Interesting History of 'My Old Kentucky Home

The Kentucky state song has been many things since it was first written by Stephen Foster in 1852. It started out as a minstrel song, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” about the lament of a slave sold from his Kentucky plantation to a slave owner down south “where the sugar canes grow.”

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Old Spring House sitting down the hill in front of the mansion. - Picture of My Old Kentucky Home, Bardstown - Tripadvisor

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Federal Hill where Stephen Collins Foster wrote My Old Kentucky Home

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