Collection: Brookland Cemetery - Shepherdsville
Joseph Brooks and his young family came down the Ohio River in 1779 and settled in this area that today is known as Brooks, Kentucky. Kentucky was not yet a state and Bullitt County was not yet a county. Little settlement existed west of the Allegany Mountains. Only one year earlier in 1778 had George Rogers Clark’s small group of settlers camped on Corn Island to form the bare beginnings of Louisville, Kentucky. The country was wild. Indians and the settlers clashed often in the early days. Surveyor John Floyd was killed here crossing Brooks Run. The First Attorney General of Kentucky, Walker Daniel, was killed here as he approached Brooks Station.
The Brooks owned and operated a fortification known as Brooks Station along the Wilderness Trail (now Blue Lick Road, across from the Jewish Hospital in Bullitt County). Brooks Station was the last stop on the Trail for settlers heading west out of Virginia before they made it to Louisville, Kentucky.
Early settlers to Kentuck
The Brooks owned and operated a fortification known as Brooks Station along the Wilderness Trail (now Blue Lick Road, across from the Jewish Hospital in Bullitt County). Brooks Station was the last stop on the Trail for settlers heading west out of Virginia before they made it to Louisville, Kentucky.
Early settlers to Kentuck
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