3033 Bardstown Rd., Louisville, Kentucky. County/parish: Jefferson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 18, 1972. NRIS 72000536.
1 contributing building.
Farmington, an 18-acre (7.3 ha) historic site in Louisville, Kentucky, was once the center of a hemp plantation owned by John and Lucy Speed. The 14-room, Federal-style brick plantation house was possibly based on a design by Thomas Jefferson and has several Jeffersonian architectural features. As many as 64 African Americans were enslaved by the Speed family at Farmington.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123850539