A Herrington Lake Christmas

2025: CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF LAKE LIFE

In 1784, in John Filson's book Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucky (originally spelled Kentucke), we find the first telling of explorations by Colonel Daniel Boone, who wrote about the Dick's (later to become Dix) River, "the river affords many excellent mill seats and will have plenty of water in the driest seasons." Sugar cane in our region was plentiful, and there were many water-driven grist mills built along the river over the years. But, it was not until 140 years later that a water-driven mill of another kind, one that would generate electricity, was built. The Dix Dam Hydro-Electric Station was an industrial plant that the great pioneers of early Kentucky could not have even dream ...