The mission of Farmington Historic Plantation is to present the story of a unique early 19th century Kentucky house, its people and their farm culture, through preservation, exhibitions and education. Once a 550-acre hemp plantation, six miles from Louisville on the Bardstown Pike, Farmington was home to the John Speed family and as many as 70 enslaved people. The 1816 main house gracefully embodies the Federal style of architecture popular on the early Kentucky frontier. Farmington welcomed future president Abraham Lincoln for three weeks in 1841, the only extended time he spent on a plantation sharing the luxurious planter lifestyle. Farmington opened as Louisville’s first historic site museum in 1959 and continues to welcome you to visit and experience the agriculture and people of the early Kentucky Commonwealth.