This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
The Old Kentucky Home of Garden City Pioneer Story
The Old Kentucky Home near Garden City began with Carl ie Wilson in 1885 as a tavern and midway stop for freighters between Garden City and Scott City. It later passed to Porter D Terry and Dr Labon H Johnson, a New York physician who built an expanded ranch with early air cooling and hosted many visitors before Johnson’s 1913 death. The property changed hands several times, leaving only a painting in the Finney County Historical Museum.
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Carlie Wilson
Garden City
Kentucky
Scott City
Wilson
Garden
Old Kentucky
Scott County
Porter D. Terry
Terry
Enterprise
Yankeedom
Old Kentucky Home
Labon H. Johnson
Johnson
New York
Kansas
Alice Stringfield Johnson
Finney County
Alice
United States
Johnsons
Lois Stringfield Harman
Dr. Johnson
Arlington Cemetery
Washington, D.C
Elaine Harman
Finney County Historical Museum