Photographs courtesy of Kitty Taylor
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The rock spring on Bealls Branch 800 feet south marks Spring Fort. One of the pioneer "Beargrass settlements11 contemporary
with the founding of Louisville. When Its commander, Richard Steele, was wounded in an Indian attack at Floyd's first fort,
his wife seized her baby and, riding through the night amid shots from the red men, sped up what is now Story Avenue
across Beargrass Creek and Lexington Road and through the fort's hastily opened gateway to the succor of her husband. Photographs courtesy of Kitty Taylor |
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