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 Locust
Grove also was home to numerous enslaved African laborers
between 1790 and their emancipation in 1849. Slave numbers
varied throughout the Croghans' tenure here. County
records from 1800 indicate that William Croghan paid
taxes on twenty slaves and two white male servants.
In 1849, John Croghan's will listed twenty-two enslaved
Africans ranging from infancy to age fifty-five. These
individuals were freed under terms of a seven-year guardianship
which provided for their liberty by 1856.
Two men associated with Locust Grove made
important contributions to U.S. history:
- York,
a slave owned by William Clark, was a member of the
Corps of Discovery, traveling with the expedition
to the Pacific Ocean. York was the first person of
color the western Native Americans ever had encountered.
- Stephen Bishop
was a slave at Mammoth Cave during John Croghan's
ownership of the property. As a guide he explored
previously uncharted areas of the world's most extensive
cave system and drew the famous Mammoth Cave map of
1844.
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