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Three Kentucky Presidents Sponsored by The Indiana Historical Society |
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Day 1: Indianapolis - Louisville - Lexington Travel by coach to Louisville where we will tour significant sights in Louisville related to Zachary Taylor and the civil war with our guide from The Filson Historical Society ending at The Filson for a talk with the curator and viewing of their Davis and Taylor collection. After lunch on your own, we head to Farmington, the plantation home of Joshua Speed, Lincoln’s best friend. View their new permanent exhibit: Lincoln & Farmington: An Enduring Friendship. Our host hotel, The Gratz Park Inn, is located in the historic Gratz Park area of downtown Lexington and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Our welcome dinner this evening is at Murray’s Restaurant, a restored manor house where you’ll savor regional cuisine. (CB, D) Day 2: Lexington A self-guided tour begin your day at the park-like setting of the Lexington Cemetery where many distinguished Kentuckians have been memorialized including Henry Clay, General John Hunt Morgan, John C. Breckinridge and The Todd’s. More than 500 Confederate and 1,100 Union Veterans are interred here. The Lexington Cemetery has a national reputation for being one of the most beautiful cemeteries in America. Tour the Mary Todd Lincoln Home where Mary lived from 1832-1839. The home includes Todd family furnishings as well as Todd and Lincoln memorabilia. After lunch on your own tour Transylvania University which was attended by Jefferson Davis and used by union troops as a hospital. Union troops camped in Gratz Park right in front of the Hunt-Morgan House. Time permitting, tour the Hunt-Morgan House before returning to our hotel. Dinner this evening at Holly Hill Inn, a charming restaurant in the heart of Bluegrass Horse Country. The Inn, built ca. 1845, offers fine dining in an historic country setting. Our dinner guest and speaker, Dr. James Klotter, was the Executive Director of the Kentucky Historical Society for many years. He is now Professor of History at Georgetown College and is the State Historian of Kentucky. Dr. Klotter will do a talk on “Three Kentucky Presidents.” (B, D) Day 3: Lexington - Richmond - Hodgenville - Indianapolis Travel to the Richmond area where we will tour White Hall, home of one of Kentucky’s most outspoken emancipationists, Cassius Marcellus Clay. This friend of Lincoln was called “the lion of White Hall” for his fiery oratory. With an interpreter, view Kentucky’s largest Civil War battlefield, Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site. Except for a few narrow ribbons of pavement that wind through the coutryside, views of where the engagements took place remain much the same. Enjoy a box lunch on the battlefield (weather permitting). Drive through nearby Sleettown, a community of freed slaves. Tour the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site which features 116 acres of the farm where Lincoln was born and a granite memorial shrine enclosing a cabin symbolic of the one in which Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. (B, L) |
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Cancellation policy: if
insurance is not purchased, cancellation charges are: March
1,
2010
and earlier: full refund; after this date: no refund. |
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