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The David Back Log House and Farm, is a historic home and associated farm structures located near Blackey in Letcher County, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. [1] It has also been known as the Bates Log House and Barn. It is a double-pen log house. The first pen was built in 1875 by William Dixon. [3]
The Knight House is the oldest standing structure and residence in Hopkinsville and Christian County Kentucky. Squire Earick House: Louisville, Kentucky: 1815 Residence Oldest woodframe house in Louisville [6] Carneal House: Covington, Kentucky: 1815 Residence Oldest building in Covington Elijah Herndon House: California, Kentucky: 1818 Residence
Robert Chester Tway Sr. (October 21, 1881 – May 13, 1964), known as R. C. Tway, was a business, agricultural and political icon in the Louisville, Kentucky area. His activities provided a long-lasting footprint in Kentucky as his farm (named Plainview Farms) evolved into a large subdivision and business center located off Hurstbourne Lane, and his former Kentucky Trailer Company continues to ...
In 1850 the first glass bottle and jar-making firm, known as the Kentucky Glass Works was formed, which, by 1855, was being referred to under the name "Louisville Glass Works". ("Louisville KY Glass Works" is the actual wording on some of their embossed whiskey flasks of the 1850s and 1860s era).
Location of Trimble County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Trimble County, Kentucky.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Trimble County, Kentucky, United States.
The table below includes sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jefferson County, Kentucky except those in the following neighborhoods/districts of Louisville: Anchorage, Downtown, The Highlands, Old Louisville, Portland and the West End (including Algonquin, California, Chickasaw, Park Hill, Parkland, Russell and Shawnee).
Oxmoor was surveyed in 1774 and was the home of Sturgis Station fort by 1780, when it was granted to Col. William Christian. Alexander Scott Bullitt married Christian's daughter in 1786 and Christian gave the 2,000-acre (810 ha) farm to them as a wedding present.
The neighborhood's name apparently comes from the large number of (smoke-producing) kilns in the area during its early brick-making days. An 1823 newspaper advertises a brickyard in the area as part of the farm and residence of "the late Mark Lampton", after whom Lampton Street is probably named. 9 of 20 brickyards in the city had Smoketown addresses according to an 1871 Caron's directory, [2 ...