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LIVING ROOM, THE OLD KENTUCKY HOME, BARDSTOWN, IN OLD KENTUCKY"
WHERE STEPHENS COLLINS FOSTER WROTE MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME
COPR. BY CAUFIELD & SHOOK,
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This house, 38 miles south of Louisville and
% of a mile east of Bardstown has 7 rooms
22 x 22 feet, ceiling height 15 feet, a hall 15
x 50 feet running through the center. Here
August, 1830, Stephen Collins Foster, antol
of many negro melodies, wrote "My O1%
tucky Home." The House, built in 1798
Foster's uncle, John Rowan, later Juden and 936 Z
U. S. Senator, is a replica of Independence Hall
where the Declaration of Independence was AM
signed Darling fois we wer
through this home today
we are stormy in a coblin
here tonight one have
steam beat bath and
all we had steak and,
mims fried for our su
supper
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Miss Lois I Drake
I just hung up my washing Is ates Hall
the leaver, are tursed
and the hills and.
it is warm down here
but is cold in the
evening good by darling
we have a garage the loffens
are new stukes
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