong healthy settlement of hardy, bold,
 self-reliant backwoodsmen was made in what is now Johnson County. Among the founders of this
 settlement were a number of the most noted explorers, scouts, guides, riflemen, and Indian 
fighters ever developed by the harsh and dangerous times of the frontier days of Virginia and
 the Carolinas.
 
“Why some substantial account of the station founded by these men in that wilderness was
 not made a matter of record by some historical writer of those times is one of the strange
 things occasionally found in the annals of a State. In the company which made this 
settlement were Matthias Harman, Henry Skaggs, James Skaggs, and Robert Halves, 
all members of that famous party known in history as the Long Hunters.”
 
Big Sandy Valley - Counties
Kentucky
Greenup
Boyd
Lawrence
Martin
Pike
West Virginia
Wayne
Mingo
McDowell
Virginia
Tazewell
Buchanan
 
The Tug Fork
is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, 159 miles long, in southwestern West
Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Kentucky in the United States. Via
the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi
River.
 

The Tug Fork
rises in the Appalachian Mountains of extreme southwestern West Virginia, in
southern McDowell County, near the Virginia state line. It flows in a
meandering course through the mountains generally northwest, past Welch.
Approximately 20 miles northwest of Welch, it briefly forms approximately 4
miles of the state line between West Virginia (northeast) and Virginia
(southwest). For the remainder of its course it forms part of the boundary between
West Virginia (east) and Kentucky (west), flowing northwest past Williamson,
West Virginia. It joins the Levisa Fork at Louisa, Kentucky to form the Big
Sandy.
 

The river
flows through an especially remote mountainous region in its upper course. The
river valley between Pike County, Kentucky and Mingo County, West Virginia was
the scene of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud in the late 19th century.
 

The Big Sandy
watershed includes the Virginia towns of Wise and Pound, West Virginia towns of
Bluefield, Welch, and Williamson, and the Kentucky towns of Pikeville, Prestonsburg,
and Paintville.
 

Running through Part
of Wise County Virginia, and through Dickenson County Virginia, The Pound River
is a 33.9-mile-long tributary of the Russell Fork in the U.S. state of
Virginia. Via the Russell Fork, the Levisa Fork, the Big Sandy River, and the
Ohio River, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. The Pound River is
noted for its trout fishery

 
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