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New entries are added to the official Register on a weekly basis. [5] Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which only modify the area covered by an existing property or district, although carrying a separate National Register reference number.
Oldest surviving house in Johnson County; built 1843; Fryer House – Home of pioneer Walter Fryer; built 1811; Glen Willis – built 1815; Hausgen House – Colonial Revival style house; built c. 1890; Hawkins House – Has served as a ropewalk and a dormitory for the Georgetown Female Seminary. Became a residential home in 1858; built c. 1790
The house was built as a manor house for the surrounding farm, which was a 30-acre (120,000 m 2) truck farm by the early 20th century. The house was built in two sections, typical of a farmhouse of its age. The first was built in 1834 in the Federal style, facing northward towards the Ohio River. This reflected the early rural nature of the ...
[2] The exterior of the brick nogging (infill between the timbers) is plastered with stucco while the timbers are not; this is unusual as the only house in Kentucky known to have this feature. The 32 feet (9.8 m) by 28 feet (8.5 m) house also has a steep roof and just one window each for the two front rooms.
From 1846 to 1854 almost a third of the UK's ships were built in Sunderland, and in 1850 the Sunderland Herald proclaimed the town to be the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. [ 70 ] During the century the size of ships being built increased and technologies evolved: in 1852 the first iron ship was launched on Wearside, built by marine ...
Location of Scott County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Scott County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Scott County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
The Jacob Hunter House near New Liberty, Kentucky is a historic Federal vernacular-style house built in 1818. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] It was built by Revolutionary War veteran Jacob Hunter, whose grandson was Lafayette Hunter.