Cloverport Country House

R. N. Hudson with dog and train in background.
Cloverport house, April 29, 1928

The Cloverport house was built between 1915 and 1923.  It was situated above a bend overlooking the Ohio River near Cloverport but located in Hancock County.  Virginia spent the summer of 1922 there and taught Sunday School. She regularly went to Cloverport to open the house in the spring and to close up the house after the hunting season. R. N. Hudson’s 1936 diary includes several autumn entries about traveling from Louisville to Cloverport for the weekend with William Jackson.  Jackson worked for the family for 35 years and for the railroad.  Virginia describes William with great affection in one of her letters published in Flapdoodle, Trust & Obey.

R. N. Hudson builds home
R. N. Hudson built airfield near Cloverport home
William Jackson and Bond, August 1923
Virginia (right), Ann (center) and another girl, August 1923
William, the Ida Red and the dogs, Bond & Billy
Sally with Ann (left) and Virginia (right)
Virginia and Ann with puppy
Virginia and Ann with puppy near house, August 1925


Virginia holding puppy with Ann, August 1925

Virginia and Ann, August 1925

May be an image of text that says 'The Conjured Chest A CURSED FAMILY IN OLD KENTUCKY'
Photo courtesy of Cloverport Museum

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Harvard Professor Retired, Medievalist, Women’s Historian