Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1783/00/00 | Col Thomas Marshall (Patriot) | Home | Thomas Marshall chooses the Buck Pond tract and builds his surveying office on the site. | |||
1785/00/00 | Mary Randolph Keith Marshall | Home | A two story, timber frame, center passage house is built between 1783 and 1785 for Thomas Marshall, his wife, Mary Randolph Keith and six of their fifteen children. Justice John Marshall never resided at Buck Pond. | |||
1792/00/00 | Col Thomas Marshall (Patriot) | Owner | By 1792, Thomas Marshall owns 32 Black slaves, 15 horses and 62 cattle. He owns more slaves than most men of the county, and ranks high in amount of acreage. Buck Pond encompasses 1525 acres. | |||
1800/00/00 | Dr Louis Marshall | Home | Thomas Marshall resides at Buck Pond until c 1800, when he gives the estate to his youngest son, Louis Marshall, and wife Agatha Smith Marshall. | |||
1810/00/00 | Dr Louis Marshall | Work | For thirty years Louis Marshall runs a private school at Buck Pond. Notable Kentuckians tutored by Marshall include Rev Dr Robert J Breckenridge, George B Crittenden, Gen Basil W Duke, Charles, Abraham, and Basil Buford. | |||
1815/00/00 | George B Crittenden | Education | George Crittenden attends Dr Louis Marshall's school for boys in Versailles, Kentucky. | |||
1815/00/00 | Robert Jefferson Breckinridge I | Education | Robert Breckinridge receives a classical education at Dr Louis Marshall's school for boys in Versailles, Kentucky. | |||
1818/07/01 | Agatha Marshall Logan | Born | Agatha Smith Marshall, wife of Dr Louis Marshall, gives birth to a daughter, Agatha Madison Marshall, in Buck Pond, Versailles, Kentucky. | |||
1925/00/00 | Thomas Clay McDowell | Home | Thomas Clay McDowell buys Bucks Farm and begins breeding horse. |
Particulars for Buck Pond: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Architectural Style | Early republic |
Other Description | Early Republic Vernacular |
Area of Significance | Education |
Area of Significance | Exploration-settlement |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Criteria | Person |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | School |
Historic Use | Secondary structure |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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