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Book Title: A History Of Jessamine County, Kentucky

Church Land

   Judge Tucker Woodson's place was for a long time known as "Church Land," and
the origin of the name was interesting. An English gentleman of finished
education and culture, of scientific tastes and talents, was a guest at
Chaumiere, and became in time almost a part of the household. His name was
Church. He had been with Robert Fulton experimenting with steam, and came from
Pittsburgh down the Ohio river to Maysville on the first steamboat that ever ran
on the river. From Maysville he came to Lexington, and thence to Maysville, and
made many experiments in his endeavors to perfect this wonderful invention and
its application to the movement of vessels. He finally returned to England,
married and brought his wife to Jessamine county to be near Colonel Meade and
family. He was a man of independent means and built a quaint English cottage on
the Woodson estate in the place now occupied by Mr. Jesse Bryan and lived there
some years, and from this circumstance the place was always called Church Land.
After some years Mr. Church removed to Lexington and died there.


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A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF
BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be
measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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