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Historic Locust Grove is an 18th Century farm site situated in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky . The site is presently owned by the Louisville Metro government, and operated as a historic interpretive site by Historic Locust Grove, Inc. The site was founded in 1790 by William Croghan and his wife Lucy Clark Croghan . Lucy was the sister of George Rogers Clark , former surveying partner of William Croghan, who lived at the site in the final years of his life, from 1809 - 1818 . Following the death of William Croghan, the estate passed to John C. Croghan , notable for his purchase of Mammoth Cave in 1838 . In the winter of 1844 , the farm was the site of the efforts of African-American Slave Stephen Bishop to produce a map of Mammoth Cave . The resulting map was published in 1845 , and remained the most complete and accurate map of the period until modern survey techniques were applied in 1908 . A significant epilogue to Bishop's story occurred in 1972 , when a long-sought route connecting the caves of Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave Ridge was discovered in an area which Bishop had mapped, but which had in the interim been almost completely flooded by the construction of a Dam on the surface nearby: the area of the 20th Century connection route is shown on Bishop's 19th century map. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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