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			[[File:Lower_Town_Precinct.jpg\|thumb\|right\|Map of Lower Town Precinct in 1876]]

			==Early History==
			Lower Town Precinct, lies to the west of Owensboro, between the Ohio
			River and Panther Creek. It contains some of the best soil and finest improvements in the County. The section of the county known as the [[Buzzard's Roost, Kentucky\|Buzzard Roost]]
			neighborhood is included within its limits. The term [[Buzzard's Roost, Kentucky\|Buzzard Roost]] was first
			applied to a limited district of country adjoining the farms of the Berrys and
			Mattinglys. The name is now given to all that part of the County north of
			the Henderson road, and extending west from Owensboro about twelve miles
			to the Green River. It contains some of the finest farming land to be found in
			the County, and is now thickly settled. The hills are underlaid with coal
			which has been mined to a considerable extent. A number of squatters settled
			early in this neighborhood, but never acquired actual possession of the land,
			and made but scanty improvements. As late as 1830, the whole region was
			undeveloped. A man named Galloway settled on the farm now owned by Mr.
			J. I. Berry, a man named Oldham where Miles Mattingly lived.

			Among the first permanent settlers who bought land and made improvements were
			Henry Reed, who owned the farm now occupied by Cole Fugua ; Miles and
			John Lancaster, John Bristow and Thomas I. Carico. John B. Berry bought
			land some years before the Mexican war, and his sons Edward C. Berry, J. I.
			Berry, and William L. Berry settled here and became permanent citizens.
			George Mattingly settled in the Buzzard Roost neighborhood in 1851. The
			Crabtree family were early settlers of this precinct, as also were the Calhoons,
			and others.

			[[Bon Harbor]], a small settlement, formerly of more importance than at
			present, is situated two miles below Owensboro. Thirty years ago the place
			was thought to bid fair to become a manufacturing town of some importance.
			The Bon Harbor coal mines were the first to be put in successful operation in
			the County. An old man named A. Bassett opened the first mine, and the Bon
			Harbor mine proper, three-fourths of a mile from the river, was next commenced to be worked. About 1830 a considerable quantity of coal was shipped
			to New Orleans from this point. A railroad ran from the mine to the river at
			the terminus of which the owners erected one of the largest cotton and woolen
			factories at that time in the West. Robert Triplett was the principal
			proprietor. At this point, a town was laid off and several houses built, the
			population being principally composed of operatives and numbering two or
			three hundred.

	==Towns in this Precinct==		==Towns in this Precinct==
	* [[Ash Valley]]		* [[Ash Valley]]

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==Towns in this Precinct==
* [[Ash Valley]]
* [[Bon Harbor]]
* [[Buzzard's Roost]]
* [[Herrwood]]
* [[Rome]]
* [[Sorgho]]

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