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While this tour includes widely spaced areas in Mercer ly owned by long time County, many of the Harrodsburg sites are most enjoyable Mercer Circuit Court Clerk 15 Lucy Newton on foot. You will be following a city plat laid out in 1786 Ben C. Allin, and later by Cogar House: which divided a one square mile area into 200 in-lots and T. C. Bell, prominent (304 East Lexington Street) 83 out-lots. Each city block was comprised of four one half Mercer County attorney. Built circa 1878 as the acre in-lots, and the downtown area was bordered on all Contains a Matthew P. home of Jesse and Lucy four sides by out-lots of 5 to 6 acres. off Beaumont Avenue, known Flemish bond, features Newton Cogar. This house (362 Lowery mantel. as the Harrodsburg Cemetery, 6 Courtview: 8 Cardwellton: Matthew P. Lowery interior is a fine example of Golden on property given by the North Main Street) (103 East Broadway) woodwork. Lowery woodwork Age architecture with 2 Magoffin family. The old Occupying out-lot 5, Located on in-lot 86, this also framed the exterior front cherry and oak inlaid floors, Pulliam/Curry(414 13 Isaac Hipple(354 East stone vault was built in 1869 Courtview is so named for house of timberframe con- doorway and has been intricate moldings, stained North MainHouse: Street) This LexingtonHou Street)se: Built by by J. O’Toole and served as a its view of the courthouse struction with brick nogging covered in modern times. glass windows and pargeting. circa 1857 house was built Isaac Hipple circa 1845, temporary tomb during severe when this Federal brick resi- has a log nucleus which may by Monroe Pulliam and the façade is divided into weather. A walk through this dence was built in 1823 by be as early as 1786. Home completed by Col. Richard M. Sutfield to the Chenoweth, Slavens five bays by brick pilasters 16 legislator Daniel Curry cemetery is a walk through Hugh McGary(123 South 1 and his first wife, Elizabeth and Cardwell families, it was topped with Doric capitals. the history of Harrodsburg East Street)Hou sThise: house was and his wife, Martha Jane Thomas. Contains Matthew purchased circa 1863 by The windows have slightly and Mercer County. owned by Hugh and Katie Forsythe. The Gothic P. Lowery woodwork with John and Sophia Taylor pedimented wooden lintels 1 Diamond Point: * Yocum McGary in 1795 but (488 Price Avenue) Revival style is shown unique mantel pieces for Cardwell and remains in that have an acanthus leaf construction methods indi- Diamond Point is one of by the board and batten every room. that family. Contains wood- motif. Later owned by cate an earlier building date. Kentucky’s finest examples siding and lacy bargeboards. work by Matthew P. Lowery. the Garnett and of Greek Revival architec- Thompson families. The house is of timberframe ture with its textbook 7 Benjamin 11 construction with brick nog- Minard Lafever doorway. 3 John L. Bridges ging. Much original wood- Passmore(111 House 9 Hogue/Williams(224 East An unusual portico features House/(North Burford end of and Hotel: House: (129 14 Thompson/ work remains. McGary was two round columns flanked West Broadway) The hotel Factory Street) Wattle, daub 11 Woodsland:North East Street) a pioneer in Mercer County GreenvilleHill: Street) This (344 EastWickliffe Lexington Hou Street)se: by two square piers and a was built circa 1843 and and hewn log house built in All materials for this and a Major at the Battle of circa 1817 house was Built in 1887 after his narrow balcony accessed by the house built circa 1853 the early 1800s by Samuel Virginia style house came Blue Licks. He married first built for John L. Bridges original home burned, this three upstairs doors orna- 4 by Benjamin Passmore, Hogue containing much from the immediate proper- the widow Mary Buntin Ray and his wife, Anna Adair Italianate residence was the ments the façade on the sec- Harrodsburg blacksmith and of its original woodwork ty with the hand fired brick who was the mother of Bridges, the daughter of home of renowned criminal ond level. entrepreneur. The house is a and cabinetry. Purchased on the front wall laid in General James Ray. McGary Governor . lawyer Philip B. and Martha 5 Tewmey/ hall and parlor plan. During as a residence in 1856 Flemish bond. It was built in was an extensive landowner Bridges was a Mercer Montgomery Thompson. Armstrong(367 North the era of stage coach travel, by John Augustus 1810 by Archibald and and businessman in Mercer County Representative Graced by exquisitely Main House:Street) This circa the hotel provided popular Williams, President of Annie Adams Woods and County and Harrodsburg. to the State Legislature crafted cherry woodwork. 1850 house was built by accommodations. It also Daughters’ College. still remains in the family. Among his properties was a and a circuit judge. served as a residential hotel Note Celtic cross on tower. Contains Matthew P. John A. Tewmey, a descen- tavern on Main Street. dant of the Low Dutch. for young married couples. Lowery woodwork. The former hotel has 10 Charles Ficklin/ Entablature above the door 12 Muscoe(506 Garnett East is carved with a honeysuckle housed the offices and Alexander House: 17 Maria Thompson presses of the Harrodsburg Buchanan House: Lexington Street) Built by 4 Spring Hill motif. In the Armstrong (North East Street) Built Harrodsburg tailor Muscoe (122 EastDaviess Poplar Street)House: family for almost 100 Herald since 1951. circa 1830 by Charles (GreenvilleCemetery: Street) Spring* F. Garnett and wife, This house has been the years, it was the home Ficklin and sold in 1833 to Hill Cemetery was established Margaret E. Hunt Garnett, residence of two Mercer of artist Jestabell Alexander Buchanan, this in 1860. Prior to this the in 1852. This substantial County literary figures. It Armstrong Matherly. five bay, story and a half 12 community used a cemetery brick home was subsequent- was built in the mid 1800s 3 house with a façade laid in 1765 Harrods W&D brochure 9/18/06 12:58 PM Page 2

Queen Anne building with that Smith provided a of Terah Templin Haggin, Romanesque details built in wooden model of a church McBride’s brother-in-law 1887 by the Isenbergs serves in England he had visited as and father of James Ben Ali as a commercial building. a boy; also, the only truly Haggin. Contains Matthew An upper floor theater is centered window is the one P. Lowery woodwork. notable for decorative paint- back of the altar, as Smith ing on walls and ceiling. caused by the Civil War pre- taught: “Only Providence is cipitated a split in the con- 21 Harrodsburg perfect, and man should 29 Dr. A. D.(115 Price West gregation. The Confederate Baptist Church: ever be mindful of such.” Poplar Street)House: Brick (312 South Main Street) faction continued to use this 19 Court HouseA 1786 Italianate residence built in This historic congregation building until both factions plat of HarrodsburgSquare: * desig- 1884 by Dr. Anselm Daniel was organized in 1839 by reunited in 1913. nates a public square on Dr. William Vaughn and 27 Lawyer’s(Short Street) Row: and Caroline S. Henry 17 which four courthouses worshipped in the Old In 1810 the Trustees of Price. Dr. Price practiced by Maria Thompson Daviess have been located. A stone Republican Meeting House 23 The Academy: Harrodsburg sold certain lots medicine in Harrodsburg for the author of “The History courthouse was built in located behind this structure (South Main from the Public Square for 40 years. This house served of Mercer and Boyle 1788 followed by a brick and facing the Courthouse. Street) In 1847, under the 25 the sites of workshops and as his medical office and Counties”. Elizabeth structure and separate clerk’s The present building was supervision of Rev. John offices and Lawyer’s Row operating room. Notable for Pendleton Hardin, who office in 1818. A larger completed in 1961. Montgomery, the Presbyterian sympathizer, jailed for with the rattle of the wheels was born. This street was its Victorian gingerbread penned “The Private War of brick building replaced these Church hired James Curry to waving her handkerchief at and the echoes of the merry traditionally home to and parquet flooring. Lizzie Hardin”, spent the in 1912. It burned in 1927 construct the Harrodsburg John Hunt Morgan and his stage horn.” Contains lawyers’ offices due to its last years of her life here. and the present structure Female Academy on land men as they rode through Matthew P. Lowery proximity to the Courthouse. Long time home of the J. Eli was built in 1928. purchased from Christopher Harrodsburg. The ladies of woodwork. Along with Brown family. Columbus Graham. Housed the town emptied their other commercial enterprises, Civil War wounded from the larders to prepare a grand it currently houses the 28 William (CorMcBridener of Battle of Perryville. feast for Morgan and his Harrodsburg Historical West PoplarHous ande: Chiles) 18 Blue Front(200 block men. A great celebration Society and Research Library. Built in 1822 by William of SouthBuilding: Main Street) This was held marking his visit as and Jane Haggin McBride chronicled in “The Private parents of Confederate War of Lizzie Hardin”. The 26 St. Philip’s General James Haggin 19 rear building served as the (NE CorEpinerscopal of Chiles Church: and McBride. Once the home 22 county jail from the 1870s Short Streets) The church until 1983. building cornerstone was 23 20 Harrodsburg laid in 1860, and the build- 29 (305 SouthChri Mainstian Str Church:eet) 22 United ing opened for services in Located on in-lot 152, this Presbyterian(326 South 25 Morgan(220-232 SouthRow: 1861 at the outbreak of the 24 Old Mercer (320 30 United was the site of Rev. Jesse Main Street)Church: Built in 1853 County Jail: Chiles Street) “Built by Civil War. This gem of Head’s cabinetry shop and and expanded in 1913, this South Chiles Street) Built Squire Joseph Morgan and Gothic Revival architecture Methodist later the offices of the Gothic Revival building in 1827, the large building extended by John G. Chiles was designed by the Right Church(120-128 and Bohon Buggy Factory. houses a congregation which served as a home for the for whom the street was Rev. Benjamin Bosworth SouthParsonage: Chiles Street) The 1928 church houses originally worshipped at jailer and his family and as named, who had stage Smith, first Episcopal Reconstructed in 1940 on an historic Disciples of Cane Run. They moved to jail cells for the prisoners. contracts extending largely Bishop of Kentucky. the foundations of the 1840 Christ congregation Harrodsburg and built on this Most famous inmate was over Kentucky that kept Concerning the design and 1889 Methodist Church Lizzie Hardin, a Confederate 18 chartered in 1803. site in 1818. Differences Harrodsburg wide awake source, legend maintains 26 after a devastating fire. Has 1765 Harrods W&D brochure 9/18/06 12:58 PM Page 3

original bell from the first Jr. and his equally successful Built of Kentucky limestone, church. The congregation siblings, including James it is now associated with 42 Honeysuckle has been meeting here since Wiley Magoffin who found- neighboring Beaumont Inn. Hill/Fair Oaks: 1828. The circa 1840 Greek ed El Paso, Texas. Another (712 Beaumont Avenue) Revival house is the oldest brother, Samuel Magoffin, Designed and built by Dr. continually inhabited helped open the Santa Fe Guilford Runyon in the Methodist parsonage west of Trail. His wife, Susan Hart this Queen Anne style early 1840s for his fiancé Victorian house is notable Kitty Ferrel who died of the Alleghenies. Church Shelby, granddaughter of 34 Tabler(504 Beaumont House: 39 Aspen Hall/ Dr. and parsonage housed the , was the first for the pargeting gable deco- James Shannon cholera. Runyon was an Avenue) This Queen Anne ration. Mrs. Dedman chose (558 Aspen orphan reared by the wounded following the Civil Anglo-American woman to style house built in the 1880s Hall Drive)House: Built on land War Battle of Perryville. travel west on the Trail. The the lot, plans and oversaw Shakers at Pleasant Hill by Dr. Moshiem Tabler was construction. Long time res- originally part of Greenville until he was expelled after Georgian style portico was subsequently used as a par- Springs, this imposing 41 added to the house in 1845. idence of the Ruby family. announcing his intention to (104 sonage for the Harrodsburg Greek Revival house was marry. Noted for its Minard 31 WhiteSouth Chiles Hall: Street) Notable for its handsome Presbyterian Church before built in 1840 by Dr. James Matthew P. Lowery doorway Lafever style ornamentation. Situated on in-lot 37, por- reverting to private owner- 38 G. A. Curry Shannon, President of tions of house built as early as and woodwork. ship in the 1940s. House: (538 Bacon College. Later the 41 Beaumont(638 Beaumont Inn: Inn * 1840 by Robert and Priscilla Beaumont Avenue) Built in residence of John Bryan Drive) Constructed in 1845, Robertson. Purchased in 1891 36 1896 by G. A. and Zeletta Bowman, Mercer County 33 this building served for over by Thomas and Mary Grimes Magoffin/ Graveson Curry, this Queen farmer and crusader for seven decades as one of the Hardin. Remained in Hardin Mills/Gaither(464 Anne style house stayed in higher education in South’s leading female col- 36 VanArsdall/Sale(520 family until 1959. Is presently BeaumontHou se:Avenue) Built by the Curry Family for two Kentucky. leges, known in order as the BeaumontHouse: Avenue) This owned and occupied by a Beriah Magoffin, Sr., Beriah decades. It retains its original Greenville Female Institute Beaux Arts style home was financial institution. Magoffin, Jr. and his wife wrap around porch and beau- after the old Greenville built in 1905 for G. Alfred Anne Shelby, granddaughter tiful leaded and stained glass Springs that occupied the Curry. In 1919, it was 42 of Isaac Shelby, first gover- windows. Under the owner- same property; Daughters’ 35 purchased by Dr. Condit nor of Kentucky, resided here ship of Frank and Louise College; and finally, B. VanArsdall, Sr. whose after 1839. Later owned by Forsythe Curry, this house was Beaumont College. Since daughter Elizabeth married 43 Benjamin Mills noted gun- 35 the scene of traditional south- 1917, it has been owned and Forest “Aggie” Sale. Mr. Mercer County smith and commander of Poteet House: ern living with balls, teas, and operated by five generations (512 Beaumont Avenue) Sale was a Captain of the Fair(Linden and HorseAvenue) Harper’s Ferry at the time of candlelight dinners. It later of the Dedman family as a Located on out-lot 81, this 1933 University of became a funeral home as RecognizedShow: as the oldest John Brown’s famous raid. Queen Anne style house country inn that is reminis- Kentucky basketball 40 continuous Fair and Horse Purchased by M. R. Gaither Bruner and Sims, then cent of the Old South and was built by Benjamin team and two-time All- Show in the , in 1870, the family held title McClellan, before reverting which has attained an inter- 32 Franklin Poteet in 1883. America. The home dating from 1828, the pres- to the property for over a to a private residence. national reputation. Three The home was designed continues ownership in (618 ent location was purchased century. Construction 40 Greystone: auxiliary buildings – Goddard by nationally recognized the same family. Beaumont Inn in 1904 having been the site (433 methods indicate a pre-1830 Hall, Bell Cottage, and architect George Barber Drive) Greystone was built of an African American 32 ClayBeaumont Hill: Avenue) building date. Unusual Greystone – also house and is listed as design # 29 in 1931 by Mrs. A. G. Kyle, Fair. The property was once Built circa 1814 by Beriah tamped clay insulation is Beaumont guests, and the in “The Cottage Souvenir 37 a niece of Eli Lilly of phar- a part of the Harrodsburg Magoffin, Sr. and his wife, between basement and first Dedman(528 Beaumont House: property contains several No. 2” design book. maceutical fame. Hugh Springs. As Mercer County Jane McAfee, on out-lot 40. floor living quarters. Avenue) Built in 1884 by ancient trees of varied species. Meriweather, noted for his moved out of the settlement It was the birthplace of Charles M. and Mary commercial and residential period and the threat of Kentucky’s Civil War (Mollie) Curry Dedman, 39 designs, was the architect. Indian depredations dimin- Governor Beriah Magoffin, ished, agricultural advance- 1765 Harrods W&D brochure 9/18/06 12:58 PM Page 4

ment and livestock breeding contains Matthew P. Lowery became a major focus. The woodwork. Haggin was a 52 Dr. James 54 William McAfees Fair flourished with the judge for the Kentucky New Harrison Moore Station/ Round exhibition of fine blood- Court of Appeals during a House: (367 North Ridge: (1060 Industry stock exhibited by the likes tumultuous and volatile College Street) This hall Road) Part of a 1773 survey, of Henry Clay and the period of Kentucky politics and parlor home was built the station was built by Shakers. The Mercer that almost brought the replica was erected in 1927 brick. Building cornice has circa 1848 as a town house William and Rebecca Curry County Fair was not only state to civil war. The house on Old Fort Hill also known 47 West Side brick corbelling. Organized by Dr. James Harrison and McAfee in 1779. He was witness to the creation of was originally located on as Seminary Hill. President School: by white Baptists of South Mary Messinger Moore. with Franklin D. Roosevelt visited (Intersection of Lexington District during 1840s as Important in the early and the group who marched the American Saddlebred, over 400 acres of farm land Street and Magnolia) This but after the horse was no with its lawn sweeping the Fort in 1934 to dedicate African Baptist Church. economic development of on Chillicothe and Piqua in the granite monument African American School Small brick building served this community, Dr. Moore 1781. McAfee was badly longer the primary means of down to what is now was erected in 1930 with a transportation, venues such College Street. James commemorating the first as house of worship and a and his wife had extensive wounded by the Indians and permanent settlement west donation from the Julius school. One of first pastors landholdings and banking was taken to Floyd’s Station as this were responsible for Haggin was the son of the 50 of the Allegheny Mountains. Rosenwald Fund and became changed name to First interests in Mercer County (near Louisville) where he the preservation and old pioneer, John Haggin, the only elementary and advancement of the breed. founder of the Kentucky Also on the park grounds Baptist Church. A new and Mississippi. held onto life until his wife are the Pioneer Cemetery, a high school for African church by that name organ- (338 North arrived at his side, dying Haggin family of note in the Americans in Mercer 50 Rykon: thoroughbred industry. relocated log cabin (now ized in 1897. Present sanctu- College Street) Built soon after. William housed inside the Lincoln County. It is located near the ary built in 1873; annexes circa 1844 by partners Daniel 53 Bataan War McAfee’s Station is the 44 Judge James site where Sally Ann Taylor, Marriage Temple), and the added 1915 & 1983. Stagg and James Curry. Mr. (VeteransMemorial: Park Road * – off probable site of Fort Liberty. (Park Avenue)Haggin This House: Federal African American educator, Matheny-Taylor House Curry purchased Stagg’s and beside U.S. Highway The land and station site home was built by James 45 F(Collegeort Harrod: Street, US* conducted schools in her (Mansion Museum). interest. Called Rykon for 127 North, immediately later became the property of Haggin in 1810 for his bride 127, and Lexington Street, home after the Civil War. 49 The Maples: the Riker family who pur- north of Warwick Road) Joseph Morgan who built Henrietta Humphries. The US 68) Begun in 1774 by The three principals who (328 North College chased it in 1861 and held Sixty-six men from Mercer Round Ridge in 1817 for his third owner of the home James Harrod and Company, served the school were Mrs. Street) This Gothic Revival 46 St. Peter title for a century. The Riker County left San Francisco bride, Ann Bryan. was Thomas Patrick Moore, the Fort was crucial to the Maynette Elliott Sneed house was built adjacent to African family were descendants of 27 October 1941 under Ambassador to Columbia settlement of Harrodsburg (1930-38), Miss Clara B. his tanyard by Frederick Methodist the Low Dutch. sealed orders with the under President Andrew and Kentucky. Situated on (NE Clelland (1938-59), and Mr. Curry and Cornelia, his Episcopal Church: 192nd G.H.Q. Tank 55 FontaineBleau/ Jackson. This architecturally the Wilderness Road, its Corner of Lexington Street, Robert Jackson, Jr. (1959- wife, in 1856. Curry was a Battalion and arrived in (HighwayHite’s 390 1.6 Station: miles west superior home is Flemish importance as a refuge in US 68, and College Street, 61). Closed 1961 when descendant of a pioneer 51 F(350ore Norst Pillars:th College Manila, Philippine Islands, off US 127) Site of the bond on all four sides and times of Indian depredations US 127) This congregation Mercer schools desegregated. Mercer County family who cannot be underestimated. It was formed circa 1839. In came to the area with the Street) Enlarged by Madison 20 November 1941. They famous boiling blue spring, was the site of many firsts: 1885 they founded Wayman McAfees. An original brick and Mary Worthington using fought to defend Bataan and this cabin/station was located Institute to provide higher smokehouse is still part of timberframe construction, Corregidor during a critical on land occupied by Isaac George Rogers Clark planned 48 First Baptist(349 West his northwest territory strate- education for African Church: the property. Prior to the portions of this house were battle of World War II. Hite but later assigned to American youth. The Broadway) This rectangular construction of this house, built as early as 1820 by These brave men endured Peter Casey. Here James gy in one of the original brick structure has its princi- blockhouses; Mrs. William present Classical Revival in-lot 128 was owned by Mary May. The house’s name the battle, “The Bataan Harrod’s surveyors, John building was erected in 1917 pal three-bay façade in the African American entrepre- is derived from the solid Death March”, and more Cowan and James Hamilton, Coomes taught the first gable end. Front façade school in Kentucky within with much of the labor being neurs Dennis and Diademia poplar tree trunks forming than three years as prisoners were killed by Indians in 1774 provided by church members. consists of two equally- Doram whose portraits by the four Doric columns. of war before returning to while tending their corn crop. the Fort; Ann McGinty spaced doorways separated brought the first spinning Patrick Henry Davenport Son of Edward Worthington, Kentucky. Twenty-nine lost This caused Harrod and by a window. The doors and are housed in the Kentucky both served as early Trustees their lives. The tank is a Company to leave Kentucky wheel and made the first a stained glass transom are linen from the lint of nettles History Center. of Harrodsburg. Madison World War II M-4. and join the Virginia troops enclosed in a Gothic arc also served on the Board of fighting Lord Dunmore’s War. 44 within the Fort. 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during times of Indian Denton, widow of John 56 James McAfee attack. Before the end of the Denton who had been killed Cemetery: eighteenth century, the by Indians. Among the first (West .8 mile on Kentucky stone house, modeled after women to settle in Highway 1160 off US 127 the family home in County Kentucky were the Dentons, then right .65 mile on Man Armagh, Ireland, was built McGarys, Hogans, and O’War Drive) Pioneer northeast of the station. his will. He died in 1828. contains many original Boones. This is the family cemetery of James McAfee Young Joseph McCoun was outbuildings. An early log 62 Ambrose Burton 64 David Williams’ for whom Denton, Texas and his wife Agnes “Nancy” captured by Indians near house has been moved and (560 Unity (North on Pike) InHouse: 1797 Revolutionary WarwickStation: 3.5 miles from its was named. Clark McAfee. He was the 58 James McCoun’s here and later killed. reconstructed from its near- head of the McAfee by location on the Salt War veteran Ambrose intersection with 127 By- (493 GarriottStation/Millwood: Lane) James Company of 1773 and was River. All are situated on Burton constructed this two Pass) David Williams and Margaret Walker story 18 by 24 feet single pen achieved distinction in the 67 William W. the founder of McAfee 60 the George McAfee settle- 65 McCoun located their sta- Nathaniel Goddard Station for whom this area Burrus House: ment and preemption. log house. Burton’s construc- , fight- tion on land which was part (955 Vanarsdall Road) tion of the east limestone ing under George (388 CurryHouse/Wildwood: Pike) This was named. The cemetery A veteran of the and Robert B. McAfee indi- includes many unmarked of the 1773 surveys made by chimney on the inside rather Washington and General cate a first McGary’s Station handsome Italianate villa the McAfee Company of Revolutionary War than the outside is unusual LaFayette. He survived with its three story tower graves. One of the first buri- where he participated in 61 New Providence was within sight of Fort als here may have been that which he was a member. Presbyterian for this area. An early addi- Valley Forge and was an Harrod. He was a justice in was built by William W. and Not a strongly fortified sta- the 1781 siege of Yorktown, (East side tion on the west side of the original member of the Sarah Eliza Goddard circa of Isaac Clunendike who Burrus and his wife Mary of US Church:127, 7 miles north Kentucky’s first court, was was killed in an Indian tion, the McCouns lived at house was built of mortise Society of Cincinnati. promoted from Captain, to 1870. W. W. Goddard’s life James McAfee’s Station dur- Threlkeld, built this transi- of Harrodsburg) This and tenon beams filled with He was with the party who and deeds are recorded in attack while with Samuel tional Federal brick home 1862-64 house of worship Major, then Colonel in the McAfee a quarter of a mile ing times of danger. James wattle and daub. Burton’s first surveyed the site of Kentucky Militia, and was a “Uncle Will of Wildwood”. McCoun helped to organize circa 1830. The kitchen is is a Greek Revival building initials are incised in the east Harrodsburg 16 June 1774, Goddard was a tobacco from McAfee Station on of hand hewn walnut logs. serving one of the oldest trustee of the town of 9 May 1781. and was one of the first eld- fireplace surround. and later established his Warwick. grower, cattle breeder, horse- ers of New Providence Burrus amassed a fortune Presbyterian congregations station on the waters of man, and fervent supporter Presbyterian Church. with his extensive farming in Kentucky. Begun in 1784 Shawnee Run. of the southern cause during Portions of McCoun’s home, operations and produce by the Rev. David Rice, first 63 Walnut Hall/ 66 Thomas Denton’s the Civil War. He named Millwood, were built in trading conducted on Presbyterian minister in the David W. (986 one of his children Rebel to nearby Kentucky River. state, the historic religious Curry Pike)Station: Established by 1790. The house is orna- (664 MundaysThompson Landing) House: 65 Hugh McGary’s(North on commemorate the conflict. mented with Matthew P. This 1830 house is listed body erected this fourth Station: Thomas and Sarah Denton The family lived in a log on the National Register of church building on a promi- David W. and Sara M. Warwick 2.6 miles from its as early as 1776 on the 57 Lowery woodwork. structure located to the rear Historic Places and the site nent crest site along the Old Thompson built this five bay intersection with 127 By- waters of Shawnee Run. Greek Revival house circa Pass) Hugh McGary brought of this house prior to the Wilderness Trail. The Civil The land belonged to Diana building of their home. War greatly slowed its con- 1840 on the northwest corner his wife Mary Buntin Ray 57 59 JohnMeaux’s(592 James McAfee(West 1.2 struction, and the steeple of his grandfather’s, David McGary and family to GarriottStation: Lane) Leaving a life miles onStation: Kentucky Highway (non-characteristic of the Williams, original preemp- Kentucky in 1775 with of ease in New Kent County, 1160 off US 127) James building’s historic style) is a tion. The west and north Daniel Boone. McGary Virginia, the widowed John McAfee chose this site for somewhat recent addition. facades are laid in Flemish and his stepson, James Ray, Meaux settled this station in his settlement in 1773 while The initial church was bond, and a two story pedi- established this station 1784. It became the seat of surveying with the McAfee named “New Providence” in mented portico supported by around 1779 on McGary’s his vast landholdings and Company. This stockaded gratitude for certain provi- four Ionic columns graces the 400 acre settlement at farming operation. Meaux station was built by James dential interventions in the central entrance. The massive Shawnee Springs. McGary may have been an early and Agnes “Nancy” Clark early settlers’ behalf. See limestone foundation and purportedly led the charge abolitionist, making provi- McAfee and used as a refuge 61 historical highway markers. basement alone took almost that began the ill-fated sions for freeing his slaves in by settlers in the region a year to build. Battle of Blue Licks. Draper 67 1765 Harrods W&D brochure 9/18/06 12:58 PM Page 6

Kentucky County Land Court to coming to Kentucky in in 1779. He died within three 1779. Lewis and Barbara years of coming to Kentucky Fair Rose located their at the Battle of Blue Licks station on 400 acres and was a Lieutenant Colonel assigned to them by in the Militia at the time of Stephen Trigg. Rose was his death. captured at the Battle of Blue Licks where his brother Matthias was killed. While a 75 68 Jacob Froman’s(532 prisoner after the battle, he Bailey Pike)Station: Built by Jacob was required to run the and Barbara Mercer Froman gauntlet several times on 68 Abraham Chapline 69 Matthias on his settlement and the march to Detroit. He Plantation/Rufus Yocum’s Station: preemption, a log house was ransomed there and Henry Vandarsdall (East on US 68 – Lexington presumed to be part of the returned to Kentucky a year (1561 Lexington Road – 3 miles from 127 By- station still exists inside later. During that time, his Road)House: Abraham Chapline Pass on right) The Yocum 71 the present residence. wife, assuming him dead, at 19 was the youngest family lived on the edge of Froman was a member of probated his will and inven- of the original settlers to the frontier in Virginia, commonly called “Shakers” within this structure. Post Gordon was killed at the the Convention of 1792 toried and sold his property. accompany James Harrod to North Carolina, and finally 71 Shaker Village of because of their ritualistic molds indicate that it may Battle of Blue Licks, and his which drew up the first He became a ruling elder in Kentucky. This is the site of Mercer County, Kentucky. religious dances. Since 1961, have been a stockaded fort. land was inherited by his Constitution of Kentucky, the Cane Run Church. (Off U.S.Pleasant 68 at junction Hill: *of his 1400 acre settlement Matthias Yocum established the village has been owned Captain McMurtry survived son Ambrose Gordon. and was elected a state KY 33, 7 miles northeast of and preemption. He married the station on his excellent and operated by a nonprofit the Battle of Blue Licks but The site for Shawnee Run representative in that year. Elizabeth Higgins in 1793, and well watered settlement Harrodsburg) The restored corporation committed to was captured, required to run Baptist Church, organized 78 Alexander and their restored pioneer and preemption. His daugh- community of nineteenth preserving and interpreting the gauntlet several times, in 1788 under Reverend Robertson’s century buildings surround- cemetery is located near ters married into the Ray the Shaker experience in and ransomed at Detroit. John Rice, was deeded from 76 (IntersectionStation: of Highway ed by rolling bluegrass farm- George Corn’s here. Another pioneer and McGary families. Son Kentucky. The entire He made his way back to this property. This was the 33 and 152) In 1778, land features structures of (960 ShakerStation:town Rd.) settler Azariah Davis was Jesse Yocum survived the acreage is also listed in the Kentucky only to be killed by parent church to many area Alexander Robertson and stone, brick and frame con- Established by George Corn buried here as well. The Battle of Blue Licks. National Register of Indians at Harmar’s Defeat in congregations. his wife Margaret Robinson structed between 1809 and on a branch of Cane Run present house, an exquisitely Historic Places and is desig- 1790. He is noted for build- established their stockaded 1859. Notable are the 1820 around 1780. The Corn detailed late Victorian man- (2408 nated a National Historic ing the first water powered station near here. Robertson 70 Meeting House with its Family proved invaluable sion, was built circa 1900 by Fairview:Lexington Road) Landmark District. grist mill in Kentucky. 74 Stephen Trigg’s was the first Sheriff of interlocking cantilever-type (1305 in guarding theirs and other Rufus Henry Vanarsdall of Located on the land of Station: Mercer County and father trusses; the 1839 Trustees’ Handy Road) Trigg’s Station early Mercer County Low Dutch descent. , Governor of famous Justice George Office with its twin spiral (settled by Stephen and Mary stations. George and Edward of Kentucky 1816 – 1820, 72 John 73 John Gordon’s Robertson. Their daughter staircases; and the massive (1490 Christian Trigg) was also Corn were survivors of the the present Carpenter’s McMurtry’s Station: Charlotte married Robert Center Family Dwelling (4170 Shakertown Road – Haggin’s Station, Gordon’s Battle of Blue Licks. Gothic house was the home Station: P. Letcher who became (1824-34). The Shaker Lexington Road) John Kentucky Highway 33) Old Station and Viney of Robert E. Coleman who, and Elizabeth McCoun This is the site of John and Grove. Trigg had risen to . along with Crit Davis, were Village of Pleasant Hill was the third largest community McMurtry established this Elizabeth Grayson Gordon’s prominence in Virginia as a 77 Lewis Rose’s among the first to develop station around 1780, and the second station, with the first member of the House of Station: Mercer’s reputation for prize- established by the United (West Main St., Burgin) Society of Believers in log house presumed to be station becoming the prop- Burgesses and was appointed Lewis Rose was born in winning trotters and pacers. part of the station still exists erty of Stephen Trigg. John Commissioner of the William Jennings Bryan was Christ’s Second Appearing, Germany and served in the 69 entertained here in the 1890s. Pennsylvania Militia prior 1765 Harrods W&D brochure 9/18/06 12:58 PM Page 7

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HARRODSBURG Welcome to historic Harrodsburg KENTUCKY andHarrodsburg Mercer was named County. for Captain James Harrod (1742-92), a native of Pennsylvania who learned of Kentucky – then part of Virginia – through Daniel Boone. Leading a party of 32 men in 1774, he founded Fort Harrod, now Harrodsburg, on June 16 of Historic Harrodsburg that year. Importantly, Harrodsburg historically ranks as Kentucky’s Kentucky’s First Settlement – 1774 oldest town, as well as the first permanent English settlement west Harrodsburg/Mercer County of the Allegheny Mountains. Mercer County was named for Tourist Commission General Hugh Mercer (1725-77) who was killed in action while leading American forces in the Revolutionary War’s 1777 Battle of Princeton. General Mercer was never to lay eyes on the 488 Price Avenue place named in his honor. Harrodsburg, KY 40330 859-734-2364 or 800-355-9192 The historic homes and attractions of this locale play a tremendous role in the heritage of its peo- ple and serve as a lesson book in the changing modes of American architecture—from Kentucky’s pioneer days of the late 1700s, up to the Great Depression ofthe 1930s. Where possible we have mentioned the architects and craftsmen responsible for creating these wonderful homes such as Matthew P. Lowery, a Mercer County woodworker, who produced the intricate carvings which embellished the interiors and exteriors of fine Central Kentucky homes until his death in 1835. Research, text and photography by James Harrod Trust We have also included in this tour historically significant sites located throughout Mercer 638 Beaumont Inn Drive County. These encompass the majority of early stations located within our borders during the Harrodsburg, KY 40330 earliest period of Kentucky’s settlement. A station was considered a place of refuge for settlers and 859-734-3381 travelers during Indian raids. It could be an actual stockade or simply a fortified cabin where the This project is funded by Transportation Enhancement funds populace would remain during an attack. From these forts and stations came the volunteer militia administered by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and financed who protected the frontier and formed the backbone of the fighting force at the Battle of Blue by the Federal Highway Administration. Licks, the last battle of the American Revolution. Nearly every family in this area suffered the loss Equal Opportunity Employer. of a relative or close friend in the 1782 Battle. As one views the area designated, envision a land Additional assistance provided by the Kentucky Heritage Council, yet undeveloped with high cane breaks and forests. The log structures and stockades are long the State Historic Preservation Office. www.heritage.ky.gov gone, but the springs and fertile land that enticed us across the Appalachians still remain. Matching funds provided by Mercer County Fiscal Court, We are truly gratified by your interest in our historical and architectural City of Harrodsburg, and citizens of Mercer County. Again,treasures. Also, welcome. we request that you respect the matter of private ownership: unless otherwise indicated with an asterisk (*), the properties described herein are privately owned and are not accessible to the public.