The Shawnee Trail was later used by soldiers, explorers, cowboys, and pioneers. The deep meadows, now called the “Wagon Yard,” around Hall’s Branch made an ideal resting place for trail drivers to bed their cattle for the night and for pioneers to camp during their journey.
W.C. McKamy would sell firewood and water to the settlers heading west along Preston Road, who would camp at the Frankford wagon yard. Some of the settlers stayed, bought land, and raised their families in the general vicinity of Frankford. Eventually there was a small town of about 80 residents.
