Tygarts Creek Trail

Olive Hill


Contemporaneous reports tell us that the raiding party 
escaped to Tygarts Creek, at which point they divided, 
with one group tracking Tygarts Creek downsteam to  
the north and the Ohio River, while the other party 
proceded east and tracked the Little Sandy River 
north to the Ohio.

The Tygarts Creek was a well-used and efficient
route to and from central Ohio and eastern Kentucky. 
The Little Sandy had the disadvantage of joining 
with the Ohio some 30 miles east of the Scioto River. 

The most likely route between the Tygarts Creek and the 
Little Sandy River is the channel of Big Sinking Creek. 
At Olive Hill, the distance between the two water ways 
is measured in hundreds of yards, and once oriented, 
the route is quite direct and easily traversed.