This prominent African American community, established before enslavement ended and originally called South EIkhorn Bend & Lenerson, had two stores, a church and a post office. Whitney M. Young, whose father was an educator and later the president of Lincoln Institute— an African American boarding school—and whose mother was the first African American postmaster in Kentucky, began his early education here at the Rosenwald School. Like his father, Whitney would go on to become the president of Lincoln Institute.
The cities of Georgetown, Sadieville and the Georgetown/Scott County Tourism Commission are pleased to announce the opening of the Scott County African American Heritage Geotrail! The geotrail consists of 8 geocaches for everyone regardless of your skill level in geocaching and spotlights African American historic sites rich in history located in the Georgetown/Scott County area.
Passports are available at the event and through the Georgetown Scott County Tourism Office. The passports list the coordinates and significant history of each of the sites. At each site you will need to locate the geocache container that contains a log. Written on the log and cache container (in most cases) will be a code word that you need to write down on the passport in the corresponding block to show that you have found the cache. Upon completion of all of the geocaches listed on the passport along with each corresponding code word, you will need to bring your completed passport to the Georgetown Scott County Tourism Office, 399 Outlet Center Dr, Georgetown, to receive a FREE trackable 2" geocoin.