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| Description: During the 18th century, James Harrod was one of America’s most notable explorers. He founded the very first settlement in Kentucky which became known as Harrodsburg. In 1792, the same year Kentucky officially became a state, Harrod was living in Harrodsburg with his wife and daughter. He decided to go into the wilderness on a hunting trip with two companions. Harrod never returned, and there were numerous theories about what happened to him. Some believed that Harrod deliberately abandoned his family and traveled to another part of the country. There were unconfirmed rumors that Harrod’s wife was often flirtatious with other men and may have had extramarital affairs. While Mrs. Harrod got remarried after his disappearance, she managed to get a divorce in 1804 on the grounds that she believed her husband was still alive. However, Mrs. Harrod had only used that as an excuse to get a divorce. In actuality, she believed her husband was murdered by one of his companions. Apparently, the real purpose of his trip was not to go hunting, but to find a silver mine for a mysterious man known only as “Bridges.” The third man who accompanied Harrod and Bridges on the trip claimed that Harrod disappeared after Bridges told him he was attacked by Native Americans, but the man never actually witnessed anything to support Bridges’s story. Later on, Bridges was seen pawning off some silver buttons which matched the buttons Harrod had on his shirt. Shortly thereafter, Harrod’s friends found a skeleton in a cave wearing a shirt with its buttons missing. In the end, the skeletal remains were left behind and never identified as Harrod, and Bridges disappeared before he could be questioned. The truth about what happened to James Harrod remains unknown. |
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