1838 — Nov 19, Drownings, Lock and Dam No. 3, Green River, Rochester, KY — 15

—  15  Collins and Collins. Historical Sketches of Kentucky, 1882, p. 43.[1]

Collins: “Nov. 19 – 15 men drowned at Dam No. 3 on Green river.”[2] (p. 43)

Sources

Collins, Lewis and Richard H. Collins. Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky By the late Lewis Collins, Judge of the Mason County Court. Revised, Enlarged Four-Fold, and Brought Down to the Year 1874, by his son Richard H. Collins (Vol. I). Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882. Accessed 2-16-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=xMM6AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Knight, Terry. “Lock and Dam #3 on the Green River at Rochester (KY).” Accessed 2-21-2015 at: http://www.korbo.com/geneo/No3_RochesterDamLocks.htm

[1] Have not been able to determine the nature or cause of the drownings. Additionally, this is the only source we have been able to locate for this event. One should be cautious with single-sourced information.

[2] Knight writes that the Lock and Dam #3 at Rochester was opened in 1838 – at highway 369 at point of Muhlenberg/Butler/Ohio counties.