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The Locust
The Locust
Home of the Little Colonel and the Old
Colonel
The Locust is perhaps the most
venerable property in Pewee/Lloydsboro Valley. Parts of it
date from the late 1700s to the 1830s, with more additions in 1903.
It stands on the site of, and may even incorporate some of the
original settlers fort. The photo above is contemporary to the
Little Colonel stories.
From
The
Call of the Pewee newsletter, January 2007
Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places and located at 6917
LaGrange Road, The Locust is the oldest standing structure in
Pewee Valley that still reveals its early form as an important
example of an early stone house in Oldham County, a Pewee Valley
country estate, and for its role as the setting for many of The
Little Colonel books written by noted Pewee Valley children’s
author Annie Fellows Johnston. The house consists of an L-shaped
stone section probably built in several stages around 1800, a
large, nearly square hip-roofed brick section probably built
during the 1830’s, and a rear, frame, bedroom
wing and an extension of the north front corner of the brick
section, which date from about 1903. The one-and-a-half-storey
early stone portion of the house, itself built in at least two
stages, has a full-width, full-height portico that used to be
the front façade of the house. The present front entrance,
turned 180 degrees from the original entrance and located in the
1830’s one-storey brick section, has a flat-roofed porch capped
by a Chippendale-styled balustrade and large, double-paneled
doors topped by overlights. The house is part of a 4,000 acre
land grant given to Samuel Beall in 1784.
the facade
Part of the original stone fort, late 1700s
Another view of the facade
Avenue of Trees
All photos
above ca. 1900
Recent photos of the Locust
Avenue
This Site:
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What's New? Biography of Annie Fellows
Johnston,
Books on Line (Complete
Original Little Colonel Book Series)
The Little Colonel (link to U. Penn))
The
Giant Scissors
Two Little
Knights of Kentucky
The Little Colonel's
House Party
The Little Colonel's
Holidays
The Little Colonel's Hero
The Little Colonel
at Boarding-School
The Little Colonel in
Arizona
The Little
Colonel's Christmas Vacation
The Little Colonel, Maid of
Honor
The Little Colonel's
Knight Comes Riding
Mary Ware, The Little Colonel's
Chum
Mary Ware in Texas
Mary Ware's Promised Land
Check our home page for more titles by AFJ on other sites
The People & Characters:
The Little Colonel, Papa
Jack and Mrs. Sherman, The
Old Colonel, Two Little
Knights of Kentucky,
Two Little Knights of Kentucky(2),
Uncle Sidney & Aunt
Elise, parents of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky,
Grandmother McIntyre,
Aunt Allison, The
Waltons, Rob and Anna
Moore, Betty,
Joyce Ware,
Jack Ware, Mom Beck,
Walker, Katherine Marks,
Gay Melville,
The Lees of Arizona,
Small Parts
Their Final Resting Places
The Places: in Pewee (Lloydsboro) Valley:
Map,
Map 2,
Where it all began, The Locust,
The Beeches
Edgewood,
The Little Colonel's Cottage,
The Railroad Station,
"Lloydsboro Seminary",
Clovercroft, The
Post Office, Churches,
The Haunted House at Hartwell Hollow,
Confederate Home
Rollington,
Minor Places In Old Louisville:
The Culbertson
Mansion, "Home of a Hero" Elsewhere:
The Cuckoo's Nest (Indiana),
Lee's Ranch,
Camelback Mountain &
Hole-in-Rock (Arizona),
San Antonio and
The Little Town of Bauer (Boerne),
Texas,
The Gate of the Giant Scissors (France)
Letters from Annie
Fellows Johnston and "Mrs Walton"
Scrapbook
Links
Cooking with The Little Colonel
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