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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Carrollton and Carroll County were named in honor of the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland.

Carroll County has many fishing opportunities and is home of our Carrollton County Ohio River Regional on October 27th. 

If you are fishing that event, or just in the area, you may be surprised at all of rich history of the area.

Explorer, James McBride is recorded to be the first to set foot on this land in 1754. He was traveling down the Ohio River in October 1754 in a canoe on exploration.

Following the end of the French and Indian War in 1760, Colonel William Peachy of Virginia was given a land grant by the British government for his loyal service. This two thousand acre tract was located at the point where the Kentucky River emptied into the Ohio River.

Woodsman Simon Kenton camped at the mouth of the Kentucky River in 1771, James Harrod and a group of settlers camped in this spot in May of 1774 before traveling further and settling what is now known as Harrodsburg. In 1784, a family named Elliot built a blockhouse on this spot. It was burned in 1785. In 1787, a Captain Ellison built another blockhouse, he left within two years. In 1791, General Charles Scott completed a larger blockhouse, elevated and fortified with picket palisades, as a base for his Kentucky Volunteers. This spot is marked at Point Park by a Historic Road Marker.

The many of the settlers who came to the valley had ventured down the Ohio River on keel boats from as far as Pittsburgh. Others traveled by foot and beast across the buffalo traces from Virginia through the Cumberland Pass.

Carrollton and Carroll County were named in honor of the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland. Charles Carroll was born in Annapolis, Maryland on September 19, 1737. Carroll’s grandfather, Charles Carroll the Settler, an Irish gentleman, emigrated from England to Maryland due to the persecution of Catholics on October 1688.

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