Mighty Mississippi

Fort Jefferson Hill Park, Wickliffe, KY

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When explorer and woodsman Daniel Boone led a party of settlers through the Curnberland Gap to Kentucky, the

westward expansion of the United States continued. Eventuaily the state reached to the Mississippi with Missouri on the opposite bank. In 1821 Hickman County was founded and named for Captain Paschal Hiekman of the 1st Rifle Regiment Kentucky Militia. The original county seat was in Columbus on the Mississippi where a log building was erected in 1823. That location played an important role in the Civil War. In 1861 Confederate forces in Columbus fortified the bluffs to control river traffic under the command of General Leonipas Polk. My hand painted cachet depicts an early Kentuckian in a fringed hunting coat with his faithful dog standing on these bluffs overlooking the river. He represents the historical push westward up and down the river in the 1800s.