My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States. The park's centerpiece is Federal Hill, a former plantation home owned by United States Senator John Rowa
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Stephen Collins Foster, known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. Foster wrote more than 200 songs, i
My Old Kentucky Home State Park
…became a meeting place for local politicians and hosted several visiting dignitaries. The farm is best known for its association with American composer Stephen Foster's sentimental ballad "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night". Foster was a cousin of the Rowan family and reputedly an occasional visitor to Federal Hill…
Foster c. 1860
Foster's parents, Eliza Tomlinson Foster and William Barclay Foster
House in Hoboken, New Jersey, where Foster is believed to have written "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" in 1854
A Pittsburgh Press illustration of the original headstone on Stephen Foster's grave