…Charles Reed was an English Revolutionary veteran who chose to stay in America after the war. He married a Virginia girl, had a son, and became a skilled millwright. In 1800, after his wife died, Charles and son Samuel adventured into Kentucky. They experienced the Wilderness Trail, Boonesborough, and the growing city of Lexington before settling and building a grist-mill on Tygarts Creek in Northeast Kentucky. There they discovered a series of caves containing saltpeter, a mineral much needed in the production of gunpowder for the upcoming war with England. Samuel began mining the saltpeter and transporting it to a Lexington gunpowder mill. En route he met Victoria Carson again. She was not the young girl he had met on the Wilderness Trail years ago. She was…

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