From 1803, 1,000 acres between the banks of Goose Creek and along Lagrange Road. (maybe even my home) Judge Stephen Ormsby called his estate Maghera Glass, Gaelic for “green grass.” Mansion built 1830s. In 1896, it became the Kentucky Military Institute, military boys’ school. In 1973, Ten Broeck Hospital took over the plantation (they call it their KMI location).
I just learned that writer Washington Irving dined here.
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