Re: Home for Friendless Women Another site http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:R2Z4SV-MIjMJ:www.soulofamerica.com/cityfldr/louisville3.html+ky+Home+for+Friendless+Women&hl=en Perhaps a search on the name of this family/name: Susan Speed " Farmington Historic Home Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; completed ~1816 for John and Lucy Speed, wealthy hemp plantation owners; built from a plan by Thomas Jefferson, the house and furnishings are representative of the period between 1815 and 1840; the garden is based on early 19th-century plans of Kentucky gardens, a stone barn and springhouse have been restored on the eighteen-acre property, and in 1992 a summer kitchen was reconstructed; Farmington's most famous guest was Abraham Lincoln, who visited the Speed family in 1841; the Visitors' Center, dedicated in 1993, houses staff offices as well as an educational center, and the Carriage House is used for special events; Farmington was typical of its time in farm management and slave life; Every part of the enterprise was made profitable by the labor of slaves who were also frequently hired out to neighboring plantations; births and deaths, purchases, slaves and occasional runaways contributed to the ebb and flow of the slave! population. The house and land bustled with the activity of slaves and their children, the Speed family, and their frequent business and social visitors; one slave, named Morocco, was so trusted by John Speed that he traveled as a business courier; at John Speed's death in 1840, fifty-seven slaves were listed as inventory; earlier, daughter SUSAN, who later established The Home for Friendless Women, received five slaves; although this was common practice, it contributed to the break-up of slave families; another daughter, Peachy, who took over the management of the plantation in 1845, received slaves upon her marriage to Austin L. Peay in 1832; some Speed family members freed their slaves; according to court documents in 1845, Lucy G. Speed, John's widow, and their daughter Lucy F. Breckinridge emancipated three slaves - Rose, Sally and her son Harrod; other family members, such as sons J. Smith, Joshua, Phillip and daughters Mary and Eliza freed their slaves between 1863 ! and 1865; Peachy Speed Peay, whose husband Austin had died during the 1849 cholera epidemic, sold Farmington in 1865; Tue-Sat 10a-4:30p, Sun 1:30p-4:30p; 3033 Bardstown Road near Wadsworth Ave; 502-452-9920; http://www.historichomes.org/fmframe.htm _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com