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Kentucky

500 White Hall Shrine Road
Richmond, KY 40475, USA

Website: www.parks.ky.gov/parks/historicsites/white-hall/ »

Cassius Marcellus Clay, "the Lion of White Hall, " was an outspoken emancipationist, newspaper publisher, and minister to Russia under his friend Abraham Lincoln. This Italianate mansion, furnished in period pieces, was built for Clay and has many noteworthy features.

Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate
Lexington, Kentucky | On October 18, 1862, as Confederate troops were retreating from the Battle of Perryville, action took place on this historic site.
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Lexington, Kentucky | Both Confederate and Union armies prized the Standardbred horses raised on this historic site and modern day State Park, a plantation that primarily grew tobacco and hemp.
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Bowling Green, Kentucky | This historic site, an Italianate mansion, was constructed by Atwood Hobson, one of the most ardent Union supporters in southern Kentucky. Atwood's son, Union Col. William Hobson, requested that Brig. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner spare the property during the Confederate occupation of Bowling Green.
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Louisville, Kentucky | Completed in 1816, this historic site was the center of a 550 acre hemp plantation owned by the Speed family and sustained by nearly 60 slaves.
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