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}} My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky. The park's centerpiece is Federal Hill, a farm owned by United States Senator John Rowan in 1795. During the Rowan family's occupation, the mansion became a meeting place for local politicians and hosted several visiting dignitaries. The farm is best known for its association with American composer Stephen Foster's anti-slavery〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=My Old Kentucky Home: A Song with a Checkered Past )〕 ballad "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night". Foster was a cousin of the Rowan family, and was likely inspired to write the ballad both by Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and through imagery seen on visits to Federal Hill. After popularity of the song increased throughout the United States, Federal Hill was purchased by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, dedicated as an historic site, and renamed "My Old Kentucky Home" on July 4, 1923. Foster's song by the same name was made the state song of Kentucky in 1928. The Federal Hill mansion was featured on a U.S. postage stamp in 1992, and it is one of the symbols featured on the reverse of the Kentucky state quarter issued in 2001. ==Federal Hill== Federal Hill, commonly known as "My Old Kentucky Home", is an historic mansion that was planned and commissioned by Judge John Rowan and his wife Ann Lytle. The mansion's original surrounding 1,200 acres were also known as "Federal Hill." The rear portion of the mansion was constructed in 1795, additional space from 1799–1802, and was completed in the form of a five-bay, three-story mansion from 1808 to 1818, using slave labor. With Rowan in residence, Federal Hill was a local power center in the realms of legal, political, and social events. Prominent visitors to the home included Marquis de Lafayette, Stephen Foster, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay. Judge Rowan occupied a Louisville residence during the majority of his later years and was rarely in residence at Federal Hill near the end of his life. In 1839, the house suffered fire damage to the third story and roof. Carpenter Alexander Moore was hired to repair the damage, as he had worked on the design elements and woodwork in 1818. John Rowan, Jr. occupied Federal Hill after the death of his father. When John, Jr. died in 1855, his widow, Rebecca Carnes Rowan, occupied Federal Hill until 1897. The house then passed to their daughter, Madge (Rowan) Frost.〔Kleber, p. 712.〕 The imagery of Federal Hill and Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are cited as the inspiration for Stephen Foster's anti-slavery ballad known as "My Old Kentucky Home." According to Morrison Foster, Stephen Foster's brother, Stephen was an occasional visitor to Federal Hill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=My Old Kentucky Home State Park » The History of My Old Kentucky Home )〕 Stephen's sister Charlotte also visited Federal Hill and courted Atkinson Hill Rowan who unsuccessfully proposed to Charlotte.http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/peopleevents/p_cfoster.html In 1922, the "My Old Kentucky Home Commission" purchased Federal Hill from Madge Rowan, the last heir of Federal Hill farm. The Commission renovated the property and gave the farm to the Commonwealth of Kentucky for use as a state park, with the official dedication on July 4, 1923. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Old Kentucky Home State Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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