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July 4 ceremony to honor Samuel Blankenbaker
THE COURIER-JOURNAL • JUNE 24, 2008
Samuel Blankenbaker, the man known for allowing an extension to be built on his property that connected Jeffersontown and Middletown, will be honored in a graveside ceremony on Independence Day.
The ceremony will start at 11:30 a.m. July 4 next to Blankenbaker Pond, which is off Bluegrass Parkway between Campus Place and Papa John’s Boulevard.
The event is sponsored by the Greater Jeffersontown Historical Society and the John Marshall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Blankenbaker, who served in the Revolutionary War and died in 1827, was granted 390 acres of land in Jefferson County in 1792.
In 1797, when Middletown and Jeffersontown were incorporated as cities, a local court ordered Blankenbaker, who lived between the two cities, to find an agreeable route for a road to connect them.
Blankenbaker Road, which smoothed transportation between the two cities, was extended from Jeffersontown’s Ruckriegel Parkway in 1997. In 1999, the road now known as Blankenbaker Parkway was extended to Shelbyville Road in Middletown.
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