Newspaper Articles
Foremans of Pigeon Creek
Ralls Centennial Farm - 1819
from Ralls County Electric Co-op News
Any mail from Pigeon Creek lately? The original Foreman farm had the
stage coach stop and post office in the home in the early 1800's. Mail
was dispatched from a room in the William Foreman home and travelers of
the stage coach were put-up for the night at the farm home. In later
years students from the academy at Rensselaer were boarded in an
addition building from the home by the family.
When the railroad was built and Rensselaer became a railroad center and
Candidate and Wife Killed in Auto Crash
Allan Cole, Sangamon County Sheriff, Running for Illinois State Representative,
in Wreck Near Jacksonville.
One Worked on Paper Here
Mary Jo Cheek Tells of U.N. Trip
Miss Mary Jo Cheek of Desloge was principal speaker at the Wesleyan Service
Serious Wreck Near Gumbo Sat. Night
Three cars featured in a wreck Sunday night about 10 o'clock that resulted in
the death of one woman and serious injury to three others.
A Chevrolet sedan, driven by Walter Poston of Leadwood, was headed toward
Leadwood and had just gone over the top of Gumbo hill and a Ford coupe was
coming up the hill toward them, when a Chevrolet coach, driven my Mr. Henry
Chittenden, attempted to pass the Ford. The Chittenden car read head on into
the Potson car.
The Chevrolet sedan, driven by Walter Poston of Leadwood, contained besides the
Tues., Oct. 9, 1945
Flames Devour Beautiful Muldrow House,
Famed For Its Century-Old Architecture
[two pictures of Muldrow house]
picture caption: Pictured above is Muldrow House, one of the finest
examples of cottage architecture in America, revealing the early
Georgian-Federal type. A dog-trot connected the kitchen with the
main structure. At left is shown the portico with delicate columns
and connecting arches and fan-lights above the door.
VERSAILLES, Ky., Oct. 9 (Special) - Fire of unknown origin late Monday
Fire Destroys Famous House In Woodford
(in pencil): 1945
VERSAILLES, Ky., Oct. 8 (Special) - The famous Muldrow place, home of Mr.s
and Mrs. Earl Clough, six miles from Versailles on the Shryock's Ferry pike,
was destroyed by fire at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon.
Only the walls of the two-story brick building were left standing. No one
was at home when the fire broke out and its origin was not known.
The house, which was designed by Gideon Shryock, famous architect, was built
in 1817. Its walls were two feet thick and its floors were of ash
October 5, 1942
[the width of the newspaper page is a drawing of the house]
Andrew Muldrow Home, near Versailles, Ky.
Graceful arches and slender columns lend distinction to this red brick
Georgian residence, six miles from Versailles on a hillside overlooking
Grier's Creek valley. It was built by Colonel Andrew Muldrow, Scotch
native who served in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1822
and in the State Senate in 1824-29. Construction was begun in 1804,
completed in 1817.
Frosted glass imported from France was used in the sidelights and in
The Woodford Sun Thursday, May 19, 1949
Some Old Woodford County Homes
[description of The Dupuy House]
The Muldrow House
The last of the early homes to be discussed will be that of Colonel
Andrew Muldrow, built about 1817, on Grier's Creek, one mile from
Sublett's Ferry where it empties into the Kentucky River.
Colonel Muldrow was a legislator and state senator, trustee of Grier's
[ text missing] Church, built in 1817, and a busy man of affairs, with
his large body of lands and mills on the creek.
Muldrow's Marion City Was Mississippi Bubble
By Mrs. Oliver Howard
Staff Correspondent
[The Courier-Post, Hannibal, Mo., August 23, 1954
William Muldrow, who came to Missouri early in the 19th century, has been
called many things by [careless?] historians - visionary, [], swindler -
even worse. Those who malign him have overlooked some of the lasting good
he did in this section of the United States. He was a first-class promoter,
not at all unusual in any [] or on any frontier. His prototype probably
sold apple orchard leases in the Garden of Eden.
... would quickly increase in value to a par with expensive land in the East.
They did not realize that there was so much land in the West, and that the
endless frontier of cheap land would keep land prices in the West down for many
years.
The year 1836 brought a horde of newcomers to Marion City. Muldrow had
convinced many of his customers to move out to the new city and help develop
it. Tradesman, artisans, professional men, and even some very wealthy "men of
leisure" arrived in the steamboats coming into the new metropolis.