Infobox River river name Licking River image name Licking river.jpg caption The mouth of the Licking River, where it joins the Ohio River origin Magoffin County, Kentucky mouth Ohio River basin countries length convert 303 mi elevation mouth elevation discharge convert 4221 cuft s m3 s abbr on watershed convert 3593 mi2 km2 abbr on The Licking River is a convert 303 mi km adj mid long ref name NHD U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high resolution flowline data. http viewer.nationalmap.gov viewer The National Map , accessed June 13, 2011 ref tributary of the Ohio River in northeastern Kentucky in the United States . The river and its tributaries drain much of the region of northeastern Kentucky between the watersheds of the Kentucky River to the west and the Big Sandy River Ohio River Big Sandy River to the east. Origin of name Image Licking River.jpg thumb 125px The Licking River near the Blue Licks Battlefield State Park The Indigenous peoples of the Americas Native Americans of the area called the river Nepernine . When the explorer Dr. Thomas Walker explorer Thomas Walker first saw it in 1750, he called it Frederick s River. An earlier name given by hunters and frontiersmen, Great Salt Lick Creek, makes reference to the many salt saline springs near the river that attracted animals to its salt lick s. The origin of the present name is unclear, though likely related to the previous name. ref name kye cite book editor Kleber, John E. others Associate editors Thomas D. Clark , Lowell H. Harrison, and James C. Klotter title The Kentucky Encyclopedia year 1992 publisher The University Press of Kentucky location Lexington, Kentucky isbn 0 8131 1772 0 chapter Licking River ref History Numerous aboriginal peoples inhabited the watershed for at least part of the year for several thousand years, but no tribal lands are recognized to have been displaced by European settlement. The Melungeon s a mysterious, pale Native American group occupied points on the ... more details
known as Indian, Portuguese or one of a variety of terms, such as Melungeon. In some cases, descendants ... descendants of the Saponi. They also identify as Melungeon , a historic mixed race group. Citation needed ... more details
African heritage. United States Melungeon testing Main Melungeon DNA testing Melungeon s are one ... examined the genetic makeup of families historically identified as Melungeon . Most results point ... provide additional Melungeon research materials with Y DNA and mtDNA tests, any test will allow comparisons with the results of current and past Melungeon DNA studies. General interest Cohanim ancestry ... more details
Infobox U.S. County county Louisa County state Virginia seal map Map of Virginia highlighting Louisa County.png map size 225 founded 1742 seat Louisa, Virginia Louisa area total sq mi 511 area land sq mi 497 area water sq mi 14 area percentage 2.67 pop estimate yr 2010 pop 33,153 density km2 20 web www.louisacounty.com Louisa County is a county United States county located in the Commonwealth U.S. state Commonwealth of Virginia . As of 2010, the population was 33,153. ref http www.coopercenter.org demographics . Weldon Cooper Center 2010 Census Count Retrieved September 9, 2011 ref The county seat is Louisa, Virginia Louisa . GR 6 History cleanup section date March 2009 File St John s Chapel Louisa County Virginia.jpg thumb left 200px St. John s Chapel, near Boswells Tavern, Louisa County, Historic American Buildings Survey Louisa County was established in 1742 from Hanover County, Virginia Hanover County . The county is named for Princess Louise of Great Britain , youngest daughter of King George II of Great Britain George II , and wife of King Frederick V of Denmark . Patrick Henry lived for some time in Louisa County on Roundabout Creek in 1764. Henry was being mentored at that time by the Louisa County magnate Thomas Johnson lawyer Thomas Johnson the representative of Louisa County in the House of Burgesses . In 1765, Patrick Henry won his first election to represent Louisa County in the House of Burgesses . At the end of the eighteenth century and in the early nineteenth century, numerous free mixed race families migrated together from here to Kentucky, where neighbors began to identify them as Melungeon . Citation needed date April 2010 The Virginia Central Railroad was completed through Louisa County in 1838 1840. During the American Civil War Civil War , it was an important supply line for the Confederate armies. As a result, several significant cavalry actions took place in the county, particularly one fought at Battle of Trevilian Station Trevilians in 186 ... more details
978 1 932278 68 2. ref and Melungeon ref See Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn , Mayhaven Publishing, Inc ... s ancestors included the abolitionist crusader Miner Steele Gowin, a Melungeon who operated an Underground ... more details
may have been an albino race. ref http archiver.rootsweb.com th read Melungeon 2003 12 1072640468 Melungeon L Archives, December 2003 ref John Haywood historian John Haywood also mentioned the legend ... more details
among Indians. Some Melungeon researchers claim Melungeons descend from these Ottomans. However, there is little ... 2009 06 melungeon myth of drake dropping off.html debunked . Some anthropologists long questioned ... more details
The following is an incomplete list of lists of ethnic group s Linguistic phylum based Further List of language families By alphabet A class wikitable sortable Name Country Population Notes Abazins flag Russia Karachay Cherkessia, Adygea , flag Turkey , flag Armenia 50,000 Abenaki people Abenaki flag Canada Quebec , Nova Scotia , USA Vermont , New Hampshire , Maine 12,000 Indigenous peoples of the Americas Native Americans Abipones flag Argentina extinct Abkhaz people Abkhazs flag Georgia , flag Turkey , flag Russia , flag Abkhazia 200,000 600,000 Indigenous Australians Aboriginal Australians flag Australia 550,000 Indigenous peoples of Australia Abron flag Ghana , flag C te d Ivoire 1,200,000 Acadians flag Canada Canadian Maritimes , flag United States Madawaska, Maine 500,000 French Canadians Accohannock flag United States Maryland Native Americans in the United States Native Americans Achang flag China Yunnan 29,000 Acelmese flag Indonesia 1,200,000 Acholi people Acholi flag Uganda Luo family of ethnic groups Luo people Achomawi flag United States California 1,500 band of the Pit River tribe of Native Americans in the United States Native Americans Acoma Pueblo Acoma flag United States southwest , flag Mexico 5,000 Indigenous peoples of the Americas Native Americans Adi people Adi flag India Arunachal Pradesh Adjarians flag Georgia Adjara 70,000 sub group of Georgians of the Islamic religion Adyghe people Adyghe flag Russia North Caucasus region , flag Turkey 6,000,000 Adyhaffe people Adyhaffe Citation needed date June 2011 Aeta flag Philippines Afar people Afar flag Ethiopia , flag Eritrea , flag Djibouti 5,000,000 Also known as Danakil African American flag United States 40,000,000 citizens of the United States descended from West Africa n slaves or otherwise of African ancestry African Canadian flag Canada 800,000 may include West Indian and Afro Caribbean peoples in Canada African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem flag Israel 5,000 an ethnic minority of black pe ... more details
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