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Waveland
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Waveland State Historic Site is located in Kentucky
Waveland State Historic Site
Waveland State Historic Site is located in the United States
Waveland State Historic Site
Nearest cityLexington, Kentucky
Coordinates37°58′17″N 84°32′14″W / 37.97139°N 84.53722°W / 37.97139; -84.53722
Built1845
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.71000342[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 12, 1971

Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century. Bryan's father William had befriended Daniel Boone and they migrated west through the Cumberland Gap.

Joseph Bryan, William's grandson, became an early planter here and established a plantation for tobacco and hemp as commodity crops. He also began to breed thoroughbred race horses. settler and horseman of this region.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

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