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4170 Butchertown Road, Parksville, KY

 
 We have provided links to detailed maps on how to get to the farm.

Detailed Maps   |  Hand Written Directions

Directions  from points north via Danville and Junction City should follow the detailed maps link.  The mapquest instructions fail to mention that you reach HWY 37 by turning right on HWY 300 and left onto 37 just past the railroad tracks.  The link to the handwritten version gives an alternate route to 37.  Either will work.  Accurate directions from Liberty are given here.

 

 

  • Jordan Rousey purchased part of the farm in 1860.
  •  Patrick Camden "Cam" Rousey purchased the farm after Jordans death in 1864.  In 1875 and 1877 Cam added 1500 acres and 1150 acres for a total of 2754 acres.
  • After Cam's death in 1881, part of the farm was sold in 1882, 1883, 1899 & 1900 to settle Cam's estate. 
  • His son William Riley Rousey purchased part of the farm and added 68 acres of the Durham Hollow from M.E. Durham.
  • After William Riley's death in March 1953, his son Lloyd Carl & Tina Rousey purchased the farm on June 31, 1953.
  • Lloyd & Tina sold 1/2 interest to his son Robert & June Rousey on May 21, 1955.  Later, he sold the other half to Robert also.

 

Submitted by Patrick Allen Rousey

 

Since the death of Robert in 2001, the farm is in a trust operated by his family.

 

 

Directions to farm via Hustonville

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 From north, take 127 south to Highway 78.  Turn west (right) at the gas station/convenience store.

 

From Liberty (south), take 127 north to Hustonville.

 

Turn left going west on HWY 78 at  the gas station/convenience store.

 

Once on Highway 78 West

 

 Go 0.8 miles.

 

Turn right just before a bridge, onto Black Pike.  Go 0.5 miles on Black Pike to Maxey Valley Road.

 

Turn left on Maxey Valley Road and go 0.7 miles.

 

 Turn right on Carter School Road and go 1.4 miles to Butchertown Road.

 

Turn left on Butchertown Road and go 4.3 miles (road goes up a hill and curves around it to the Butchertown  and is narrow in places).  Stay on the paved road.

 

 Turn right up the hill to the Rousey Homeplace just before a bridge.  There are fieldstone posts at the entrance.

 

 



 

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The Rousey's Old Homeplace .  Butchertown, Kentucky