BARCLAY PLACE: A this time, little is known of this old plantation other than that Dr. John Kell purchased it in 1852. The exact location is not determined; however, the tract included an old ford on Bullock’s Creek, about three miles southeast of Hickory Grove. Some years later a bridge was constructed over the ford and is now commonly known as the “Kell Bridge.” According to local historian James L. Strain who wrote his recollection in the first half of the twentieth century, Dr. Kell built a “fine residence [in the area] that cost a large sum of money.” During the Revolution, British Colonel Banister Tarleton somewhere near the ford killed an old man by the name of Fleming.
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