For two centuries an aura of mystery has surrounded the long-lost legend of pioneer Kentucky's "Burnt Station" in eastern Fayette County. Pioneer texts preserved only enough information to paint a tantalizing portrait of an early frontier settlement founded on the banks of David Jones Creek, isolated amongst the timber and cane breaks of central Kentucky. Destined to become a primary crossroads between the pioneer settlements at Bryan's Station, Fort Lexington and Strode's Station, the settlement was from the beginning besieged by misfortune, famine and dangerous isolation. When hostile...