BOURBON COUNTY, KENTUCKY

Source: "Stockading Up" by Nancy O'Malley. Kentucky Heritage Council, University of Kentucky Program for Cultural Assessment, April 30, 1987, p. 92.

Documentation for this station is very sparse. Ardery (1939:14) places this site in present North Middletown which was formerly known as Swinneytown. Smith (1923:66) states that it was originally settled around 1783. Among the early inhabitants were William Adair who kept a tavern and James Cogswell who ran a store. No Virginia land grants are listed for Swinney name or its other common form, Sweeney. The only primary source of information found was in Shane's interview of James Hedge (Draper mss. 12CC117-120). Hedge stated that Swinney was married to a Huff. He sold lots for which he could not provide title after which the place became "dissipated" and owners hauled away houses. No determination of eligibility could be made for this site.