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By Mary Bridgman now a commercial shop and some The Wolf Pen Mill, on Wolf Pen Nicola Marschall, artist of con- at Shelbyville Road and English Station apartments. White is said to have Staff Writer Branch Road is Jefferson County's federacy, is commemorated in a marker Road, where, in 1789 Shawnee Indians made a plat of Middletown. The tavern, oldest surviving industrial building. on Shelbyville Road. Marschall drew up attacked the fort springhouse, built by If you're a history buff, this is your located at a stage coach stop, was Built between 1820 and 1830, it was the original patterns of the Stars and Richard Chenoweth, and five were supposedly visited by Lafayette, Clay year. powered by a 26 foot wooden wheel. Bars, the Confederate flag, and the massacred. End has had its fair share of and Breckinridge. The East Union uniforms. He died in Louisville, in Floyd's Station, marked at Breckin- history makers. Numerous historical Dumesnil House, 301 South Peterson, Motorists can stop and read about 1917, after painting portraits of ridge Lane at Hillsbaro Avenue, landmarks significant homes, mon- is a large post Civil War home, their local history as they ride down Jefferson Davis, Lincoln, and other commemorates the early fort, begun in uments and statues, and highway surrounded by open space and trees. It is state and local highways. presidents. 1779, one of three forts on the Beargrass markers remind us of historical on the National Register of Historic The Mansfield marker on Watterson The home of Dr. Rob Morris is noted Creek owned by Col. John Floyd, who happenings and past ways of life. Homes. Trail commemorates the home of Henry 1840-192- on on Ky. 53 in first County of End Monuments and statues The Field House, 2909 Field Avenue in Watterson, editor of the a marker located was the Lieutenant East 1780-83- , Courier-Journa- l. LaGrange. founded the County from when he cut, cast, and carved span almost 100 Crescent Hill, was once the home of the Watterson's home, Morris Order of Jefferson years. Many were given by local late Judge Emmet Field. The home was however, was recently gutted by fire. the Eastern Star and was named "Poet was killed by Indians. Laureate of Freemasonry" in 1884. residents tochurchesand organizations. built in the 1860s. The Abraham Lincoln sign, one mile A marker at McCready Avenue and 's home on What follows is a list of someof the scores Eastwood's Gilliland House, at east of East wood on US60 and 460, notes Trinity Road recognizes Spring Fort, Blankenbaker Lane, Locust Grove of significant sites nearby. Gilliland Lane at Floyd's Fork, is noted the grandfather of President Lincoln built sometime before 1782. It was one of is noted with a marker on US 42 and The life-siz- e statue of Daniel Boone, for its architectural worth. So too is was killed by Indians in May, 1786. The the original "Beargrass settlements," Blankenbaker. Clark, who founded cast by Enid Yandell, 1870-193- stands Eastwood's Green Hill Farm on Long Long Run Baptist Church marks the around the time of the founding of Louisville, at the Eastern Parkway entrance of Run Road, built in the 1850s. alleged site of the grave. constructed the original Louisville. Its commander was Richard outpost the Falls of the Ohio. His home . In 1893, the Louisville Happy Ridge Farm, 18701 U.S. 60, The Zachary Taylor sign on Blanken-bake- r at Steele, who was injured in an Indian has by Presi- Filson Club authorized the Daniel Boone was built in 1781 by John Hume, and was Lane, marks the home of the 12th reportedly been visited attack at Floyd's first fork. statue, to be made out of plaster, for the reputedly the original Hume Station. president of the United States, where he dents Monroe, Jackspn, Taylor. The Kentucky School for the Blind and Kentucky Building at the Chicago Lyndon Hall, at Shelbyville Road lived from 1785-180- Fort William is commemorated by a the American Printing House for the World's Fair. and Hurstbourne Lane, is noted for its A Cemetery marker on Maple Lane sign at Shelbyville Road and Whipps Mill Blind are noted on Frankfort Avenue. The Joseph AbeU House, 12210 Main architectural worth. It was built in 1818, commemorates the 313 Confederate Road. The fort was built in 1785 by The school was the third such Street in Middletown, was built in 1803 with a stone springhouse nearby. veterans who died while they were William Christian and his spouse Anne, a slate-supporte- school in the United by Abell as part of his 600-acr- e The log cabin Maloney House, was residents of the Kentucky Confederate sister of Patrick Henry. The Eight Mile States. plantation . It is now owned by Naom and first built in Middletown, then moved to home, and buried in the cemetery on the house is also on this property, which is The printing house is the largest of its Robert Grunden. 2204 Tucker Station Road. It is not grounds. one of the oldest stone houses in the kind in the world and is the oldest Ashbourne, built in 1808, was known when it was constructed. Another marker in Pewee Valley, at state, and may have been a tavern. non-prof- agency of its kind. originally the home of William Lyons The Jefferson Marders log home, built THE ZACHARY TAYLOR the old L&N depot, denotes the location Oxmoor, built by Alexander Scott The Zachary Taylor Cemetery is Brown, is located in Harrods Creek at in the early 1800s, sits on Pepper Way in monument stands in the Zach-ar- y or The Beeches, where "Little Colonel" Bullitt and his wife, is marked on noted by a marker in US 42. General River Road and Wolf Pen Branch Road. Middletown behind large trees. It is Taylor National Cemetery author Annie Fellows Johnston lived. Shelbyville Road. Bullitt helped draw up Taylor was a soldier' and twelfth Beechland, 8500 Six Mile Lane, was being renovated by Philip and Becky north of Brownsboro Road. In St. Matthews, on Shelbyville Road, the first state constitution in 1791, President of the United States. He was built in the 1820s and was originally the IePanto. a marker notes the home of Richard served as president of the 1799 buried there in 1950. home of Dr. William Bryan, a pioneer The John C. Marshall House, 11503 Clough Anderson, a Revolutionary War Constitution Convention, and was the In Anchorage, 12215 Lucas Lane, Farmington, attracts many visitorseach at doctor in Jefferson County. He also built Main Street, isone of the oldest homes in hero who fought with Layfayette. first state Lieutenant governor. the Isaac Hite's log house is marked. year. Located on Hards town Road near twoother historic homes nearby, at 8000 Middletown, built in 1784. It is now Twoof the biggest Civil War battles in Sturgis Station is marked on 1 lite came to Louisville in 1773 with the Watterson Expressway, it was built and 2806 Six Mile Lane for his two sons owned by Marian Fisher. Jefferson County are noted on a marker Shelbyville Road, east of the Watterson ('apt. Thomas Bullitt, and they were in 1810. It was the home of Joshua Speed William Frederick and John, in 1856. Nunnlea, sitting on a large open space on Shelbyville Road in Middletown. The overpass. Peter Sturgis was an early among first pioneers and was reportedly designed by Thomas the to survey the Bill Boland's Restaurant, at Bards-tow- n on Hurstbourne Lane near Taylorsville battles were fought Sept. 27 and 30, local pioneer who helped settle a local area. Jefferson. It is open to the public. Road and Hikes Lane, was the Road, was constructed in the 1810 by 1862, and preceded the Oct. 8 Battle of 2.000 acre tract which became one of the A highway marker denotes the home of the Hikes family. There are Peter Funk for his father. Peter was a Westover. 4319 Westport Road, was Perryville in Boyd County. five significant early stations on the establishment of Lyndon on LaGrange some old graves next to the home, which colonel in the U.S. Army and fought in first owned by the Arterburn family and David Wark Griffith, a nationally Middle Fork of Beargrass Creek. Road. It was named by pioneer Alvin was built in the 1840s. the Warof 1812. used as a farm house and outbuildings. known film maker, is commemorated In Eastwood, one of the bloodiest Wood in 1871. An Eastwood home, Candlewood, The O'Bannon House, 1812, on The family was well known locally, and with a highway marker on Ky.22, 146 in events in early Kentucky is noted in the Roscoe Goose is commemorated in the built in 1835 on US 60, was originally the Factory Lane.'depicts early stone farm they lived in the home from the time it Crestwood. Griffith, an Oldham County Long Run Massacre. A Miami Indian Jeffersontown town square. Goose rode home of Robert Hord. architecture. A second O'Bannon was built in 1820 until 1951 , when it was native was buried there in 1948 at the party killed more than 60 pioneers. Donerail, the 1913 Derby winner, which ' The Chenoweth Springhouse on House, at 1221 2 LaGrange Road, 1820, is sold to Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Deem. age of 73. The Chenoweth Massacre is marked paid the largest odds in Derby History. Avoca Road in Middletown was built by a brick farm house with original Richard Chenoweth in 1783. Chenoweth one of which may have Station is near ihe site of the Chenoweth been the first school house in Massacre of 1789. Jefferson County. Cave Hill Cemetery, on Baxter Ave., MIDDLETOWN GENERAL STORE Oxmoor, at Shelbyville Road and the contains many graves, including the Watterson Expressway, was the home 245-148- George Rogers Clark and the 11617 Main Street - 6 famous of Alexander Scott Bullitt. It was built in poet John Keats. Its entrance brotherof 1800. Bullitt helped draft the first state tower is a monument landmark in Shop in the relaxed atmosphere constitution in 1791 , was president of the o Calico Yard Goods Louisville. 1799 constitutional convention, and was 1803, a stage coach of Yesteryear, in an authentic In Cherry Springs, the first state lieutenant governor. o Colonial Pewter Ware stop, was built at Taylorsville Road and You II Hurstbourne Lane. Rock Dale, or Sweeny Place, stands at General Store. tind Jefferson-town- . o Valentine Conrad was the first owner 12201 Taylorsville Road in Aladdin Kerosene Lamps in 1790, was everything from Imported Coffees of a home built in 1797 at 7800 Six Mile Originally built it 'lJr built o Lane. Conrad is said to have made the enlarged from an early stone home and Teas to hardware. Cape Craftsman first pottery in the area. by Edward Tyler. The Davis Tavern, now known as the SelmaHall.orthe Henry Reed House, And don't forget to visit our KM Wooden Ware Weatherby House, at 1 1801 Main Street was constructed in the early 1800s on Avenue. in Middletown, was built as a tavern Riedling Drive off Zorn 9-- Old Fashioned Candy counter. MON. SAT. 6 New Shipment owned by Squire William White, but is The Speed House, better known as

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