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Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century.
It was named after early Lexington businessman Benjamin Gratz whose home stands on the corner of Mill and New streets at the edge of Gratz Park. The Gratz Park Historic District consists of 16 contributing buildings including the Hunt-Morgan House , the Bodley-Bullock House, the original Carnegie Library, which now houses the Carnegie Center ...
Map of Kentucky engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas (Geographicus Rare Antique Maps) Cheapside market in Lexington, Kentucky in the 1850s This is a list of slave traders active in the U.S. state of Kentucky from settlement until the end of the American Civil War in 1865.
In April 1998, the Tent Girl was positively identified by the Scott County Sheriff's Office as Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor. They were aided by the efforts of Todd Matthews, then 27, of Livingston, Tennessee. In the late 1980s, he married a daughter of Wilbur Riddle, who found the young woman.
The Jockey Bar now resides near the historic site in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Cheapside Park was a block in downtown Lexington, Kentucky , between Upper Street and Mill Street. Cheapside, originally Public Square, was the town's main marketplace in the nineteenth century and included a large slave market before the Civil War .
Orrin Todd House, Hamden, CT, listed on the NRHP in Connecticut; Todd House (Tabor, Iowa), listed on the NRHP in Iowa; Todd-Montgomery Houses, Danville, KY, listed on the NRHP in Kentucky; Robert Todd Summer Home, Frankfort, KY, listed on the NRHP in Kentucky; Mary Todd Lincoln House, Lexington, KY, listed on the NRHP in Kentucky
In 1832, Todd purchased a three-story, fourteen room, brick residence at 578 West Main Street in Lexington. The new Todd family home was built c. 1803 – c. 1806 as an inn and tavern and known as "The Sign of the Green Tree". [5] Today, the home has been preserved and is known as the Mary Todd Lincoln House. [5]
Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.