Federal Hill Traditional Cache
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-- My Old Kentucky Home State Park --
Please park in the visitor’s parking lot and enter the park through the Visitor's Center walk-thru lobby. No tickets are needed to be purchased to geocache on the grounds of My Old Kentucky Home.
Be sure to say "Hi" to Chuck and the staff. They know you're coming and would love to hear from you.
The park is open during daylight hours.
No night caching please.
The visitor's center is open from 8:00 am till 5:00 pm daily.
Federal Hill is a Georgian style mansion that originally had 13 rooms. The number 13 is repeated throughout the house, supposedly to honor the 13 colonies at the time of America’s independence from Great Britain. The front of the home has 13 windows, and there are 13 steps to each floor of the house. Completed in 1796, the rear wing of the house contains a kitchen, two bedrooms, and a smokehouse. The first floor has a dining room, parlor, and library. The second floor has bedrooms, and the third floor contained the nursery. The house is built of brick and has six large rooms that are twenty-two feet square. Ceilings are 13 1/2 feet high. The floors are made of yellow poplar and the walls are 13 inches thick.
Madge Rowan Frost sold Federal Hill with the express wish and condition that the Commonwealth of Kentucky preserve the estate as a state shrine or historic site. Frost also gave the state the Rowan family heirlooms in perpetuity to help furnish authentically the home. The furnishings are some of the best examples of American furniture in the nation.
This should be another easy find, great for the children. You're looking for a Tupperware container with a log book and Swag for trade. While you're walking the grounds, please enjoy the chimed music that fill's the air & your heart.
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