Bryan Station, Bryan Station Pike, Lexington

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On Bryan Station Pike, thre.e and one-half miles northeast of Lexington, Fayotte County, Kentucky Owner or Wm. G. II. Wood custodian: Address: Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Bate built: (approx) Architect or builder: Present condition: Excellent Number of stories: One and a half stories. Material used Foundation: Brick (probably) in construction; Exterior walls: Brick and frame weatherboard ed. Interior partitions: Floors: Roof: Frame construction, covered with wood shingles. Description: The home "Bryan Station" built by architectural Joseph Rogers, was so named because it and historical was on the site of Wm, Bryan's first cabin station built when he explored the wilderness of Kentucky in company with Daniel Boons and Simon Kenton. Quoting W. C. H.

Wood: "in the yard is the outline of a pioneer stockade fort which was the scene of an Indian siege and battle between a handful of pioneers and five hundred savages, commanded by British Officers", # H AJ&S ' " ' '1 2 Quoting Collins History of Kentucky, Vol. II, page "Bryan's Station, about five miles northeast of Lexington, was settled by the Bryans in In Bryan1 s Station was much harrassed "by small parties of Indians. This was a .frontier post, and greatly exposed to the hostilities of the savages"* Record of the siege on August 14, arid 15, by a body of about six hundred Indians, lead by the notorious renegade, Simon Girty, may be found on pages and of the sasie volume. Bryan Station has remained in possession of descendants of Joseph Rogers sinoe it was built. J&.

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