Years ago we visited Locust Grove, an historic house museum in Louisville, Kentucky. Locust Grove was the last home of George Rogers Clark. The house sits on a hill above the Ohio River placed in a grove of locust and other trees. When we had a chance to build a house twelve years ago, we decided to reproduce, at least on the outside, Kentucky's Locust Grove. We were lucky to have a good builder who took our photos of the origianal Locust Grove and reproduced it with most all the details. We were able to build the house in a locust grove, so it was just natual that we would name our farm Locust Grove Farm.
When we began building we had just 8 acres of land and lots of trees. Twelve years later we have a house, two barns, a chicken house and miles of high tensil woven wire fence! We've lost many of the big trees to high winds the last few years and have been busy replacing them, but the lot is still nicely wooded. The picture was taken in mid September 2010 and is a nice reminder to me that spring is on the way.
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