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Portrait of Elizabeth Wood Bayless, circa 1815
Elizabeth Wood Bayless was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She migrated to Mason County, Kentucky, with her family sometime within the first decade of Kentucky's statehood. Her father, George Wood, was a Revolutionary War Veteran who was one of the first Baptist preachers to settle in the region. Elizabeth married Benjamin Bayless in 1798 in Mason County, Kentucky. -
Portrait of Johannes Lewis Castleman (1744-1828)
Johannes "Lewis" Castleman was born in 1744 in Stone Arbria, Tryon County, in the English colony of New York. In 1765, he married Jemima Margaret Pearsall in Frederick, Virginia. He first appears in Kentucky records in 1787 in a petition that established Charlestown, and again in 1788 when Woodford County was carved out of Fayette County. He had a farm along Clear Creek, which included a tannery and a distillery that made apple brandy. He enslaved ten persons in 1810 and eighteen persons in 1819. -
Portrait of Jemima Pearsall Castleman
Jemima Pearsall Castleman married Johannes "Lewis" Castleman in Frederick, Virginia, in 1765, when she was approximately fifteen years of age. She was the mother of eight children that were born between 1770 and 1797. She came to the frontier with her husband sometime between 1787 and 1800. They lived on a farm along Clear Creek in Woodford County that included a tannery and a distillery that made apple brandy. The Castlemans enslaved ten persons in 1810 and eighteen persons in 1819. -
Ollie's Trolley, Feburary, 22, 1974
In the early 1970s, Jasper Ward was hired to design a prototype for former Kentucky Governor and restaurateur John Y. Brown's new fast-food venture. Ollie's Trolley is a restaurant franchise built free-standing and modeled after a historic trolley car. The digitized items in our set are of the exterior elevations of the trolley cars. We also have one drawing on poster board of an Ollie's Trolley restaurant, location unknown.