tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2209557824677286902024-03-13T02:10:32.802-04:00My Old Kentucky Back RoadsA blog dedicated to the historic buildings, people and places of our beautiful Commonwealth!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-6664912979793699272016-12-16T19:32:00.001-05:002016-12-16T19:32:46.966-05:00Choctaw Indian Academy<header id="story-header" style="-webkit-hyphens: none; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center; padding: 0px 12.796875px 0.5em;"><div class="instapaper_title entry-title"><h2 class="item-title" style="text-align: start; margin: 0.83em 0px 0.25em; -webkit-hyphens: none; font-variant-caps: small-caps; line-height: 1.1em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz8JCeb5DpSAa3MUr3DQasUysuXBKkOPYbeT_kBKuFVXvccgRPtlFr8Ur4IHn7GbczZTT4t6lUogtoX-9Ap8BTN5sYw4FpPnVtlln10tm3yM7w15J-ulYL4BNWVBx1Q8JBmKkGvM5mpxg/s640/blogger-image-1721979206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz8JCeb5DpSAa3MUr3DQasUysuXBKkOPYbeT_kBKuFVXvccgRPtlFr8Ur4IHn7GbczZTT4t6lUogtoX-9Ap8BTN5sYw4FpPnVtlln10tm3yM7w15J-ulYL4BNWVBx1Q8JBmKkGvM5mpxg/s640/blogger-image-1721979206.jpg"></a></div> </span></h2><h3 class="item-subtitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; font-weight: normal; -webkit-hyphens: none; font-variant-caps: small-caps;"></h3></div><span class="story-meta byline" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.6em; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div style="text-align: start;">By <a href="http://explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/browse?search=&advanced[0][element_id]=39&advanced[0][type]=is+exactly&advanced[0][terms]=Tim%20Talbott" style="max-width: 100%; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 226); padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: none;">Tim Talbott</a></div></span></header><div id="item-primary" class="show" style="padding-left: 12.796875px; padding-right: 12.796875px; padding-bottom: 0.5em;"><section id="text"><div class="item-description"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Historical Marker #135 in Scott County notes the location of the Choctaw Indian Academy. Established in 1818, it was later sponsored by future U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Johnson.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the end of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth century, as the population of Euro-American settlers increased and the threat of Native American attacks decreased, efforts were made to acculturate Indians who were willing to assimilate. </span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Before the Indian Removal Act of 1830, some tribes chose to remain in their home areas and adopted white ways of living. The Indians of the southeast, for instance, often chose to incorporate white forms of dress, marry white neighbors, and practice white agricultural methods. Some Native Americans even owned African-American slaves.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During this time, Kentuckian Richard M. Johnson was in a unique position to help acculturation projects. Johnson had gained fame for reputedly killing the great Shawnee warrior Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812. Johnson used that fame to forward his already budding political career. </span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 1818, the Baptist Mission Society of Kentucky started the Choctaw Indian Academy at Great Crossings, Kentucky, located near Georgetown and Johnson's home. The school soon failed, however, from a lack of funding. When some Choctaw Mississippi lands were ceded to the United States, the tribal leaders requested that some of the treaty money be used to fund educational initiatives. Therefore, they reached out to Johnson. The congressman, along with his brother-in-law, William Ward, the U.S. government agent for the Choctaw Nation in Mississippi, had the school restarted in 1821.</span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the Kentucky school, Choctaw boys were taught to speak English, as well as other foundational subjects including writing and arithmetic. In addition to academic subjects, some practical courses were taught. The school gained in popularity during the 1820s and 1830s, and had a record enrollment of 188 in 1835. During this period, other tribes also sent students and financial support to the institution. </span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The end of the school had its roots in the Indian Removal Act of 1830. That legislative action led to the migration of thousands of Native Americans to west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory, now present-day Oklahoma. There, many of the migrating tribes—including the Choctaw—started their own reservation schools and attendance began to dwindle at Johnson's Kentucky school. After the Choctaws eliminated their financial support for the school it soon closed in 1842.</span></p></div></section></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-32566004890441534882015-12-30T08:34:00.001-05:002016-12-16T19:24:34.156-05:00Longnecker Home<div>Antebellum home in Mason County between Maysville and Mayslick. Home of banker Benjamin Longnecker born 1804.</div><div><br></div><div>Built circa 1834 and known as Briar Hill farm</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdAOb-IfpnB7h179PUrL0kJWihCSh0pgHhyATm7AgtdUF7Un_ZtnTFRLYTIOUeR0kyDwsuv3tWDZ_k3xYsoT7IKVMiCqNjs0RQu3Mo-lQ_CqtJrcrJbLNnwpcDmyco_fzw_ebXsngWkc/s640/blogger-image-1312228460.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdAOb-IfpnB7h179PUrL0kJWihCSh0pgHhyATm7AgtdUF7Un_ZtnTFRLYTIOUeR0kyDwsuv3tWDZ_k3xYsoT7IKVMiCqNjs0RQu3Mo-lQ_CqtJrcrJbLNnwpcDmyco_fzw_ebXsngWkc/s640/blogger-image-1312228460.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-9535764337549676892015-11-18T18:46:00.001-05:002015-11-18T18:46:37.296-05:00Old and New Breathitt County Courthouse in Jackson<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRA6T0DjtAZbh6egJi8U-NXYohS8_Ze1ptFYvZk-qT_EtTLL98JtnYdG4vZ-TE8HQCv9twIdJTeJ2SeEs99eNXgZgnoaZkr9TOyT9sRYotBtupE-YYl3_P4vWpouG3qz-l24Nn-Y-ZqcM/s640/blogger-image-1677318157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRA6T0DjtAZbh6egJi8U-NXYohS8_Ze1ptFYvZk-qT_EtTLL98JtnYdG4vZ-TE8HQCv9twIdJTeJ2SeEs99eNXgZgnoaZkr9TOyT9sRYotBtupE-YYl3_P4vWpouG3qz-l24Nn-Y-ZqcM/s640/blogger-image-1677318157.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Breathitt County was formed on February 8, 1839 from portions of Clay County, Estill County and Perry County. It was named after Governor John Breathitt.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hyphenhyphenvgz-J3rIkTYxB0Tx4rAQka0A3aIU3zZXwgwwi_U5SA2MhX-NLx4SU7dV3wR7ncLWYNNKe5Xm4lQkV63LCtV4iO3LT8rmUhRNuQSC9Lun5FSrqrH9R5H3LoSKvHJbgGcjmWYQhG9R4/s640/blogger-image--840416724.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hyphenhyphenvgz-J3rIkTYxB0Tx4rAQka0A3aIU3zZXwgwwi_U5SA2MhX-NLx4SU7dV3wR7ncLWYNNKe5Xm4lQkV63LCtV4iO3LT8rmUhRNuQSC9Lun5FSrqrH9R5H3LoSKvHJbgGcjmWYQhG9R4/s640/blogger-image--840416724.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP61lMMVU7c2XrnKPJkRo6y_dSMtKRI-YCGZGYFLu2KiJEdmyvixjauTivvd-B-4cOKGI6CKo9HYYZezoFsRSSkewSLiKYZ0A6OPviIvI9Mz2gSs9GToPWyJopWLu5sGPV6GQWGNBYUtk/s640/blogger-image-962900527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Burial site of 7 Revoltionary War soldiers , Governor A. B. "Happy" Chandler and Lt. 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The hamlet's most notable building, the Rabbit Hash General Store, is regarded as the best known and best preserved <a href="file:///wiki/General_store" title="General store" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">country store</a> in Kentucky. 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">by Stephen Foster</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">'Tis summer, the people are gay;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">While the birds make music all the day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">All merry, all happy and bright;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">By 'n' by hard times comes a-knocking at the door</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">CHORUS</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Weep no more my lady</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Oh! weep no more today!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">For the Old Kentucky Home far away.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">They hunt no more for the possum and the coon,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">On meadow, the hill and the shore,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">On the bench by the old cabin door.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">With sorrow, where all was delight,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The time has come when the people have to part,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">CHORUS</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The head must bow and the back will have to bend,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Wherever the people may go;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">A few more days, and the trouble all will end,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">In the field where the sugar-canes grow;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">A few more days for to tote the weary load,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">No matter, 'twill never be light;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">A few more days till we totter on the road,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-62401653386654221052014-05-30T14:57:00.001-04:002014-05-30T14:57:52.911-04:00Downtown Danville | Kentucky Life | KET<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/c96egaAo9FY" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Danville is known as the City of Firsts in Kentucky, and its vibrant downtown helps this Boyle County town keep its top spot in Bluegrass culture and history.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The location of the first Kentucky courthouse in 1785, Danville was the first capital of Kentucky. It still takes the spotlight in politics, having hosted both the 2000 and 2012 vice presidential debates. Home to the first college and the first law school in the West, Danville today is home to Centre College, one of the top private liberal arts colleges in the country.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Downtown Danville boasts a vibrant Main Street filled with shops and restaurants, the Community Arts Center, as well as Constitution Square State Park and historic churches. In June, music fills the air during the Great American Brass Band Festival</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-51987940923892341832014-05-30T14:55:00.001-04:002014-05-30T14:55:47.451-04:00Jack & Matthew Jouett | Kentucky Life | KET<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7JqXD3Fne4Q" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">This historical marker segment recalls a famous father and son, one an unheralded war hero, the other a renowned artist.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The father, Jack Jouett Jr., played a little known but pivotal role in the American Revolution, saving Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature from capture by the British. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">On June 3, 1781, the young militia captain was enjoying himself at a tavern in Louisa, Virginia, when he happened to spy British troops riding in. He quickly surmised that they were on their way to Charlottesville, where Governor Jefferson and the legislature had fled after Benedict Arnold's raid on Richmond. Jack made a heroic, all-night 40-mile ride through back roads to sound the alarm at Monticello.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Virginia's legislature honored Jack for his bravery, awarding him two fine pistols and a sword. Although he is known by many Virginians as their own Paul Revere, his story has fallen into relative obscurity outside the state.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">After the war, Jack Jouett settled in what eventually became the state of Kentucky and raised a family. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">His second son, Matthew, displayed a talent for portraits at an early age. Nonetheless, Matthew followed his father's wishes and practiced law. He served in the War of 1812, but after the war was over he devoted his energies to his first love, art.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Already respected for his portraits, he sought to become even better. He studied in 1816 under the famous Gilbert Stuart, who said Matthew was the only student he had who was worthy of his teaching. Among the notable men of the era who sat for a portrait by Matthew were the Marquis de Lafayette and Henry Clay. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Matthew died young at age 39, but is renowned to this day as Kentucky's greatest painter.</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">On the night of June 3-4, 1781, Captain John "Jack" Jouett, Jr. rode 40 miles through the backwoods of Virginia to warn Governor Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of the approach of 250 British troops.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jack Jouett's heroic act saved the American Revolution by preventing the capture of its most important political leaders.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jouett migrated to the Bluegrass after the war, where he played an important role in the Kentucky statehood convention, served in the legislature, and became a prosperous planter and breeder of fine horses and cattle.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He and his wife Sally Robards reared twelve children, including renowned portrait painter Matthew Harris Jouett.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This rural homestead includes a 1780's frontier stone cabin, used as a kitchen by the Jouetts. The 1797 Federal-style brick house features a formal parlor, a dining room, and three bedrooms. Period furnishings complement the rooms.</span></div>
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"Happy" Chandler's Old Kentucky Home<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fsQj46swDvI" width="459"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-31511221859679804342014-02-03T23:50:00.001-05:002014-02-03T23:50:51.681-05:00Old Talbott Tavern Bardstown<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Old Talbott Tavern</b>, also known as the <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Old Stone Tavern</b>, a historic tavern built in 1779, is located in the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardstown_Historic_District" title="Bardstown Historic District" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Bardstown Historic District</a> of <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardstown,_Kentucky" title="Bardstown, Kentucky" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Bardstown, Kentucky</a>, across from the historic Nelson County Courthouse. It was placed on the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">National Register of Historic Places</a> on October 30, 1973. 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Crittenden, Kentucky Governor, 5 time US Senator and US Attorney General. Built by his father in 1783. Located in Woodford County off US 60 near Versailles.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtu_mEQ5DD9jgTUEM07KpXWP1bJ5RjAx5MKCI17ML8gtAqX9y-ThFImTDj5Q-Tm7L4PAyYvQqfbBOVGDzPNGXTFq7WRwbXFVlziLqmDNdDVxag54xbtd7kz_Ch-v-2hXfYme3CDiakKDw/s640/blogger-image--1700318677.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtu_mEQ5DD9jgTUEM07KpXWP1bJ5RjAx5MKCI17ML8gtAqX9y-ThFImTDj5Q-Tm7L4PAyYvQqfbBOVGDzPNGXTFq7WRwbXFVlziLqmDNdDVxag54xbtd7kz_Ch-v-2hXfYme3CDiakKDw/s640/blogger-image--1700318677.jpg"></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-53551792698719077462013-10-08T20:28:00.001-04:002013-10-08T20:30:29.649-04:00Justice Thomas Todd House-Frankfort<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9ykg2yaNwq9QXM-K8FpGEZ_YlLZoc3KTgVQgPPzDCQHjfF43joC7UGdTX6HfZ3Nwj-9g-3An7NVLEVJ7q7izfzvIGooKPe58L6-R1ythWgkzisWrnOPUJqhGhqRwuqSMzNZylCHMQNY/s640/blogger-image--1876910965.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9ykg2yaNwq9QXM-K8FpGEZ_YlLZoc3KTgVQgPPzDCQHjfF43joC7UGdTX6HfZ3Nwj-9g-3An7NVLEVJ7q7izfzvIGooKPe58L6-R1ythWgkzisWrnOPUJqhGhqRwuqSMzNZylCHMQNY/s640/blogger-image--1876910965.jpg"></a></div>The Thomas Todd House is located at 320 Wapping Street. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_style" title="Federal style" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Federal style</a> structure was built in 1812 by either Hayden Edwards or William Walker with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_architecture" title="Victorian architecture" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Victorian style</a>features added later.<p></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">After serving in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Continental Army</a> during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">American Revolutionary War</a>, Thomas Todd studied <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law" title="Law" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">law</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_surveying" title="Land surveying" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">land surveying</a> under his cousin <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Innes" title="Harry Innes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Harry Innes</a>. In 1784 Todd move to Kentucky when Judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Innes" title="Harry Innes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Harry Innes</a> was appointed to begin the federal court in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danville,_Kentucky" title="Danville, Kentucky" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Danville, Kentucky</a>. During his time in Danville, Todd served as a clerk for five <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_convention_(political_meeting)" title="Constitutional convention (political meeting)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Constitutional Conventions</a> regarding Kentucky's statehood. After being admitted to the bar in 1788, Todd was a clerk to federal Judge Innes and served as the clerk of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_House_of_Representatives" title="Kentucky House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Kentucky House of Representatives</a> until 1799 when the Kentucky Supreme Court was created and Todd was appointed its chief clerk. Kentucky Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Garrard" title="James Garrard" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">James Garrard</a> appointed Todd to fill the a newly added seat to the Court, and five years later he was named Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court. In 1807, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_President" title="United States President" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">United States President</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Thomas Jefferson</a> appointed Todd, then age forty-one, to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" title="United States Supreme Court" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">United States Supreme Court</a> where he served until his death in 1826. After his appointment to the Supreme Court, Todd remained active in local and state affairs.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">In 1818, while serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, Todd purchased the house on Wapping Street and lived there with his second wife Lucy (Payne) Washington, sister of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolley_Madison" title="Dolley Madison" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Dolley Madison</a>. Todd died on February 7, 1826 and was buried in the Innes family cemetery. Later Todd was reinterred in the at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfort_Cemetery" title="Frankfort Cemetery" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Frankfort Cemetery</a>.</p></span><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-89486550463236938412013-09-22T17:57:00.001-04:002013-09-22T17:57:48.540-04:00Flora Cliff Nature Preserve<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Floracliff Nature Sanctuary is a 287-acre nature preserve located in the palisades region of the Kentucky River in southern Fayette County. The preserve is comprised of steep slopes, mixed hardwood forests, Kentucky River bottomlands, swiftly running tributary streams and limestone palisades. Of geological significance is a 61-foot surface deposit of travertine known as Elk Lick Falls.</span><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcaZiwyuIupU5B5iK-5XMOFpWP1chG04wwrM7gcN4ZXlXDhmiix15NethrJ3lxL5QpiY7jwvnManyawMPfY2GuTEo4lrLq0EVsybH-IkdOQsvnM4nPKPdb__cawkzPqhrBbDU8ERADicc/s640/blogger-image-605100322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcaZiwyuIupU5B5iK-5XMOFpWP1chG04wwrM7gcN4ZXlXDhmiix15NethrJ3lxL5QpiY7jwvnManyawMPfY2GuTEo4lrLq0EVsybH-IkdOQsvnM4nPKPdb__cawkzPqhrBbDU8ERADicc/s640/blogger-image-605100322.jpg"></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-21692365264083836082013-09-22T17:26:00.001-04:002013-09-24T18:01:21.450-04:00Old Providence ChurchBuilt in 1790 on Howard's Creek in Clark County. Attended by Daniel Boone and church where several relatives were baptized. United Baptists formed here. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNqKLke4oWwS4tx6XNZ98ajI5_ImVSzbMB3HMMKpkg0puBPW4UyFZRewyicHPdx54qSWv4prYCAkpnWLcIrSzffZgNj1XNAaFvKRWujDh0lPMdNcXFK4T7aMXUqGI8Mr9O_3sVvZNeUlI/s640/blogger-image--1859632890.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNqKLke4oWwS4tx6XNZ98ajI5_ImVSzbMB3HMMKpkg0puBPW4UyFZRewyicHPdx54qSWv4prYCAkpnWLcIrSzffZgNj1XNAaFvKRWujDh0lPMdNcXFK4T7aMXUqGI8Mr9O_3sVvZNeUlI/s640/blogger-image--1859632890.jpg"></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">From an 1890's Postcard:</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida San Unicode', 'Arial Unicode MS', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><h1 class="guide_heading" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; "> The 'Old Stone Meeting House' on Howards Lower Creek, Clark County, Ky., is said to be the oldest church that is now in existence between the Alleghany and the Rocky Mountains. </h1><h1 class="guide_heading" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; "><br></h1><h1 class="guide_heading" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; ">Built before the year 1796 by a colony of Baptists who came from Virginia. </h1></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-21831676818751957312013-09-22T17:21:00.001-04:002013-09-22T17:23:46.115-04:00Colbyville TavernBuilt in 1820. by Colby Taylor. Popular stage stop between Lexington and Winchester. Andrew Jackson stayed here in 1835.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZXK4OUIHkBTA6fxNClj7DW3AUMQg_3M0E6QI404RAC_YqgenXmwPOGc1YIhMbaI8kJk6OGtPMTczn88128eigg42Pw_MigeZXL7tpxQUnaXimvXTjQ5I1QbIPOYRmflSGXefSUHLEeA8/s640/blogger-image--213531715.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZXK4OUIHkBTA6fxNClj7DW3AUMQg_3M0E6QI404RAC_YqgenXmwPOGc1YIhMbaI8kJk6OGtPMTczn88128eigg42Pw_MigeZXL7tpxQUnaXimvXTjQ5I1QbIPOYRmflSGXefSUHLEeA8/s640/blogger-image--213531715.jpg"></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-4673058203069808762013-09-11T16:55:00.001-04:002013-09-11T16:55:32.169-04:00Keene Springs Hotel<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihazlDYWnp0srFqSDsThuUiOWXPh4cfsgqxz3yNOjqqlWL7dJVFgDDxsD2NbJBgvdkRua78EQ905SWrPdzeGum5bnNWFRxe61LcQNzC4NATkhKMLqE5fLuMvn9_qauhocihxsitn58k2g/s640/blogger-image--371188258.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihazlDYWnp0srFqSDsThuUiOWXPh4cfsgqxz3yNOjqqlWL7dJVFgDDxsD2NbJBgvdkRua78EQ905SWrPdzeGum5bnNWFRxe61LcQNzC4NATkhKMLqE5fLuMvn9_qauhocihxsitn58k2g/s640/blogger-image--371188258.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">Keene Springs Hotel</b> is a rambling wood-frame, two-story <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Revival" title="Greek Revival" class="mw-redirect" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">Greek Revival</a>-style building built in sections in 1841 by Mason Singleton, Jr. in the hamlet of Keene, near<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholasville,_Kentucky" title="Nicholasville, Kentucky" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">Nicholasville</a>, <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">Kentucky</a> in <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamine_County,_Kentucky" title="Jessamine County, Kentucky" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">Jessamine County</a>. They owned and operated the hotel and tavern as a resort destination for the white<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur" title="Sulphur" class="mw-redirect" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">sulphur</a> springs nearby. During the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">cholera</a><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic" title="Epidemic" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">epidemic</a> of 1848-1849 and outbreaks in the early 1850s, residents of <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">Lexington</a> came to the hotel to try to escape the spread of disease. The Singletons operated the hotel until 1857, when they sold it to Alfred McTyre.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">American Civil War</a>, tourist travel decreased because of the poor economy. F.S. Wilson purchased the hotel in 1868 and operated it as a boarding house through the end of the century. In the 20th century until the 1960s, Wilson family descendants used the structure as a general store and residence.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8pt; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The hotel is privately owned. A lessee operates a restaurant three days a week and is gradually restoring the building. It was listed on the <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; ">National Register of Historic Places</a> on July 5, 1984.</span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">https://www.facebook.com/steve.manning74?ref=tn_tnmn</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14938180547199447378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-220955782467728690.post-82486244935683411942013-09-08T16:10:00.001-04:002013-09-08T16:10:09.394-04:00Caveland built in 1797<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}" style="font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; word-break: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; "><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; "><div><span class="userContent"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipja8LrFxyri6l5bfUUaPozxgO27x5qmwblskg6LY8FFY5bgf69fOPFag4S07_cxY3Ak0Hrbmz6miAh0TsWeNBQr5A-JH8dOTiW3bIYbWlxHmDrB2NoERI8Mw2wmnJS6l9rvayr6lqJcA/s640/blogger-image-467155107.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipja8LrFxyri6l5bfUUaPozxgO27x5qmwblskg6LY8FFY5bgf69fOPFag4S07_cxY3Ak0Hrbmz6miAh0TsWeNBQr5A-JH8dOTiW3bIYbWlxHmDrB2NoERI8Mw2wmnJS6l9rvayr6lqJcA/s640/blogger-image-467155107.jpg"></a></div>Caveland built in 1797 by Richard Hickman and located off Athens-Boonesboro Road in Clark County. Member 1792 Constitutional Convention, State Senator and Lt. 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