There were a series of dams built along the Ohio River from 1910 through the 1920's, and later replaced by today's larger dams.  The earlier series didn't raise the river levels nearly as much as today's dams have.  Original plans called for Dam #40, in the first series, to be built just above Milton, but the Louisville lock and dam provided a higher pool level than anticipated, and the dam above Milton was abandoned in the fall of 1929.

Remember when the Licking River flowed north to Hamilton, Ohio, and the Kentucky River turned northeast at Carrollton and headed for Cincinnati?  No? That’s because you were born after the last glacier left the area.  Read all about it, here.

Milton, Ky., Feb. 8 [1905] - The strange sight of a funeral procession crossing the Ohio river on the ice was witnessed here.  Mrs. Elizabeth Holsclaw, 80, died at Kent, Ind., and as she lived at this place, it was determined that the interment should be in the cemetery here."  from the Warsaw Independent, February 11, 1905.