Solomon Stratton

Solomon Stratton

Solomon Stratton (1745-1818) was an American soldier and explorer born in New River, Amherst County, VA. In 1771, as a member of the Virginia militia he fought in the Battle of Alamance in 1771, was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and George Rogers Clark's 1778 expedition to Illinois in which Fort Kaskaskia was captured from the British. In 1788, Solomon, accompanied by his sons, explored the Southern Appalachian region and in 1796 established one of the first settlements in what is now Eastern Kentucky. In 1797 he helped to found the city of Prestonsburg, Kentucky. He died in 1818 near present day Stanville, Kentucky and was buried in an unmarked grave near the Big Sandy River.

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Kentucky Historical Society (Marker number: 690)


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