Southern Maryland’s Moll Dyer Will the real Moll Dyer please stand up? I’ve been asked similar questions like this since the recent resurgence of interest in Moll’s story. This can be seen by our county commissioners establishing February 26 th as Moll Dyer Day. Then the Weather Channel’s broadcast about her, an upcoming movie, and several books attempting to narrow the search for her historically. All provide interesting and speculative insights to the life and times of our

They met a flatboat in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and floated the Ohio River down to Maysville. The women and children were left behind at the fortified Goodwin’s station while the men traveled overland to place their claims on the lands at Pottinger’s Creek. Now eight years later, most of the settlers flourished in the new land. Nelson County became part of the new state of Kentucky, but for Earnest, nothing was left of the optimistic man he once was. The hopes and dreams he