Spring Station, Kentucky

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Location within the state of Kentucky this is not correct. Woodford county is in bluegrass refion, around lexington
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Spring Station
Spring Station (the US)
Coordinates: 39°9′14″N84°44′38″W / 39.15389°N 84.74389°W / 39.15389; -84.74389 Coordinates: 39°9′14″N84°44′38″W / 39.15389°N 84.74389°W / 39.15389; -84.74389
Country United States
State Kentucky
County Woodford
Elevation814 ft (248 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (est))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CST)
GNIS feature ID504150 [1]

Spring Station, Kentucky is an unincorporated community in the northern part of Woodford County, Kentucky located approximately three miles west of Midway. The area is believed to have been settled during the early part of the 19th century and it became a station stop on the Lexington and Ohio Railroad line when it was opened through the village in 1833.

Woodford County, Kentucky county in Kentucky, United States

Woodford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,939. Its county seat is Versailles.

Midway, Kentucky City in Kentucky, United States

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The Lexington and Ohio Railroad was the first railroad in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. Its charter proposed the establishment of a link between Lexington in the center of the Bluegrass Region to the river port of Louisville at the Falls of the Ohio by way of Frankfort, the state capital. The line was never completed and the Panic of 1837 led to its complete collapse. The Commonwealth seized the railroad in payment of its debts in 1840.

According to the University of Kentucky, it "was named for several nearby springs and may also have been known as Big Spring Station." [2] A postal outlet operated at Spring Station from 1856 to 1973.

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Spring Station was home to the Woodburn Stud, a thoroughbred and standardbred horse breeding operation built by Robert A. Alexander which became the birthplace of Kentucky's Thoroughbred industry.

Woodburn Stud

Woodburn Stud was an American horse breeding farm located in Woodford County, Kentucky about ten miles (16 km) from the city of Lexington. It was established in the 18th century as an original land grant property of General Hugh Mercer to whom it had been granted for his military services during the American Revolutionary War. Robert Alexander (1767–1841), a Scottish immigrant, came to Virginia from Scotland in 1786. Around 1790 he purchased the Mercer estate in Kentucky. Under the guidance of his son, Robert A. Alexander, during the 19th century, Woodburn Stud became the birthplace of Kentucky's Thoroughbred industry.

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Standardbred horse breed

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In 1869, Daniel Swigert, who bred three Kentucky Derby winners, built a 300-acre (1.2 km2) thoroughbred horse breeding business at Spring Station he named Stockwood Farm.

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spring Station, Kentucky
  2. ↑ http://www.uky.edu/KentuckyAtlas/ky-spring-station.html
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