Located at Harrod’s Creek, this was the only institution in Kentucky
founded for Union Civil War veterans. It was proposed by the J. T. Boyle Post No. 109 of the Grand Army of the Republic. Chartered in 1890, it opened July
1891. It was established as a home for aged and infirm Union veterans not able to support themselves.
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Former Union Gen. Speed S. Fry became the first superintendent
and directed the home until his death in 1892. Then, Catherine E. Hirst of the Ladies’ Aid Society oversaw operations until it closed several years later. In the few years of its existence, it was home to thirty-five veterans, five
of whom died at the Home.