{"id":304,"date":"2016-10-26T01:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T01:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/tanglewood-its-history\/"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T15:03:28","slug":"tanglewood-its-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/tanglewood-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"“Tanglewood” Its History"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Tanglewood” <\/span>
\nits History<\/strong>
\nWhere Rob Moore professes his love to the Little Colonel<\/em>
\na Lloydsboro (Pewee) Valley Landmark
\nGo to Tanglewood in the Little Colonel Stories<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nTanglewood\u2019s exterior as it appears today.<\/p>\n

According to the Statement of Significance submitted by Historic Pewee Valley to the National Register of Historic Places:<\/p>\n

Tanglewood is a rare example of a nineteenth century house whose building date and specification are well documented in a newspaper advertisement for the sale of the house. On July 30, 1869, in Louisville\u2019s \u201cCourier-Journal,\u201d appears the following ad:<\/p>\n

             For Sale \u2013 in Pewee Valley \u2013 \u201cHillside Cottage\u201d and 10 acres ground \u2013 lies immediately 
\n            on the Railroad adjoining St. James Episcopal Church and within a 5 minutes walk of the 
\n            depot. The house is being built and will be ready for occupancy August 10, is Swiss in 
\n            style and contains 10 rooms, has all requisite closets with storerooms and cellar. Must be 
\n            seen to be appreciated. Will take good low-priced unimproved city property in part 
\n            payment. Apply on the premises to John F. Dickson, Trustee. <\/em><\/p>\n

The ad \u2026establishes that the house was built on speculation. A deed search indicates that the property was purchased in February, 1869 by Louisa Dickson, wife of John F. Dickson, and in April was sold to Jonas H. Rhorer and Charles B. Cotton, two Pewee Valley residents who were involved in a great number of local land transactions during the late 1860s and 1870s. The property, still identified as Rhorer\u2019s on Beers and Lanagan\u2019s 1879 map of Pewee Valley, was exchanged back and forth between Rhorer, Cotton and several other business partners during the 1870s before being sold as a result of Rhorer\u2019s extreme financial difficulties. Nothing is known of J. H. Turner, the 1884 purchaser of the property. Turner and his family owned the house until 1911, making them the longest owners until the present resident, who has owned the property since 1951. <\/p>\n

The name \u201cTanglewood\u201d has been associated with the house at least since the turn-of-the-century, when Annie Fellows Johnston used it to name this property, which figures prominently in several of her Little Colonel books\u2026 on the 1879 Beers map, the name \u201cTanglewood\u201d appears on the property immediately north of the present day Tanglewood, suggesting that the name had an earlier origin.<\/p>\n

Research conducted in 2003 by University of Kentucky archeologist Jay Stottman traces the estate\u2019s name to the early 1820s when the land was owned by the Souther family, who came to Kentucky from Culpepper, Virginia. The following genealogical information on the Southers was supplied by Richard Dennis Souther of the Souther Family Association in Honolulu, Hawaii:<\/p>\n