Eskippakaithiki

Eskippakaithiki was a Shawnee village in the Kentucky country, near the place later called Indian Old Fields. It lay along the Warriors' Path, a route connecting the Ohio valley with lands to the south. Traders knew the settlement as Blue Lick Town, a name recalling the salt licks of the surrounding countryside.

The village appears in accounts and maps from the middle of the eighteenth century. A group of English traders returning from Cherokee country was robbed near it in 1753. Shawnee people may have established the settlement only a few years earlier and left it around 1754, when attacks by Catawba enemies threatened the community. A map published in 1755 placed it along the Warriors' Path. Later visitors remembered the fields and the village that had stood there.