{"id":145,"date":"2016-10-20T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/locust\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:54:01","slug":"locust","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/locust\/","title":{"rendered":"The Locust"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Locust<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nHome of the Little Colonel and the Old Colonel<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the \u201cLittle Colonel\u201d stories, The Locust was the home of the Little Colonel\u2019s grandfather, the Old Colonel, and at the end of the first book became her home as well. Betty, the Little Colonel\u2019s friend in the stories, often referred to it as the \u201cHouse Beautiful.\u201d In real life, Hattie Cochran\u2019s grandfather, Colonel George Washington Weissinger, summered here for a time. Located on a portion of a 4,000-acre land grant to Samuel Beall in 1784, Locust is one of Pewee Valley\u2019s oldest properties. Incorporated in the home is an original settlers\u2019 fort dating to 1819 or before. Annie Fellows Johnston referred to Locust\u2019s tree-lined drive as the \u201cAvenue of Trees.\u201d Just inside the gates is Pewee Valley\u2019s last standing interurban shelter.  The Locust is located at 6917 LaGrange Road, and is not visible from the road, but you can see what\u2019s left of the Avenue of Trees, and the “Lloydsboro” Interurban shelter inside the stone gate.<\/p>\n

The Locust is perhaps the most venerable property in Pewee\/Lloydsboro Valley.  Parts of it date from the late 1700s to the 1830s, with more additions in 1903.  It stands on the site of, and may even incorporate some of the original settlers fort.  The photo above is contemporary to the Little Colonel stories.<\/p>\n

From The Call of the Pewee newsletter, January 2007<\/p>\n

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and located at 6917 LaGrange Road, The Locust is the oldest standing structure in Pewee Valley that still reveals its early form as an important example of an early stone house in Oldham County, a Pewee Valley country estate, and for its role as the setting for many of The Little Colonel books written by noted Pewee Valley children\u2019s author Annie Fellows Johnston. The house consists of an L-shaped stone section probably built in several stages around 1800, a large, nearly square hip-roofed brick section probably built during the 1830\u2019s, and a rear, frame, bedroom
\nwing and an extension of the north front corner of the brick section, which date from about 1903. The one-and-a-half-storey early stone portion of the house, itself built in at least two stages, has a full-width, full-height portico that used to be the front fa\u00e7ade of the house. The present front entrance, turned 180 degrees from the original entrance and located in the 1830\u2019s one-storey brick section, has a flat-roofed porch capped by a Chippendale-styled balustrade and large, double-paneled doors topped by overlights. The house is part of a 4,000 acre land grant given to Samuel Beall in 1784.<\/p>\n

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\nthe facade<\/p>\n

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\nPart of the original stone fort, late 1700s<\/p>\n

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\nAnother view of the facade<\/p>\n

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\nAvenue of Trees
\nAll photos above ca. 1900<\/p>\n

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\nRecent photos of the Locust Avenue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Locust Home of the Little Colonel and the Old Colonel In the \u201cLittle Colonel\u201d stories, The Locust was the home of the Little Colonel\u2019s grandfather, the Old Colonel, and at the end of the first book became her home as well. Betty, the Little Colonel\u2019s friend in the stories, often referred to it as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}