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Show Place of Kentucky. There had never been
another house in Kentucky that drew as much attention as the place called "Chaumiere
Des Prairies". On these grounds walked some of the most noted people of
early America. Arron Burr visited this house offen. He was held under house
arrest here. This house was visited by Gen. Andrew Jackson, President James
Monroe, James Madison, President Zachary Taylor, Henry Clay and the list
goes on.. When Gen. Marquis de Lafayette made his visit to Kentucky in
1825, he stayed here. This was the home of David Meade and his wife Sarah
Waters Meade. They came to Jessamine in the summer of 1796, and lived to
celebrate their sixtieth anniversar y in this house. Sarah Meade died in
1828, and David Meade in 1832. Both are buried in a small family plot,
a short distance from the house. |
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