
- from Wikipedia
The Dinsmore Homestead is located at 5656 Burlington Pike (Kentucky Route 18), 6.5 miles (10.5 km) west of Burlington, Kentucky and was completed in 1842.
In 1839 James and Martha Dinsmore purchased approximately 700 acres (2.8 km2) in Boone County, Kentucky. He and his family settled there, growing grapes, raising sheep and growing willows for a basket-making business that was overseen by German immigrants. The house is notable for containing all original artifacts that were purchased by the family primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio, and southern Indiana. Their daughter Julia Stockton Dinsmore operated the farm successfully from 1872 until her death at age 93 in 1926.
Some of the interesting events the Dinsmores were involved in include: relations between the U. S. Government and the Cherokee and Choctaw, early Republic land speculations, (for example, Macomb's Purchase), the Texas Revolution of 1836, Early Republic politics, the Adams Express Company, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the sinking of the Titanic, the sinking of the Lusitania, and World War One.
In 1987, the Dinsmore Homestead Foundation purchased the home and approximately 30 acres to preserve the site. Primary sources allow docents to highlight the Dinsmore family's connections to people like:
- George Washington
- Andrew Jackson
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Henry Clay
- Alexander Macomb
- Silas Dinsmoor
- James Bowie
- John Bell
- Samuel Bell
- John Ross
- General Alexander Macomb
- Margaret Coxe
- Matthew Brady
- Nellie Taft
- Enid Sandell
- Tyrone Power
- Sarah Gibson Humphreys
- Benjamin F. Goodrich
- Randall L. Gibson
- Julia Marlowe
- Charles E. Flandrau
- Charles M. Flandrau
- Grace Flandrau
- John W. Riddle
- Theodore Pope Riddle
- David Goodrich
- Robert H. M. Ferguson
- Ronald Munro Ferguson
- John Jacob Astor IV
- Isabella Selmes Ferguson Greenway King
- John Campbell Greenway
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
- Douglas Robinson
- Corinne Robinson Alsop
- William Loving
- James Henry Breasted
..... Add to the list if there's a connection.
Sources
- Miller, Kristie. Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.
- Conroy, Will. Tucson's Arizona Inn. Tucson, Ariz: Arizona Inn, 2010. Page 24.