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Beck’s Mill is a historic gristmill in Washington County, Indiana, near the city of Salem. The mill was originally built in 1808, and rebuilt in 1864. For a brief time during the Civil War it was threatened with destruction, along with the other mills in Washington County, by John Hunt Morgan, the commanding general of a group of confederate soldiers known as Morgan’s Raiders, that passed through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio between June 11 to July 26, 1863.
The historic Yates cabin, built in the 1840’s. The cabin was moved to higher ground at its present location in the early 1980’s, in advance of the filling of Taylorsville Lake. The lake is located southeast of Louisville, Kentucky, the state’s largest city.
Early spring at the historic Locust Grove estate outside of Louisville, Kentucky.
Locust Grove was an 18th century farm founded by William Croghan and his wife Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790. Lucy Clark was the sister of George Rogers Clark a military officer and explorer who played an important part in the early history of Kentucky and Louisville. She is also the sister of William Clark, the famous explorer from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to America’s Pacific Northwest. The farm is notable as the place George Rogers Clark spent his final years, and for being adjacent to the property where Zachery Taylor, America’s 12th president grew up.