You're invited... to party like it's 1961! Locust Grove is having their 50th Anniversary Party on Sunday, July 24th. Have you been to Locust Grove? It's another Louisville gem. This restored mansion and national landmark was home to William Crogham, brother-in-law to George Rogers Clark, who also spent the last nine years of his life at the residence.
July 24, 1961 the Commonwealth of Kentucky and Jefferson County joined forces to purchase, at auction, Locust Grove’s 55 acres as a public historic site, ensuring that the 1790s Locust Grove farm will not become just another development in Louisville’s East End.
Join the celebration of 50 years of public ownership of Locust Grove with food, drinks, games of the era, and fun. Free admission for all, great food, and the music of 1961. If you like, come dressed up to suit the times!
Louisville’s Mayor Greg Fischer will join the party at 1:30 pm to salute the forward-thinking civic leaders in the public and private sectors with the vision to save Locust Grove fifty years ago.
In addition to a display of images of 1961-era Locust Grove in the museum gallery, local historian Lynn Renau will speak at 2:30 in the Martin F. Schmidt Visitors Center’s Audubon Room about Louisville’s East End in transition in the post-war era, as suburbanization progressed and housing replaced farms.
The celebration will conclude with a 4:30 pm chamber music concert in the Audubon Room in memory of Emilie Strong Smith, who, with her husband Judge Macauley Smith, was a central figure in the purchase of the site and the prime mover behind Locust Grove’s regular winter Chamber Music Series. The concert will be presented by the Kentucky Center Chamber Players and will include works by Bach and Mozart. The concert is free to the public.
Locust Grove is located at 561 Blankenbaker Lane (between Brownsboro Road and River Road) and is a National Historic Landmark best known as the last home of Revolutionary War hero, General George Rogers Clark, founder of the city of Louisville.
For more information about Locust Grove or this event, please call 502-897-9845 or visit www.locustgrove.org
