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Floyd's Station was a fort on Beargrass Creek in what is now
St. Matthews, Kentucky St. Matthews is a city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. It forms part of the Louisville Metro government but is separately incorporated as a home rule-class city. The population was 17,472 at the 2010 census, up from 15,852 at the ...
. In November 1779
James John Floyd Colonel James John Floyd (1750 – 10 April 1783) was an American military officer. An early settler of St. Matthews, Kentucky, he helped lay out Louisville. In Kentucky, he served as a Colonel of the Kentucky Militia in which he participated i ...
built cabins and a
stockade A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls, made of logs placed side by side vertically, with the tops sharpened as a defensive wall. Etymology ''Stockade'' is derived from the French word ''estocade''. The French word was derived f ...
near what is now Breckenridge Lane. In 1783, John Floyd, future Governor of
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was born in the Station. The pioneer's father was killed by Indians twelve days before the birth of his son. The station was one of six on Beargrass Creek and was involved in local conflict with Native Americans in the area for the next five years. All that remain today of Floyd's Station are a spring house and cemetery. Approximate location:


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Image:James John Floyd.jpg, James John Floyd Image:John Floyd (cropped).jpg, John Floyd Image:CHARLESFLOYD.jpg, Charles Floyd Image:FLOYDSTATIONAREA.jpg, 2008 Area Scene


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* Forts in Kentucky Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Kentucky Pre-statehood history of Kentucky St. Matthews, Kentucky 1779 establishments in Virginia {{Louisville-struct-stub