Corn Island (Kentucky)
Coordinates: 38°15′44″N 85°45′33″W / 38.26222°N 85.75917°W
Corn Island is a now-vanished 7-acre (28,000 m2) island in the Ohio River, at head of the Falls of the Ohio, just north of Louisville, Kentucky.
Estimates of the size of Corn Island vary with time as it gradually was eroded and became submerged. A 1780 survey listed its size at 43 acres (170,000 m2). At that point it extended from what is now Louisville's Fourth Street to Fourteenth.
The Louisville Cement Company extracted rock for cement in the 19th century, and the removal of trees from the island contributed to erosion, which combined to sink much of the island by 1895. The island was flooded by the construction of a dam in the 1920s. It now lies permanently underwater.
Corn Island was first surveyed in 1773 by Thomas Bullitt's party and called Dunmore's Island (after John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Crown Governor of Virginia). Surveying expeditions like this helped to provoke Dunmore's War the following year.
During the American Revolutionary War, the island was settled on May 27, 1778 by George Rogers Clark's militia and 60 civilian settlers, who remained behind when Clark's party departed on June 24. Clark established the farming colony on the island as a communication post to support his famous military campaign in the Illinois Country.
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