Constructed around 1839, the Carpenter-Smith House is located on Covered Bridge Road near Crestwood in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 1982. A photo of the house is included on page 16 of the April 2009 Brownsboro, Kentucky Area Master Plan.
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The Harrods Creek Baptist Church and Rev. William Kellar House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The church and house are located northwest of Crestwood, Kentucky, on Old Brownsboro Rd.
The Harrods Creek Church, built in c.1810, is a simple stone building. It faces north and has three windows on its east and west sides.
The Rev. William Kellar House, located .25 miles to the west, up an old road, was built in 1807. It is a three-bay, two-story stone house with a brick ell.
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Moore Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by University of Louisville. It is located on the Horner Wildlife Refuge in Oldham County, Kentucky approximately 20 kilometers northeast of Louisville. It opened in 1978, and was dedicated to Walter Lee Moore, a Professor of Mathematics at U of L from 1929 to 1967.
Moore Observatory is a research and advanced teaching facility of the University of Louisville. The observatory operates two research telescopes at the site, and a companion telescope at Mount Kent near Toowoomba, Australia. The observatory is located on the 200 acres Horner Wildlife Refuge. The Horner Family donated this land to the U of L in the early 1960s and another 1,000 acres of the original farm surrounds the preserve.
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Brownsboro is a rural unincorporated community in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States. It is located northwest of Crestwood on KY 329.
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The Wesley Methodist Church, located on Haunz Lane in Oldham County near the Jefferson County line in Kentucky, is a historic church which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
It was built in 1824 and, in its 1984 Kentucky historic resources site inventory, it was identified as the "only known unaltered early stone church" in Kentucky.
It is a one-room dry stone front-gable church, about 32 by 44 feet in plan, with three windows on each side.
It was built by Silas Bobbitt, age 20, and Bruce Jean, age 18.
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The Ohio Valley is a sub region in Kentucky running 658 miles long including parts of 25 counties and across five regions of the state. Over 45% of Kentucky's population live in counties that border the Ohio River, although those counties are only 16% of the state's land area.
The Ohio Valley in Kentucky can be broken up into several categories:
It is somewhat unusual for having two separated front doors, in a window-door-window-door-window line-up of bays across the front of the house. It is about 1/4 mile off Hwy