5 mi. S of Lexington off U.S. 27, Lexington, Kentucky. County/parish: Fayette.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 12, 1971. NRIS 71000342.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century. Bryan's father William had befriended Daniel Boone and they migrated west through the Cumberland Gap.
Joseph Bryan, William's grandson, became an early planter here and established a plantation for tobacco and hemp as commodity crops. He also began to breed thoroughbred race horses. settler and horseman of this region.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123850024