Art History

In late August of 1865, Mary Yoder Brown (granddaughter of John & Margaretta Brown) married Union Colonel William T. Scott, and one of the gifts they received was fine silver service set.

By Julie Payne

Sunday Night at Chickamauga, attributed to Samuel Woodson Price, oil on canvas, ca. 1870, Liberty Hall Historic Site Collections.

By Beth Caffery Carter

Robert Burns Wilson from The Magazine of Poetry A Quarterly Review, vol. 2, no. 4 (1890) and Blossoming Trees by Robert Burns Wilson, 1880-1890, Liberty Hall Historic Collections.

By Tommy Hines, Executive Director, South Union Shaker Village

Pantry boxes, Liberty Hall Historic Site Collections

By Sharon Cox

By Julie Payne

Sunday Night at Chickamauga, attributed to Samuel Woodson Price, oil on canvas, ca. 1870, Liberty Hall Historic Site Collections.

By Mack Cox

By Kate Hesseldenz, Curator

Liberty Hall Historic Site owns eight Paul Sawyier paintings.  Six of these were likely collected by Brown family members.  Though not born in Frankfort, Paul Sawyier (1865-1917) and his family moved to the capital city in 1870.