Note 163 — Evans’s Pedestrious Tour of Four Thousand Miles—1818 (continued 4)
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Smithland, the capital of Livingston County, Kentucky, enjoyed considerable trade with the interior of Tennessee, being a point for the reshipment of goods up the Cumberland. Its prosperity was shortlived, however; in 1850 the population was twelve hundred, and in 1890 five hundred and sixty.—Ed.