Harrods Creek in Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky — The American South (East South Central)

The Kentucky Soldiers’ Home

Photographed by Michael Herrick, May 18, 2017

1. The Kentucky Soldiers’ Home Marker

Inscription. The Kentucky Soldiers’ Home Located at Harrod's Creek, this was the only institution in Kentucky founded for Union Civil War veterans. It was proposed by the J. T. Boyle Post No. 109 of the Grand Army of the Republic. Chartered in 1890, it opened July 1891. It was established as a home for aged and infirm Union veterans not able to support themselves.

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Former Union Gen. Speed S. Fry became the first superintendent and directed the home until his death in 1892. Then, Catherine E. Hirst of the Ladies' Aid Society oversaw operations until it closed several years later. In the few years of its existence, it was home to thirty-five veterans, five of whom died at the Home.

Erected 2016 by Kentucky Historical Society · Kentucky Department of Highways. (Marker Number 2500.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Science & Medicine • War, US Civil.

Location. 38° 19.648′ N, 85° 38.07′ W. Marker is in Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County. It is in Harrods Creek. It is at the intersection of Wolf Pen Branch Road and Creekside

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Court, on the right when traveling west on Wolf Pen Branch Road. Located in front Harrods Creek of Post Office. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 6319 Upper River Road, Prospect KY 40059, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the American South,

specifically in the Upper South,

and in the Ohio River Valley.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture

and also the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Merriwether House (approx. 0.2 miles away); Harrod's Creek (approx. 1.3 miles away); Early Jewish Congregations (approx. 2.6 miles away); George Rogers Clark At Locust Grove / Lewis and Clark in Kentucky - Locust Grove (approx. 3.2 miles away); Zachary Taylor Home (approx. 3.4 miles away); Col. Richard Taylor (1744-1829)/George Rudy (1744-1806) (approx. 3.4 miles away); Wolf Pen Corridor / Wolf Pen Preservation Association, Inc. (approx.

Photographed by Michael Herrick, May 18, 2017

2. The Kentucky Soldiers’ Home Marker

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3½ miles away); Von Allmen Dairy Farm House (approx. 3½ miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Louisville.

Photographed by Michael Herrick, May 18, 2017

3. The Kentucky Soldiers’ Home Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on February 12, 2023. It was originally submitted on June 6, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut. This page has been viewed 974 times since then and 89 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on June 6, 2017, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.