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1920

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A post card of Bryan Station Spring near Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky circa 1920s. It is currently on private property.

Brothers Morgan, James, William, and Joseph Bryan were camping here in 1775-76. It was fortified in 1779 as a station that repelled a siege of indigenous people and Canadians under Capt. William Caldwell and Simon Girty. The memorial was erected on August 15, 1896, by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lexington Chapter.

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