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Newdigate-Reed House

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The Newdigate-Reed House is a two-story log house built by the Newdigate family at the top of the hill near the Lexington-Maysville Turnpike. John Newdigate, a farmer, is listed as the landowner in 1854.Clift, G. Glenn. History of Maysville and Mason County, Vol. I. Lexington: Transylvania Printing Co., 1936, pp. 207, 225, 214, 255. Situated at the top of a steep hill leading out of Maysville, the house served as a convenient rest stop for merchants and wagon masters hauling goods from the docks at Maysville to points south. Read more on Wikipedia

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