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This large brick Federal Style house was built by Nathaniel Owens around, or before, the year 1800. He was one of Green County KY's wealthiest planters and a large slave owner. His daughter, Mary, refused Abraham Lincoln's proposal of marriage. Owens died in the 1840s and his son, John Y. Owens, got the house, known as Lashfield, and 450 acres around it. He, in 1851, sold the 450 acres and "mansion house" to my GGGgrandfather, Richard Skaggs (1801-1891). Richard moved his family there from Taylor County in 1852 and remained there until early 1856 when he came back to Taylor County. He sold off portions of the farm to James A. Howell and Lewis B. Skaggs while living there. The house and remaining 389 acres was sold to Rev. Hezekiah C. Warren around 1856. By the 1890s the house and land had passed to the hands of the Alexander Milby family. Unfortunately, this old home was torn down in the 1960s. It has been said that it was the largest home in antebellum Green and Taylor County. This photograph was taken by a member of the Warren family before the house was torn down.
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