Samuel D. McCullough Home , Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky

SAMUEL D. MCCULLOUGH HOUSE

W. High St,, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Built Before 1800

Source: Old Houses of Lexington, C. Frank Dunn, typescript, n.d., copy located in the Kentucky Room, Lexington (Kentucky) Public Library.

Samuel D. McCullough, in his "Reminiscences of Lexington," revealed that he was born in this house in 1803. It is now weather-boards over the original log house. Just when the old house was built is unknown.

Lawson McCullough ("tailor, High St."--1806 Directory), who made a gift of the home to his son, Samuel D., October 1, 1829, was deeded the property (In-lot No. 63) by the Town Trustees August 7, 1804, but already was living there. The consideration was $1.00 and "in consequence of James Fulton, of Bourbon Co., together with Adam Rankin, his security, executing an indemnifying bond to the said Trustees in the penal sum of $260, the said James Fulton being the assignee of the said Adam Rankin, who was assignee of Robt. Campbell, of Mason Co., and the person from whom he purchased being at present unknown."

McCullough, in his "Reminiscences," said one of his earliest recollections was of a fire that consumed the hemp factory of David Dodge, across the street, about 1806. The furniture was carried out into the back yard, and his mother wrapped him in the bed-clothes. The intense heat from the huge fire across the street broke the windows of the McCullough house, the roof of which caught fire several times, he said.

As a boy, McCullough played in the shop of Edward West, the famous inventor, and in later years attended West's burial in the rear yard of the West residence.

McCullough was still residing here when he opened his school on Market Street in 1838, and died here in the 1870's.

After Nathan Burrowes' death, McCullough manufactured the famous Burrowes' Mustard in a factory on Vine Street back of his residence. Burrowes, who lived with McCullough, had established the factory here many years before.

Transcribed by pb, April 2006