Dinsmore Homestead

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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: 

1. George Washington
2. Andrew Jackson
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Eleanor Roosevelt
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. Henry Clay
7. Alexander Macomb
8. Silas Dinsmoor
9. James Bowie
10. John Bell
11. Samuel Bell
12. John Ross
13. General Alexander Macomb
14. Margaret Coxe
15. Matthew Brady
16. Nellie Taft
17. Enid Sandell
18. Tyrone Power
19. Sarah Gibson Humphreys
20. Benjamin F. Goodrich
21. Randall L. Gibson
22. Julia Marlowe
23. Charles E. Flandrau
24. Charles M. Flandrau
25. Grace Flandrau
26. John W. Riddle
27. Theodore Pope Riddle
28. David Goodrich
29. Robert H. M. Ferguson
30. Ronald Munro Ferguson
31. John Jacob Astor IV
32. Isabella Selmes Ferguson Greenway King
33. John Campbell Greenway
34. Theodore Roosevelt
35. Henry Cabot Lodge
36. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
37. Douglas Robinson
38. Corinne Robinson Alsop
39. William Loving
40. James Henry Breasted

..... Add to the list if there's a connection. 

Sources 

1. Miller, Kristie. Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.
2. Conroy, Will. Tucson's Arizona Inn. Tucson, Ariz: Arizona Inn, 2010. Page 24.

Links

• Dinsmore Farm, Boone, Kentucky
• A partial genealogy of the Dinsmoor-Dinsmore family.  Based on "The Earliest History & Genealogy of the Dinsmoor - Dinsmore Family of Scotland, Ireland and America" by Leonard Allison Morrison, A. M. published in 1891