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On November 30, 1817, they reach Louisville, a town of 4,012 people (13 years before the opening of the Louisville and Portland Canal and the establishment of the Louisville Daily Journal).

Their journey would still require another 278.6 miles…

This journey would take them another 276 miles through much of the unsure terrain, where the Ohio Indian wars had only ended five years earlier.

Builder William Shannon's contract read, "There are to be two inside partition walls of stone from the foundation to the top, one foot thick. One chimney in each end, with two fireplaces in each chimney, said chimney to go up with said building, the…