Little Rock Precinct
Situated on level terrain facing Jackstown Road, this two-story, three-bay brick Greek Revival house has four colossal pilasters defining the front bays. Stone trim includes the fine lintels with raised upper edges and a belt course above the foundation. Italianate brackets remain on the side and rear cornices. A single-story brick outbuilding and a one-story weatherboarded log meathouse remain intact.
Henry F. Hibler is listed here on both the 1861 and 1877 maps. A son of Adam S. Hibler of Bourbon and Woodford Counties, he was a farmer and stockraiser.
Whitley; Perrin, p. 470; 1966 NM Calendar.
Situated on a rise overlooking the broad valley below, this substantial two-story weatherboarded saddlebag log house consists of two rectangular pens flanking an enormous stone chimney with a brick cap. In a good state of repair, it is a rare illustration of a saddlebag log dwelling in the county. In close proximity is a one-and-a-half -story log pen superimposed by a frame barn. The pen is secured by primitive saddlebag corner timbering.
One of several Banta homesteads in the area, this early house was constructed in 1814 for Andrew Banta. He was a son of Henry Banta, who emigrated to Kentucky from Pennsylvania in the late eighteenth century. According to Perrin, Banta and his family lived at Bryant's and Harrod's Stations before settling in the Flat Rock area of Bourbon County. A son of Andrew Banta, Lot, inherited the family farm, and was listed here on both the 1861 and 1877 maps.
Mrs. Whitley; Perrin, pp. 523-524.
Exhibiting the proportions of an early structure, this two-story weatherboarded and asbestos siding log dwelling is representative of the predominant form of log construction in Bourbon County, a rectangular single-pen with a fenestration of three bays on the first floor, and two-bays on the second level. It has a hall-parlor plan and a large exterior stone chimney.
The 1861 map records A. Arnold as the owner. He sold the farm to Richard
Hinkle, listed here on the 1877 map. Hinkle was one of the original members
of the Flat Rock Methodist Church.
One of the oldest Protestant churches west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Cane Ridge Meetinghouse has been enshrined as the birthplace of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). According to a reference in the Shane papers, the original unchinked log structure may have been built as early as 1789. The church was definitely present by 1791, when it was first mentioned in the Minutes of the Transylvania Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church. It was used as a Presbyterian Church until at least 1811, but its most important role was as the focal point of the largest and most famous revival meeting of the Great Awakening, held in the fields and woods around it in August 1801.
Preserved within a stone shrine, the original building is a two-story
rectangular log structure with entrances in the centers of the short ends
and curious shallow projections in the center of the log sides. These apparently
served not only to suggest a cruciform plan, but also, perhaps, to allow
the juncture of two sets of logs end to end as the building was too long
for single-log construction even at that early date. It has been restored
with rows of long "shakes" in the gables and minimal 
openings protected by batten doors or shutters. A deep gallery along
three sides permits only a relatively small open two-story area in the center
and over the pulpit area. According to Coleman, "In 1829, the old building
was weatherboarded, lathed and plastered, and had a large gallery on the
second floor for the family servants which was reached by a ladder."
Although the bold stone shrine, echoing the cross-shape on a larger scale,
with stained-glass windows prevents the exterior log structure from being
perceived in even approximately its original wooded context, it has protected
the structure itself.
The congregation was established largely by Presbyterians from North Carolina, and the first recorded minister was the Rev. Andrew McClure (1735-93), who had organized the Stonermouth Church in Ruddles Mills in 1787. Several ministers in the area served the church from 1793 to 1797, but it was the Rev. Barton Warren Stone who had the greatest impact during his tenure, 1798-1803. By 1816 the congregation was considered a Christian Church, and was used primarily by several local families who supported it for over a century. After the Rev. Robert W. Finley, pastor at Cane Ridge (1793-95), and part of the congregation emigrated to Ohio in 1796, Stone moved to the area, taking charge of both the Cane Ridge and Concord congregations in 1798. In early 1801 he attended one of the most important and early "camp meetings" at the Red River Meeting House in Logan County in southern Kentucky. Stone returned to sponsor the largest meeting of all around the Cane Ridge meeting house. Over 10,000 persons are said to have assembled here for about a week in early August 1801, many of whom received manifestations of the spirit. Three years later Stone and five Presbyterian ministers withdrew from the church and organized an independent church known as the "Christian Church." In 1832, at a meeting in Lexington, the followers of Stone and of two former Presbyterian ministers, Thomas Campbell and his more famous son Alexander, who had organized a similar movement in 1809, were united to form the Disciples of Christ.
The Cane Ridge Meetinghouse remained throughout the 19th century not only a religious institution but also a community center. Several prominent local families were the mainstay of the congregation, overseeing the 1829 improvements and later maintenance. The meetinghouse was again remodelled in 1882. In 1932 it was restored as part of the centennial celebration of the union of the Stone and Campbell forces.
The Bedford limestone shrine was dedicated in 1957, and the nearby B. W. Stone Memorial Building, a stone and frame structure in a contemporary vein, in 1975. The adjacent cemetery, which contains the gravestones of many early settlers and founders of the Christian Church, including a cenotaph of Stone, has interest as a cross-section of 19th-century commemorative monuments as well.
Whitley; Sanders, Presbyterianism, esp. pp. 200-215; Brown, Churches
of Christ; Perrin, pp' 538-41; Butler, Ist Christian Church, Paris, pp.
7-12; Henry G. Love, Chronology; Coleman, Hist. Ky., p. 88.