Locust Grove

Locust Grove - Where Louisville Begins

561 Blankenbaker Lane, Louisville, KY 40207

Monday - Saturday 10:00am to 4:30pm | Sunday 1:00pm to 4:30pm

About Locust Grove

The ca. 1790 Georgian mansion, recently re-restored to near its original appearance, is the centerpiece to the rolling fields, woodlands, gardens and farm buildings. Learn More

18th Century Market Fair

October 29-30: The Illinois Regiment is camped at Locust Grove, with 18th century style food, vendors, entertainment, and recruitment and battles for Independence. Learn More

Upcoming Events

Afternoon Lecture Series

Wednesday, 1:00pm

1816: The Year Without A Summer

-Brian Goode, WAVE 3

1816 was a year full of strange weather patterns. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, with excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern United States and Europe in the summer of 1816. In the U.S., the unseasonable weather lead to food shortages, religious revivals, and extensive migration from New England to the Midwest. In Europe, the cold and wet summer led to famine, food riots, the transformation of stable communities into wandering beggars, and one of the worst typhus epidemics in history. However, no one in the 19th century understood that events on the far side of the world were the cause of the global climate change they experienced.

Join WAVE 3 meteorologist Brian Goode as he looks at the strange weather events that took place during the year that came to be known as the year without a summer.

The Locust Grove Afternoon Lecture Series is held the first Wednesday of each month. Dessert and coffee are served at 1:00 pm with the lecture immediately following at 1:15 PM. Admission is $5, $3 for Friends of Historic Locust Grove. Reservations are not required.

Frankenstein: A Reading Performance by Kentucky Shakespeare

Tuesday, 7:00pm

Right in time for Halloween, join Kentucky Shakespeare in the great parlor inside Locust Grove's historic home as they bring this classic story to life in a reading performance by R.N. Sandberg. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote and published Frankenstein during the Croghan's occupancy of Locust Grove, making this a perfect melding of worlds to mark the season. Light refreshments provided. Tickets $20 per person or $15 for Locust Grove members; prepaid reservations required. Call (502) 897-9845 to reserve.

18th Century Market Fair at Locust Grove

Saturday - Sunday, 10:00am - 4:30pm

You are invited to join with Locust Grove and the Illinois Regiment of Virginia as we bring the spirit of the past alive with the Market Fair. You can participate in 18th c. style entertainment, purchase replicas of 18th century military and household items, and enjoy food and drink as our founders did, see the pony cart, sheep, and horses, and meet and converse with early Americans. Mock battles for our country’s independence feature General George Rogers Clark’s own company, the Illinois Regiment of Virginia, as well as British Dragoons and Marines Concessions available, historic and modern. Admission for adults is $8 and children $4. Sponsored in part by JASNA and by Pence Insurance. Reenactors only- to register online, go to: https://lghh.wufoo.com/forms/q409tyt15633kt/ Only one registration per military unit, please.

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Locust Grove - Where Louisville Begins

561 Blankenbaker Lane, Louisville, KY 40207

Monday - Saturday 10:00am to 4:30pm | Sunday 1:00pm to 4:30pm

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