Killian Creek - builder
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The builders name:
Gullian Gerig he anglicized his name on his own to Killian Kreek, or Killian Creek, and other variants.
Killian Creek built a grist mill located on Beaver Valley Road on the Beaver Creek, Glasgow in Barren County, Kentucky. It was built in 1799-1800, it is still standing. When selling the property they signed their German names, Gullian and Margaret Greig.
The mill was on the cover of the South Central Kentucky Historical and Genealogical Society, "Traces of South Central Kentucky" Glasgow, KY: Volume 10, Issue 3, Fall 1982.
"On the Cover. Our cover picture...is of the old mill that stands on Beaver Creek...three miles west of Glasgow. The mill site was approved by the Warren County Court on May 1, 1798 and the mill was built shortly thereafter by stone mason Killian Kreek.
The county boundaries changed. On May 10, 1799,
Barren County, Kentucky was formed from Green and Warren Counties.
Glasgow became a part of Barren Co., and no longer Warren Co., so the mill with a 'Warren Co., building permit' was now in the new Barren Co.
When Killian sold the mill to Simon Buford in October of 1799,
Killian and Margaret signed the deed with their German names 'Gullian Grieg and Margarett Grieg.' The mill has been known as Kreek's Mill, Buford's Mill..."
The mill is historically significant, because it is 1799 architecture and was of a high quality. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
I am a 6th great grandson to Killian Creek.
--->> New pictures of the mill -- Killian Creek's Grist Mill, June 8, 2006
Note about the pictures:
Unfortunately, the top of the mill was deterioriating by the late 1950s.
Because of this the top floors were removed and a new roof was installed, making the building much shorter. It is a shadow of its former self.
Gibson Co., IN in 1815 a Courthouse was built by Killain Creek. It was 1st Gibson County Courthouse in Princeton, Indiana.
Gibson County's 1st Court House
"The board of county commissioners ordered the county agent, Robert M. Evans, to let the contract for making brick for the construction of the first court house, at a cost of not to exceed five dollars and fifty cents per thousand. These bricks were made on the public square, near where they were needed.
The general plan of this first temple of justice for Gibson county was about as follows: The walls were of brick, thirty-three by forty feet in size; the foundation was laid eighteen inches below the surface of the ground; the height of the lower story was twelve feet; above the bottom of the sleepers, which were one foot above the
ground, the wall of the lower story was two and a half brick thick and the upper story two brick; there were two chimneys, with fire-places. The brick and all the material for the construction of the building were furnished by the county. Work was commenced September 1, 1814. The contractor was Killion Creek--that is, he laid the walls--and Samuel Hogue built the roof of this building and furnished timber for the window frames, etc., while John Decker had the contract for all inside finishing work. The painting was done by the brush of Samuel Boicourt. This structure stood and did good service for the new county for a quarter of a century, or until 1841, when it was thought wise to provide better quarters for the various county officials and the courts."[The first court house was occupied June of 1815.]
from: HISTORY OF GIBSON COUNTY INDIANA: HER PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY GIL R. STORMONT, B. F. BOWEN & CO, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1914
Killion CREEK was born about 1750 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
He died Gibson Co., Indiana.
He was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Indiana, but it must be now unreadable.
Guillian Greig was in Pittsylvania County, Virginia in the first census of the U. S. of Virginia and of definite German Orgin.
Killion Creek is listed in the 1790 census for Fayette County, Kentucky.
Second census of Kentucky, 1800 Killion Kreek was listed in Warren County, Kentucky.
He contracted as a stonemason on the Princeton Courthouse.
Killian is on the 1810 Warren County, Kentucky census page 246.