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Dinsmore Homestead Fields (Boone County, Ky.)
"Many of the grain crops and, later, tobacco for Dinsmore Homestead were raised on the other side of Burlington Pike. The road itself did not exist until after the death of James Dinsmore.
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Dinsmore Homestead Wine House (Boone County, Ky.)
"The wine house was constructed by a local carpenter. Previous to 1870, James Dinsmore was making wine and cider on his property, but it was then that he chose to construct a building specifically for making his libations. The cellar is where the work was completed. The upper floor was occasionally used for visiting servants, to hang hams, and to house tenants.
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Dinsmore Homestead Orchard (Boone County, Ky.)
"On top of the ridge [near the horse barn,] was the Dinsmore orchard. According to the 1880 census the farm had approximately one thousand apple trees and one hundred peach trees. The documentation left by James and Julia Dinsmore indicates that they also planted cherry, quince, plum, and pear trees. A tenant house was located on “Cherry Hill” and the cistern from this homesite is still visible from the hiking trail." --Cathy Callopy
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Dinsmore Homestead Horse Barn (Boone County, Ky.)
"The Dinsmore family owned about two hundred acres of hills behind the main house. Although the hills themselves were utilized as sheep and goat pastures, the lower portion was kept as a horse pasture. If you follow the path to the left of the carriage house, you will find the horse barn, which was originally joined with mortise-and-tenon construction." --Cathy Callopy
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Dinsmore Homestead Privy Building (Boone County, Ky.)
"The privy was built behind the carriage house to give some privacy to the family. There are four holes in this structure which could be emptied from the back. That feature made it easier to make use of the waste as fertilizer in the fields. Contemporary chemistry books and agricultural journals encouraged such use of nitrogen-rich human waste." --Cathy Callopy
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Dinsmore Homestead Carriage House (Boone County, Ky.)
"Inside this structure is the rockaway carriage that was purchased in 1880 by Julia Dinsmore in Cincinnati. She paid two hundred dollars for the carriage that features leather and corduroy upholstery. Not many families in rural Boone County would have been able to afford such a luxury. " --Cathy Callopy
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Dinsmore Homestead Ice House (Boone County, Ky.)
"An ice house was a must-have for any farm and being located so close to the Ohio River made it rather easy to collect ice in the winter months. Although the river may not have frozen completely over every winter, there were often chunks of ice floating downriver in January and February, allowing local farmers and others to collect the ice and store it for the winter months. After being cut in blocks, the ice would have been placed in the stone-walled cellar underneath this building. Layers of ice would be insulated from warm summer temperatures by layers of sawdust or straw.
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Dinsmore Homestead Log Kitchen (Boone County, Ky.)
"We know this log building was constructed in 1841 because we have the letter from James Dinsmore’s brother, John, explaining he was in the process of putting the logs up for it. This is where all the cooking for the family, the slaves, and the farm laborers was completed. James Dinsmore had this outdoor kitchen constructed for two reasons: a fear that it would burn down and an unwillingness to endure hot summer days inside the main house with a fire going almost constantly.
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Dinsmore Homestead Garage (Boone County, Ky.)
"Next to the smokehouse is a garage. Somewhere around 1915, Julia and/or her niece, Patty Selmes purchased a Ford Model T touring car. That is probably when this structure was built. Although Patty learned to drive (having no husband to drive her around), Julia had Harry Roseberry drive her around. Harry was responsible for keeping the Ford in running order and he became quite a mechanic.
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Dinsmore Homestead Smokehouse (Boone County, Ky.)
"As you walk from the Roseberry House toward the main house you pass several buildings. The first is the smokehouse. We know that this was moved from somewhere else and placed here at a later date. Originally it would have been near the hog-slaughtering shed (or what some farmers would have called the "piggery"). The smokehouse was an indispensable farm building because smoking meat was the primary means of preserving it.
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Roseberry House (Boone County, Ky.)
"Harry Roseberry came to work for Julia Dinsmore in 1895 as a young teenager. He continued to live on the farm until 1968, dying just a little over a year after he was taken to Cincinnati by his daughter. On November 23, 1904, he was married to Sussie Riley in Rising Sun, Indiana, by an African American preacher named John Green.
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Susan Utz Farm (Boone County, Ky.)
Located on Bullittsville Road north of Burlington, the Susan Utz Farm is the site of the Susan Utz House, the Utz Cemetery and the Utz Slave Cemetery.
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Vineyard Christian Fellowship Building (Boone County, Ky.)
Denomination: Vineyard Christian Fellowship
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Woodhaven Baptist Church Building (Boone County, Ky.)
Denomination: Baptist
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Beech Grove Holiness Church Building (Boone County, Ky.)
Denomination: Holiness
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Cornerstone Baptist Church Building (Boone County, Ky.)
Denomination: Baptist