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Goebel-—TaylorandColson-—-Scott--Affairs.

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oaua an other slip goes with the preceding whole number.

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The subjects or titles are as follows: Some Fine Old People-~3

Hailroads.Stage Coaches &c—--First Use of Gas. Contrasts between
Customs old and new---Crimes in old times %Now---Three or 4

noted Tragedies---Tolson--Scott,hecember 1899---Goebel--Taylor,Jan
1900---Thompson--Davies,Fall of 1873--—Little Phil Thompson kills
Uavis---and with same number, Stewart --Kimball Tragedy, and

Baldwin ~~green killing. Number 9,assassination of Judge Elliot,
Number 9 Sympathy_of Judge Morton for Fallen Women--—Number IO
Thanges in Churches and Church Services. Chan

 

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to 126; only one number is given to subjects covering more thanon
sheet; the subjects or titles are as follows;

divil Var Period (3 sheets) Federals % Confederates (2)=4121
Newspaper Enterprise 4 I22.-——Lottery for Library # I23.
Water Supply at different tises # 124. '

Northern Bank & Wm. Christie 4125. Xanthexanank x fimx xhxix
George 0. Barnes Divine Healer and advent of Charles Kerr # 126.

 

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Autobiographical # II2--4 sheets

Lexington as Place of Residenceo---one sheet flII3

What donst itutes Prosperity ? 114---part of page missing.

bible Writers not only Inspired. #115 one sheet.

Damon & Pythias--Greenway & Cochran one sheet # 116.

Banks & Bankers---Prominent Citizens one sheet #117

Ornate Oratory--School Speeches abandoned. one sheet #118.
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 Fifty Years Recollections of Lexinaton & Vicinnitya
Its People & Institutions.

Preliningry.
T218 good town had its beginning on the banks of the Elknor

River in the year 1779 four years after the first shot was fired in
the War of the Revolution near its namewsake and elder sester in th
at Concord Bridge and
state of hessachusetts~~the shot+fired by the embattled farmers+ an
which "sounded around the worldnr. The stream was appropriately
named Elkhorn, for the species of deer indicated by the name roamed

in great numbers thru the majestic forests near-by with only the In-

dians to contest their supremacy, The strongest imagination cannot

so visualize the country thereabouts——the towering trees,the rolling

pastures7~the great limpid streams-—all filled with many beautiful

birds & fishes & animals wild and fleet~footed but not ferocious—~as
to exaggerate the reality..There are and Were other places where on
account of mountains & waterfalls & .‘z T , I, the elenent of nran
deur enters in were largely, but as a Legion appealing to

1

imagination for it: beautv‘ and to the practici ninacc 1
to enjey life and acquire a QCimCtCHCV9 there are ”on now and none
superior to it in that early day.

Our nncesto.s, the pioneer” of this rexicn,?ere high—linded
intelligent, rescurcovul couragoofis~—ai' & willing to contend with
the forests and Indians,encouraged by the splendid prospects that

lay beyond when their victory was accomplished.

The book of which Lr.George W. Ranch 1: the author is the on
real history of Lexington so far as I an informed; the term Recolee
tions designates more correctly than History what I am endeaveringe
to Write it imparts a more intimate tone, and permits the intermin—
gling of incidents anc events that are not strictln iistorical but

rather reminiscent. hr. Ranck’s book went to press in 1872 and con-

tains very interesting accounts of the ind striev institutions nrowt

 

 'age two)

1 page two
~ '*“**“Hna nevelopment and partial relapse.

identified.with TAB“ during tfiL
hope to make these papers or book if they
cheerful reading than would be a mere recital of facts in chrono—
logical order. In order to justify and give a distinct meaning to
the word Fifty in thetitle the aim will.be to record the best remem—
bered and meet prominent events betweenytne_fifty yearn fnnIBSO to
1910, bat‘the clearest and fullest recollection will be of the 32
years from 1873 to 1905 during the whole of which period I w e
resident of Lexington or its immediate vicinnity engaged continuous
in the practise of law in its courts and also in buying selling &
renting and examining titlee to real estate.
‘ The lst word in the caption 133 a ve pro hyt very comp
rehensive eignificance which well suite the aim of “hope reminie~
cent chronicles; they are intnCed to embrace people and thi
events of {peat reriety of vhfireoter and importaice. One of the FBTW
ly corresie men e of the Cinoinne i Whorirer wrote in one of hir
letters that tiCTO were only three_£n:titgtien: in Leyinwtcn a vie-
:tor neemee to oee-—Clay'e JOHUMGH1,,CLiCCM C. JoinxCh enc the Couri
Houeerlie, res at that time interesting on account of its age,
style of architecture, form Cz conetrueture. and wteeple which lean
ed like the Tower of Pisa. ? night have need "half a century"in teat;
of "rift? years" but net vonld teen to Le eterin; to sound and
bombastr In order to give an antique flavor and furni h a back—groutigJ
l
yer evente tranopiring since 1860, I new refer to a few occurrnces
preceding that date; but to prevent these rhetchee from ereuminp too

ruck of the tone of ancient Lietory, one to have them heintain as

they are intended to do 5 medieval flevcr they may project forward

enerhaé into the"modern pyriod eubeequent to 1310.

 

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*‘sssmi,w :nree
”‘n' T1850 Recollections will net tr confined to Lexin ten, rut

will include some important persons and events of tWo er tthree sur-
rounding ccuntien; n effort till be male to relieve their dullness
by interspereing 'one pen pictures or-persone of prominence er heviny
characteristics that attract attention, .o‘ r' * anecdotes illustra-
tive of these chipacteristic . ‘i‘l‘ey t‘ill .r ' , 1» inc (Li‘ pct-pou
ri, but till 1 link contain rcue very paletahle ingredients, pleasan
of any rho are kind eneuph to partake. A little inn way
some very goodxriende rho proving weary of the cares, con
and calamities constantly bese tins rojourners here ~-§ave

crc.sed over and ta

ken up their abode in other realms. hxpectina whorl~

iv to surrender the strutsle here (willywhilly) as I am now past 80
and exchange our uncertain climate for another entirely unknown and
perhaps worse than this—41f I choulc reach the place to which my good
friends have emigrated. and if their manes should feel offended at
What I may have Written in jest, we might be able to even up scores
'over there. I am quite certainthey have not procured return tickets &
will not b able to reach me so as totven up matters on this side.
While I admit a feeling of resentment against one Or two who have cr0m

seed the great divide, and one or two who have not no reference what
ever will be made to them, and in all that is written there shall be
no spark of malice against any human being living or dead.-

Time casts a glamour over the Past,Distance lends anchantment,

)

we who are in the sore & yellow leaf find a melancholyxpleasure
viewing in retrospect the rcenes of long ago. The present veneration
nay find enjoyment in comparing and contras.ting the pregnant Present
with 4the empty and fading Past; they may also if they strongly desire
and will make the effort using some imagination ree with prophetic evq
many wonderful things now hidden from view in thesealed book of futum
rity; like travel & advenlure in countries little known, mental incurpv

sions into the realmw of the future will disclose many novel and in—

 

 égv‘ €3§§2€1gg things both good & bad and give a zest and freshness to
Q relieve the dull drabness of every—day life.

As a stimulus for undertaking these mental incursions and
supplying data for illustrations and concrete examples from which to
make comparisons and contrastsof the past with the present, my aim
will be in the pages that follow to give an outline picture of an are>f
having Lexington for a center and varying radii of from ten to thirty

miles, during a period of about thirty years without definite limits;
but approximately from I860 to IQIO, with 1870 as a middle period; I
will not go back to very early days and write a strictly historical

story as Duncan Cassidy is now publishing by installments in a daily

neWspaper, nor will I attempt a feature sketvh drawn with the aid of

imagination from general information concerning certain cities in ear“
ly times (including Lexington )such as have been appearing from the
pen of JOseph Hergesheimer in the Saturday Evening Post.

My outline picture will be drawn mostly from actual experi~
ence and observaion, verified where necessary by reference to old.dir'
toriee, newspaper articles and the recollections of old persons; whil‘

we who are approaching the horizon Separating the known from the un—
Kmown indulge mostly in ryries & Cream as we recall the pecple,occur»
rences rnd experiences of that period, the young and middle—aged may
antivipate With assurance—~almost with certainty—— progressive chan—
res alone many lines of thought and endeavor. Rd achievement: as won
Cerful perhaps Luring the next fifty years aw have occu red ourinp
a similar period of the part. People now in the prime of life occu-
r? a vantage point of cpportuniy as fine av have “he perple rf any oti,;
1oriod of time; for have they not theheneiit of the experience of :11
the part and vnligited opportunities for tie future? hut tifi retrospeffi“
I am proprsing 10 yrs ent in print ,heuld be in some Kay ihtprfifitimfi

and profitable to both old and young.

 

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[870 _ h

' .. "ear+is a le'.onvemient date a ;,.."..J- ’ tnhe both

hick are at Li » Ternard View; we Vlil not specify in detail,betWee'
the T870 and the 1800 period . for I an discussing only those bétWOO'
t;e former and the present time, but will simply say that re who her

one in 1870 and ten yearv previously thought it was a time of great
events and that the progress since 1800 was hardly short of marvelcu'
and We thowzfiit of the Lioneers l-“J'i'th pity such an that with which 121a.—
ny born since 1870 commisserate u', but meh of their sympathy and
hit? is waisted,for we had many comertn & conveniences that George
Washington and his contemporaries had never even dreamed of. The In—
diand-had all disappered, life and property were much safer than in
this boasted day of law& order & proniitlou; there were close around
Lex. good turnpike roads,nimhly produntive soil yielding without ferw
tilizer abundant crepe of everthing adapted to the climate, splendid
forest: from which could be obtained all the timber needed ior fuel &
much suited for lumber besid s being a sportsman's paradise for smali*
game; thre Vere reapers for cutting our grain,tho not yet for bindiny
it, mills for grinding it with hor e ,water and steam power, thresh‘

rs which at first piled the grain and chaff out together on great

sheets to be separated by hand—turned fans and a little lter steam—

prOpellod separators turning out as much as 500 bushels a day ready

for grinding into flour. There were also in those days horses that

could run or trot almost as fast as Longfellow or Lexington or syson~

by or nan O'War,or Black Gold or zev or Bubbling Over or Whiskery;&

Durham ca tle imported from England grazing on lushy blue grass noon

to become juicy steaks or sold at fancy prices. We commiserated cit—
izens of those far back days also enjoyed the privileges of churchet
where we could listen to sermons by able preachers once a week whicék
was abundantly sufficient when it is remembered they were usually
of an hours duration, and one room school houses with nearly all

men techers thoroly quiified for teahing the three R's besides his«'

 

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him ,fl pfiory,geography algebra and a little Latin. In these one—room school”i
there was acquired abundant information the taught not more than 6
months a year to make citizens well fiitted for all the ordinary
duties of life, and for those having the needed tastes and talent
to lay the foundations for becoming teachers,preachers,lwyers,doc~
tors,judges,senators~—and even for Presidents 0f the U.S.
In addition to all these advantages there Werealso sple
did.steamboats plying the Ohio and the Mississippi,from'Cinnati
to New Orleans. and smaller ones on the smaller streams,carrying
both passengers and freight at prices much lover than at the pres“
ent day——and as a means of rescing these boats there were railroaf.3
extending from Lex. to both Louisville & Cincinnati on each of whi"5
two trains a day ran having two coaches a baggage car and the eu—
test little locomotives one might wissxto see. Tie true howeverit
was said that sometimes when a man was in a hurry he would start
ahead of the train and hop on when overtaken by it, or perhaps ijnoi
gang further than Frankfort or Paris would mount one of his blooded
horses- Practice telegraphy had.then been in use for 25 yeas or mor£j
radio had not entered the brain of the wildest visionary, there had
been some crude efforts at construction of machines that would fly
and occasionally a ventureous fellow connected with a show would
grasp a horizontal bar beneath a alloon inflated with hot air and
sail out thru the boundless he’x‘iTens taking the risk a; alight with
a parachute wherever chance might permit.; besides listening to the

tiresome rermons of an hour'R length we were entertained if not ins

structed by the oratory offbm grahall,Joe Blackburn and the twm

reckinridgen——worthy successorg to the eloduent Pat Henry,henifee
and Henry Clay.The people of that day had a right to be proud of
their opportunities and achievements, and my guess is that they

Were as comfortable, prosperous and happy as are the average citi-

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It may however have been a case Where ignorance Was bliss

and.each one can decide for himself whether it is folly to be wise
But I .
f+am Quite sure that if deprived noe of the comforts & conveniene

ces and devices contributory to the ease and enjoyment of life~~whi¢it
have come to us since 1870 the majority of the peeple would in theii»
mind at least be wretched and miserable; they of 1870 did not know
had not even dreamed of the wonderful things that had been thought
out nd were in store for the oonvnionce and enjoyment of those who
'night survive until 1920 or beyond—~heoretr shortly to be revealed
to a witing world.3f. Coincident however Vith the conveniences and
advantages that generated in the minds of the people of 1870 Feel—
injs of contentment and relf—sufficioncy and of superiority over
the denizen of 1800,there exinted conditionh causing d'esatisfac—
tion & discontent. Of these conditions the people pf I920 and sub—
sequently are entitled to be informed so that they may be able to
make comparisons and drew just conclusionv.

Rene of these unsatisfactory cnditione will be recited'
here;——Maih treet along its whole length of one mile Was constr-
ucted of rock broken the size of a man's fist and spread looselv
like the cheapest of rock roede without even send or gravel sprenfit
over and rolled gown to fill spaces and prevent shifting and jos-

tling by travel; parts of it were very rough and parts worn inte

hOlGS; there were sidewalks for less than half its length laid of

.. 1 fed“ .
richfibecame lOOce and unevn and when stepped upon squirted dirty

Water onto face & clothing and it was not unusual for women’s
'skirts worn leg in those days to become thorolv bdrggled. There
were gas lights on 8 or ten snares in thecenter of town at the
top of iron posts 7 or 8 feet high thru which pipes extnded con-

Veing thogas which was made of coal at works on Main rtreet at
fiprihg st.; they Were lighted on a moon schedulejthat is extin—

‘guished as noon a? half disk moon wefiwell tie the horizon.

 

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page eight
It was a current remerk thet when the gas Wag lit itvaecon—
sidered safer to carry a lantern to avoid Contact with the pests,
the truth of which statement and alro of tie one that 2 person in
a hurry to get to Cin. or Louisville weuld start walking ahead of
the train need vrification. A few years later coal oil lenpv rere
set on posts along the outlying lee'liiiee which required omen orir
Vina full—tilt in a two wheel cert en hour to light and e eimiler
lennth of time to extinguish. as they like the flee—lights were op—
reted on a moon eeheduleflnd only kept lit when the moon was nofiee
much on half full(no jole) no not above the horizon.
one of the disagreeable feaivree of etreet life-during Lex-
ington': middle perio d was the live—etock sales on Cheapeide on
COUNtY Court days and which were discontinued only 8 or ten yeere
ago; on these days it tan a mingled mere of humanity end animelity—
meh,hor»ee,eettle,rheep,eho rim ——nuetioneere eryine the bid, MON

on feet dodging hvek 3 forth apex ‘We heifihinfi,hnvli is blrntihua

u; ,

aquealing animals, and for eeverel dare ottervarde a 'oone Offfnfilm
ve to eyes and noetrile, It was only aftr ereat efforts by the bu—
siness hen and city dwellers against the opposition of the farmere
that theme stock sales were abolished and removed to y roe on the
o tnkirt' of town. Another one of the unsightly features was the
Livery mtablee of which there More more than a score,and beeideébeiaxg
uneifihtly they were a menace to other property on account of the co;r1

bustile material con“ained,and to life heca se the street

was frequentl" u ed for troininq anfi speeding horse”; tflifi wan eerO?

cially true of the part of Short wt between Lime & Preadway,and of‘=

the part of Kain fronting the big Treacy and ”ilson stables: on thek

,:

latter Hr. armetron: an old—tine miller Was run down and Killed by’

a epeediug horse and on the part of Short rt. indicatd the writerefi-
once saw the long projectin“ shaft? of a break cart driven foroi—4
bly into the base of the neck of a horse drawing a wagon & he saw? my
its heart blood spurt in a .tream an the ehaft‘ were withdrawn &*J?”'

 

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”(page dine) 1. . . ,
Saloons Were always more or le‘s 1n1m1cal to order,health

and morals and Were rendered more so in Lexington and other towns by
lax enforcement of the laWs pertaining to them; these laWs were stri»
ct enough, they forbade Keepin5 open after eleven at night or on Run»
dayday or selling to a minor; they imposed penalties on th e saloon -
keeper for furnishing liquor to knoWn inebriates or to persons al—
ready under its effect 3 or to any one after notice fron a member of
his family not to do so.?ut many saloonmkeepers disr regarded theve l
law~ and the city authorities were lax in their enforcement: hence
Prohibition With its mixed evils and benefits.l have not the remote::
intention of discussing the prohibition subject but will ask just
one question :~~lf after trying Prelib ition for ten years reven of
the nine provinces of Canada have gone back to government control,&
if under that system crime is only about one fourth as prevalent as
in the United States does it not tend to show that Prohibition is a
failure here? During the middle period of Lexington the regulations
required the consent of the governing body to the issual of a lice.
nse for the retail of alcoholic liquors at any certainplace , and
before the license Was granted the consent in writing of at least

one half of the occupanty of the square was required.

With the requirements named above for procuring license to

retail spiritous vinous and malt liquors it might be inferred that
saloons would have been kept strictly within boundaries no t inju—
rious or objectionable to other more respec able lines of business
but the facts are there are only three squares in the Whole city
Where M,h y were not at some time or another located, the

three along rain trect fre:i Line:t0he t Woadway, and a:
+7 , ,

the Veernlaoo there were a': many €1.o£erWedred in Operation at th
same time. There were yer" I'ow restriction' 0; location of Livry
Stable and they alpeared onlgolidly b .ilt lmu iness treets and
stables in the immediate vicinnitr of re pect able dWOllilҤS. As
tanv as tWenty of then were in operation as late or a little later
- an 1910.

 

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1782 adopted en act en~

titled " An act entitled to establish a town at the Court House in
the county of iayetteas follone; WAereas 640 acres haneof unappr‘
priated land in Fayette county whereon the Court House now stand?
have been by the wettlers thereon laid out into lots and streets
for a town and said settlers have purchased 70 acres contiguous
thereto——bcing part of survey made for John Floyd, and Whereas it
would tend greatly to improvement and settling of same if title
of the nettlers on the lots were confirmed and a town establishein
thereon; therefore said 710 acres is vested in fee simple in tho
followin' seven men as Trustees, viz:—-John Todd,Robert Patter
on, ”ma nitchell, Andrew steel,“m. Henderson,”1.1cCownvld,and
Wm.steel~-Gentlemen, and established as a EOWn by the name of Lexe
ington. said Trustees are empowered to make conveyances to those _
already settled on said lots and to such persons as have contracsxfil
to buy other loss, provided the lots that have been set apart for
public buildings shall remain for that purpose , and said Trustee:
are given power to settle ilhcontroversies abowt the boundaries
of the lots also to choose other: to fill any vacancier that mty
occur on account ofi death or removal from the county-or other dis
abilities."
By an act of 1789 it is further provided and ordered ‘
that inasmuch as the lot provided for public use is larger than neegllwp
ed, thzt a certain portion of it(de:cribed particularly) shall be
sold by the trustees at auction after due advertisement for erection
thereonga house for divine worship,end that they shall make e deed
to the denomination or Christians that may buy it, and that the nonog

sogealized shall be lSFd towards building e-harket Hones. A further

ac passed in 1790 directs an election to be held by the freeholders,
‘housekeopers and free male inhabitants of Fayette county who have re-
sided one mile fron the Court House for six months and are 21 years
of age and hve movable property of the vine of EEpounds. All SUCL are
authorized and directed to hold an el ection within a period named,
and to choose seven trustees to succeed these then holding the place‘)
but from the above description of those qualified to vote are excepteli
free nosroes and mulattoes. said Acts may be conveniently consulted in“
Littcll's Lats vol.z,pagcr 549 a following an found in Transylvania
library.
‘hore have been numeroné amendments by the Legislature to
the charter of Lexinnton since 1800: the fullest and most complete ong
was peeved December Gist 1850 0&1 be reen anroference to Vol.2 of thk
Acts of that yea ,page 80 e on, this one delimits the physical boun— ‘
Caries to one mile in every direction from the Court House, spfciflnh
all the o ficerm from two mayor down . how elected or chosen their
terms of office powers and duties io much in dctril as to make italo
most a doing concern from the first Without the adoption of any ore
dinancos. Later an ordinance was adepted creating four wards formed
by the OTOSSiNK 0f Main and Broadway sts.then the dividing line betwl.
een the East & West was fixed at Upper st,and still later at Limestonsl
(then called Mulberry) which is still retained as the dividing line;
he dividing line between the north and south portions is still Main
street as at the first. Main and the parallel sts.run amost exactly
south—-East and North——West, Broadway and the parallel std run north
East and south-—West.——these courses adopted probably to conform to
the course of Elkhorn Creek Known as the town branch.

 

 (Names o_f_‘ ,prgngipai 3trdgts3-sto‘r-y buildings;
The cfiiEf‘East'and west streets tégifining at the South side of town

were High st. then called Hill. Vine.Water.hain. Short and third
the East end of which was then called Winchester st.; the chief n
north &south sts. were Limestone then called Mulberry.Upper, Mill
Broadway,Spring,Patterson, (then called Lower )and Merinosts.
There were improvements all along Vine.Water,Main &SHort sts.from
about the line of the cemetery gate Eastward to about the line of
Rose st.;Limestone or Mulberry was improved from Bolivar st. now
Euclid, to Fourth, upper &Mill from abouy the same relative point
on the south to Third or Winchester st.; the north & South limits
of improvements on Broadway were from Third to Bolivar at the poin

where the railroad now crosses and the freight depot is located ;

Spring.Patterson (or Lower ) and Merino had a cheap class of build-

ings to their southern limits about in line with Maxwell extended.
The central portion of the circular area embracing the
whole city was well occupied with business and residence houses
many of them substantially built of brick, but except as indicated
above and except suburban places there were no improvements further
than half a mile from the court-house, and none further east than
Rose st. Before 1870 railroads had been completed to Louisville vIA
of Frankfort & Eminence and to Covington via Parisr%0ynthiana--
called the Kentucky Central,which extended South to Nicholasville
and which extension became about 1880 a part of the din. Southern
The structures along main fromMm Merino to Cemetery gate and along
the railroad‘m Town Branch were mostly of a cheap class--including
distilleries slaughter —houses and woolen mills; the only two good

dwellings recalled are the Bosworth and Ater residences.
The growth of a city may be forced in any certain directi

on by establishing a cemetery on the Opposite side ; for this rea-
son the growth of Lexington has been almost entirely East & south
construction in the central business portion was substantial but

plain--most of the buildings being one or two stories; only 3 or 4

 

 are remembered which were as much as three stories high, two of

these remain---the Carty building at s.w. cor. Main &Mill and the

Norton building s.w. cor. Main & Upper, both extending back to Wate
st: and which were erected between 1860 and 1870; also th e Odd Ffe
lows hall at s.e. cor. Main & Broadway in which was the first opera
house,altho there.was a theatre building at Spring & Vine; the
building at broadway & Main has been entirely remodeled and rebuilt
and for a great many years occupied by C.F.Brower &Co. as a furni-
ture store. the two other 3-story buildings were the Patterson
flirniture factory north side of Main between Spring & Patterson
and one on north side Mill &Cheapside occupying a part of the lot

on which the City National Bank now stands. Both these were old as

early as 1870 and have been long since demolished.

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There were during that middle period around 1870 a number of
commodious and stately mansions outside the closely built busines
sections with ample and sometimes ornamental grounds and every
needed outbuilding ---horse &cow stables.hen houseslmeat or smoke
houses. dairies.ice houses. and servants houses known as Negro
houses or quarters. These establishments were owned by persons of
wealth and high social standing; their location and owhership are
given below as nearly as practical in the order in which they might
be reached most conveniently on a tour of inspection.

First; A tract of one hundred acres or so just outside

the old city limits on the narrodsburg pike slightly more than
one mile from the Court -house; entrance was thru an iron gate span
ned by a lodge building of unique construction to be occupied by a
keeper; the residence was of unfamiliar type of architecture and'
on account of thick growth of large trees barely visible from the
highway and is now showin g signs of decay. An Englishman named

Bruin who operated the only iron foundry Lex. ever had built iteb

 

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’ befbr6”thezfiivil War. This place passed in succession to his sonin-

law, Boone Ingles also an Englishman. to J. Watts Kearney. to W. B.
Kinkead.and to Hart Gibson. and is now being converted into a sub-
urban addition to be called Duncan Park or Ingleside.

Second: A mile flirther out at the Junction of the Clays
Mill pike was a tract of 200 acres or more on which was a big build
ing of some 16 or I8 rooms that came to be known as "Levy's Folly"
because Mr.L. had sacrificed a fine mercantile business and become
bankrupt in building this caravansary for which he had no use abd

to which he never moved.0n the part nearest town was a fine grove

of oak. ash,walnut and hickoryon which rederal soldiers encamped

near the close of the war and did much damage. This place was a par
of a tract of several thousand acres owned at the geginning of the
century by john Campbell a Scotchman and inherited by his sister
Sarah Campbell Beard,and which extended from the Nicholasville to
the narrodsburg pike. It was acquired before the War by Henry W.Ree
who with his two sons-in-law. simpson & stockwell conducted on the
south side of Main st.between Mill & broadway a hide fur and leathe
businessb between I870 &1880; the place was converted some I2 or
15 years ago into a Pythian Home.

ThirdzThe Richard Higgins place had a frontage of probabl
150 or 200 feet on High st.at Lex. avenue ex tending to Maxwell .
near which was the dwelling; the entrance at High thru a farm gate
gave it the appearance of a country place; Lex.avenue was taken of
its western side and a number of lots since imoroved off the East

Fourth: some 200 or 300 feet east on high st.was the
stately dwelling known in recent years as the Robert Stone and
Kinkead place on the elevated part of which and far back was and is
yet the imposing dwelling--containing ten to 12 acres. It was laid
out 8 or ten years ago by a landscape gardiner into excellent build

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most of which have been improved with sitely buildings and is calll

Lyndhurst.

Eifth:East of Lyndhurst and separated by Rose St is the

joseph Woolfolk place which contained acres and was bought by him

from:; g §:?¥, {ff/)7: the residence was near Maxwell but fronts
Wigh. wasflmostly one story but attractive style .and has now gone
almost to decay; the front view was pleasing .two streets were laid

out at right angles--called Arlington and Grosvenor.fifteen to 20
dwellings now occupy the area.

sixth: the S.E.corner of Rose & Maxwell sts.was the Ju-
dge W.C.Goodloe farm of 40 to 50 acres‘mis called Aylesford ;sever-
al streets extended thru it and a great number of nice buildings
erected; the orincipal north tsouth streets are named ninden Walk,
Aylesford Place, and Transylvania Park. The old Good