Zophar Carpenter's Fort
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Carpenter's Fort on McKenzie's Fork of Paint Lick Creek in Kentucky was established by Zophar Carpenter, a native of New York colony who migrated to western Virginia in the 1750s and to Kentucky about 1788.[1] The fort is also referred to as Zophar Carpenter's Station, and placed "near Suck Fork Creek".[2] Zophar Carpenter served as a drummer in Captain Dickenson's Company of Virginia Rangers in the French & Indian War.[3] He appeared on a 1792 tax list in Madison Co. KY with Edward Carpenter and John Carpenter.[4] He died on February 6, 1798, at age 65 and is interred in the Carpenter Graveyard near Paint Lick, Garrard County, Kentucky.[5]