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The Confederate Home
This Pewee Valley home for
Confederate veterans did not really play role in the Little
Colonel stories, but was mentioned as something that could be
seen nearby. For example, in the Little Colonel at Boarding
School, Chapter 5, it was
described as "the big inn that the year before had been turned into a home for
Confederate soldiers."
Originally the Villa Ridge Inn, it
served for a short time as the successor to the Kentucky
College for Young Ladies (model for Lloydsboro Seminary) before being
purchased by the state for a home for Confederate veterans in 1902. Fannie
Craig (Miss Allison of the stories) also had her school here for awhile before
moving it to a building behind Edgewood.
A fire eventually destroyed the main part of the Villa Ridge Inn/Confederate
Home and the rest has since been razed.
The Confederate Home was
located on the land just adjacent to the old Presbyterian Church.
View
before 1909
The only vestiges of the Confederate Home remaining in Pewee
Valley include the original sign at the front gate (shown in the
1936 Herald-Post photo below), now at the entrance to the
Confederate portion of the
Pewee Valley
Cemetery, and the remnants of the old walkway that led from
the home to the railroad tracks, marked by a small sign placed
there by the 21st Century Confederate Legion. A reservoir that
once supplied the home with fresh water was filled in during the
1990s, but is visible on this
topographic map from 1993. Thanks to Eric Henderson, former
Pewee resident and L&N model railroader, for that tip.
For a more thorough history of
the Confederate Home, visit the John Hunt Morgan website
http://johnhuntmorgan.scv.org/confhome.htm.
A
goateed patient at the gate of the Kentucky Confederate Home,
1936,
from the Herald-Post
photographs collection, ca. 1920-1936
klgsc:klgsculrsc021:94.18.0358.
Click
here for views of all that is left of the Confederate
Home today
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