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Ruddles Mills
After the Revolutionary War, Isaac Ruddle was able to overcome his reputation as a surrender monkey. The decision to surrender had rankled some of his cohort. Ruddle returned to Kentucky and established a mill town a few miles upstream from the station he lost to Captain Henry Byrd and the Shawnee. Nestled in a valley at the confluence of Stoner and Hinkston Creeks, Ruddles Mills is still going, though in reduced circumstances. Other settlers didn’t fare so well. Some 200 were held at Chilicothe for 15 years. Two of Ruddle’s sons were adopted by the Shawnee and took native wives.
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