No night caching or caching on Sundays.
Zion Hill Baptist Church was organized in 1869 in the village of Zion Hill, located in the southern part of Scott County off of Paynes Depot Road near the Woodford/Fayette County line. The present church was erected in 1927 with the Reverend William Alexander serving as pastor.
The community was developed prior to the end of slavery, according to Ponice Raglin Cruse, a former resident and collector of the community's history. The original name of the community was Lenerson. The land had been deeded to the African American residents by a farmer and slave owner named Harris from Virginia.
Lenerson grew to include over 200 acres with approximately 45 homes and two stores, one of which housed the post office that existed from 1900-1903. With a population of 250 or more persons, it remained a fairly well-off African American community until the late 1990s. It is thought that the community's name was changed to Zion Hill while the post office was still in operation, perhaps around the time that the original Zion Hill Baptist Church was constructed.
Whitney Young Sr. attended the colored grade school in Lenerson; later the community had a one-room schoolhouse, a Rosenwald School. In 1945, the Zion Hill Rosenwald School was closed, and the children were bused to the White Sulfur Elementary School and the Ed Davis High School, both in Scott County .
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.