Our Trip to Jessamine Co. Kentucky
Camping on Crème Ridge

Well let me elaborate on the great place Tom has out on Cream Ridge. In 1999 I had come to Jessamine Co.done some genealogy and enjoyed traveling all around where my folks traveled when they lived here almost 100 years ago now. 6 months later my husband wanted to come with me and we were headed to see family over in Indiana also. We decided to pull our 26 ft. trailer. When we crossed over into Ky. (coming from Dallas) I started looking for a place we could camp really close to where we would be doing genealogy there around Nicholasville. There was a three line listing a place to camp with only a few hook ups but it was out on 1268 south of Nicholasville. We called and sure enough they could accommodate us. I was excited, shoot I'd been out 1268 and surely it couldn't be far off 27 and it would be perfect. Well guys we got to the turn off, turning to the left onto 1268 and we had the address. Gee it looked like it might be a little ways as I compared house numbers.
We kept going and I was getting worried. I knew that road turned into quite a twisting and turning little more than a one laner not too far ahead. Well we kept going and when we came to the cross roads at the bottom of the hill on Sugar Creek and my husband started across the bridge and started around the corner where the old store is still standing I about came unglued. I knew what was ahead and there was no way that we could turn a trailer of that length around if we went any further. There was a car behind us and my husband motioned him ahead and stopped him and they talked said yes the riding stable was just up the road a piece and to follow him and when he turned off it would be another 1/4 mile. Well we followed him and my husbands eyes got bigger and bigger as he saw the drop offs on the sides of the road and how the road had even shrunk more in size. We sure hoped we wouldn't be faced with another car coming towards us cause we took up 3/4 of the width of the road. Well you guys we made it. We ended up out on this ridge that jutted out and I believe 1200 feet above the Kentucky River. Tom had a great place for us to camp, they thinking we were bringing a horse trailer. We camped for 5 days on their beautiful horse farm. We did genealogy during the day and hiked down to the Kentucky River early evenings to get the kinks out. The old toll road that goes down to the river is lined with rock fences and you can feel the history there. I had family that lived in Sulphur Well and Little Hickman, I also had family that lived on Sugar Creek in Garrard and would imagine they crossed on the old ferry and came right up that toll road to visit family and also make their way to Nicholasville to shop. Tom was doing some great clearing and making horse trails when we were there. Tom was very gracious about letting us just roam the land and just enjoy its beauty while we camped. The old log cabin, I'm excited to hear he is working on it. He has so much history there on his land. And dark, oh it got dark at night and you could hear the bugs and it was like being in the country again when I was a little girl. Anybody want to take horse riding classes or just go for a ride that's the place to call. Not only will you get to enjoy riding a great animal but you will see first hand where some of the great Kentucky history took place. And the soldiers crossed the river down below on the ferry boat and came up the old toll road and then there was another road down by the edge of the river that followed the river around and would take the wagons and supplies over to Camp Nelson. These are some really good memories we made and I hope you write down the things that mean something to you, I can go back and read this over and over and have the same feelings as I did the first time. I've grown to love Jessamine Co. and the folks there.

Clyde thanks for having me reprint this. It was good to read it again.

And yes, we are headed there in August and will contact Tom. I hear he was at the 4th celebration and had some beautiful horses there pulling a wagon taking folks for a ride. He's a good guy.

Anna Ash in Dallas