Farms Along Old Shepherdsville Road
Elizabethtown, Kentucky
(last updated on December 13, 2002)
Old Shepherdsville Road was a dirt road heading north out of Elizabethtown. A new Shepherdsville Road was built in 1936 when the edge of town was just before present day Warfield Street. Farms along this road received electricity in 1939 through RECC.
Robert “Bob” L. Day was born on a farm off of Old Shepherdsville Road in 1929 and has lived next to the road his entire life. The following is a list of farms Bob recalled along Old Shepherdsville Road from town to the Fort Knox Reservation. Each entry indicates whether the farm was to the west or east of the road.
(West) Virgil Buckles farm. Good & Handy Grocery and the Chandler Heights subdivision were built on this farm.
(East) L. R. South & family. Located across from the St. James Catholic Cemetery. They had five boys.
(West) Joe Foote & family. They had two sons (Ennis and Claude) and one daughter (Juanita).
(East) Hull family. Mr. Hull was a mail carrier.
(East) Joe Prayer. Mr. Prayer was a brother to Mrs. Betty Huston.
(West) Charlie Cowley farm. Current location of Hardin Memorial Gardens Cemetery. They had one son (Harold).
(West) Joe Pike & family. Big farm on Pear Orchard and Shepherdsville Road. They had one daughter (Mary who married Elmer Hollis).
(East) John Dink & family. Mr. Dink was a mail carrier. They had two sons (Richard and John, Jr.) and one daughter (Sissy).
(East & West) Birtie Maffett & family. Big farm. Three girls (Virginia, Naomi, and Nancy) and two sons (Ovid and Rodman).
(East) Jim Tipping. A single man, Mr. Tipping was a mail carrier and brother to Mrs. Humphrey and Mrs. Maffett.
(East) Blane Humphrey & family. Mr. Humphrey was a substitute mail carrier. Five girls (Lucille, Eunice, Clara, Elizabeth, and Lois) and three sons (Jim, Fisher, and Tom).
(West) Warren (Bud) Miller & family. Farm had an old log house built in 1861 by Lewis Shouston from Germany. Location for present-day Terrace Hills Subdivision. Mr. Miller was grandfather of Bob Day and had one daughter (Clara Day).
(East) Louis & Adoph Fisher. Both men were single and from Switzerland.
(West) Mary Hagenbough. Sister to the Fisher boys. Barney Day bought this farm at auction sale in 1929. Location for present-day Shepherd Hills Subdivision.
(West) John Goodin family. Location for present-day Ring Road and First Federal Bank. One daughter (Barbara) and two sons (Joe and Brownie).
(East) J. R. Terrel family. Led Edlin & family lived on the farm and ran it.
(East) Walter McMillen farm. Located at Tunnel Hill Road & Shepherdsville Road. Mr. McMillen worked for the L&N Railroad.
(East) J. W. Bush family. One son (Bud) and four daughters (LaVerne, Margaret, Ruth, and Helen).
(West) Billy Huston family. Three girls (Hallie, Lena, and Ethyl) and two sons (Atwood and Ernest).
(East & West) Martin “Bus” Nall. Big farm on both sides of the road. One son (Ed) and one daughter (Irene). Bus worked for the L&N Railroad.
(West) J. B. Pierce. Businessman.
(East) Sam Pfeiffer family. Two sons (George and Jim) and three daughters (Leona, Mary Ella, and Lula Mae).
(East & West) Dave Boyd. Mr. Boyd disappeared in his old age and was never found. One daughter.
(East) Virgil Goodin family. Located at Tunnel Hill Road and Shepherdsville Road.
(West) James Viers family. On Noal Casteel’s old place. Twelve children.
(West) Baxter Rittenberry family. Three sons (Harvey, Bill, and Cecil) and four daughters.
(East) Cora Larkin Store.
(East) Elmer McMillen family. One son (J. T.) and one daughter. Mr. McMillen worked for the L&N Railroad.
(West) J. W. Kennedy family. Two daughters (Nellie and Elizabeth) and one son (Carl).
(West) Cy Williams family. No children. Mr. Williams drove a county grader for many years.
(West) Curtis Miller. A big farm of approximately 600 acres. Four sons (Leonard, Clyde, Ernest, and Clarence).
(West) John & Stella Lutz. Five sons (Carl, Clarence, Roy, James, Don) and five daughters (Minnie, Edith, Catherine, Betty, and Linda).
(West) Campbell Gibbs. No children.
(East) Sanford Irwin family. Three boys (Harlie, Roy, and Stan) and two daughters (Amy and Zola).
(East & West) Clarence Bush family. Big farm. Two daughters (Margie & Reba).
(West) Sam Fox farm. Sambo Bailey lived on the farm. Silas Armstrong bought this farm.
(East) Vernon Viers farm. No children.
(East) Bill Peck family.
(West) Carl Hibbs family.
(East & West) B. F. “Bud” Irwin & family. Big farm. Twin daughters (Ruth & Ruby) and two sons (Virgil & ?).
(East) Albert Wetterer. Two sons (Fred and Charles). Mr. Wetterer had a large grape harbor and was known for wine making.
(East & West) Virgil Masters farm. Two sons (Alton and Ralph) and one daughter (Hazel).
(East) Fred Wetterer family. One son and one daughter.
(East & West) Buck Williams. A big farm and sawmill. Two daughters (Mollie and Mrs. Logsdon) and two sons (Cy and Arch).
(West) Barney Day. Two sons (Faurest and Robert “Bob”) were born here. Sold this farm and bought the Hagenbough farm in 1929. Bluford Bewley bought this farm. Their children were Harold and Mary Agnus.
(East) Amos Garner farm. Mr. Garner ran a store for years on this farm.
(West) Miles McMillen family. Brother-in-law of Amos Garner.
(East) Charles McMillen family. This was the William Alford “Bud” Day and Mary Alice Day farm; they had six sons (Owen, Lon, Shirley, Jesse, Bob, and Barney) and three daughters (Ted, Grace, and Golda).
(West) Elmer “Jeff” Masters family. One son (Gerarld) and two daughters (Wilma Lois and Brenda). This farm borders the Fort Knox Reservation.
(East) Ordie Garner family. One daughter. This farm borders the Fort Knox Reservation.
(West) Emma Cowley family. Next to Fort Knox reservation and new KY 313.