Fielding Bradford House

Historic house in Kentucky, United States

United States historic place


Fielding Bradford House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

38°14′42″N 84°34′46″W / 38.24500°N 84.57944°W / 38.24500; -84.57944
NRHP reference No.	73000831 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 4, 1973

The Fielding Bradford House is an historic house built on a tract of land near North Elkhorn and Cane Run Creeks in Scott County, Kentucky.^[2] The house was originally owned by Fielding Bradford and is an example of an early Kentucky weatherboarded log house.^[1] The property was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973.

Fielding Bradford was the brother of printer and early Kentucky settler John Bradford.^[3] He left working on the Kentucky Gazette in the spring of 1788 when he married Eleanor Smith Barbee and moved to Scott County where he became a political and military leader. He served in the Kentucky General Assembly as a State Representative in 1802, 1803, 1808, 1809 and 1811. During the War of 1812 he was quartermaster for George Trotter's Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Militia.^[4] He was also a county court judge.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ Bevins, Ann Bolton (1989). A History of Scott County as Told by Selected Buildings. Georgetown, Kentucky. pp. 17, 18.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Federal Writers' Project (1996). The WPA Guide to Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky. p. 102. ISBN 0-8131-0865-9. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
^ Quisenberry, A.C. (September 1912). "Kentucky Troops in the War of 1812". Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society. 10 (30): 59. JSTOR 23367236.