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Fayette County – Gigantic Female

A TEN FOOT AND AN 8 FOOT GIANT

Benjamin Harding, Esq., to Doctor Mitchell, dated Missouri, March 16, 1831: “…an individual of the human race, measuring nearly ten feet in length which i have discovered in this western country.”  Map of Kentucky highlighting Fayette County Another account from the same county: The skeletons of an Indian giant eight feet high has been found in Fayette county.
  1. Litchfield enquirer. [volume], June 02, 1831, Image
  2. The Historical Magazine Antiquities. History and Biography of America, Vol. 1869.
  3. Alabama state intelligencer. [volume], May 25, 1831, Image 2
  4. Lynchburg Virginian. [volume], May 05, 1831, Image 2
  5. The Hartford Republican (Hartford, Ky.) December 18, 1891. 


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