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Grade Levels:

4-12

Length:

20 minutes

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Liberty Hall

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This video by Kentucky filmmaker Nell Cox, who grew up near the site, explores early Kentucky history through the story of the Brown family and their home in Frankfort, now preserved as the Liberty Hall Historic Site. John Brown, Kentucky’s first U.S. senator after statehood, moved to Frankfort and began building the house when the new state capital was still a muddy backwater on America’s western frontier. He and his young wife, Margaretta, raised two sons at Liberty Hall, and their descendants would live there for more than a century.

In addition to a look at what life was like in early Kentucky, the video offers a selection of maps, engravings, and paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as the story of the Liberty Hall ghost, the Gray Lady.