Talk:Young House (Nicholasville, Kentucky)

Factual Accuracy of NRHP Nomination Form Disputed within Text of Namespace Article
''The following text was in the article space from this edit by but I'm moving it here for discussion. No opinion on these claims, just doing article cleanup. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:11, 12 November 2022 (UTC)''

"The reference to Nicholasville, Kentucky in the title of this page is incorrect. ...

However, the reference given here does not substantiate this last claim. Apparently, the National Register information submitted in 1984 by Glenn Dorroh, a previous owner, correctly identifies this as the house of Dr. Brown Young (1823-1893), a fact confirmed by Jessamine county maps from 1861 and 1877 which identify the house as belonging to "Dr. B. Young." But Dorroh's file goes on to claim: "Brown Young's father John was a Revolutionary War soldier and his son was the historian Col. Bennett H. Young." Both of these claims are false.

Bennett H. Young himself would say so as he wrote A History of Jessamine County KY (1898), which he dedicated to his father. Bennett Young identifies his father as Robert Young, whom he describes as a native of Fayette County, KY, who set up shop as a hatter (hat maker) in Nicholasville, KY (Jessamine County) from 1825 to 1848. In 1848 Robert sold the store and bought a farm. The Jessamine County Atlas of 1877 shows that the farm of R. Young was located on Kentucky Route 29 just west of what is now the Nicholasville by-pass. The home no longer stands and is the site of a subdivision, but its location is included on C. N. Bunch's map of Jessamine County Historical Homes (2003). Since Bennett would have been 6 years old by the time his father bought the farm, he clearly was not born there either; he probably was born in the town of Nicholasville in the home adjacent to his father's hat shop.

... (not actually on Route 29 but off it on the Lexington Road to Wilmore, KY, far further to the southwest)

... But if this date is correct, then it could not have been built by Brown Young himself, as he was born in 1823. The National Register only claims this home was built in the mid-19th century.