Edward Stone was originally from the Virginia Piedmont region and migrated to Bourbon County with three older brothers in the early 1800s.

)[5]According to Kentucky historian J. Winston Coleman, the Grange was a "fine example of Georgian architecture," and the basement dungeon consisted of "five or six strongly barred cells" for holding enslaved people prior to transport.

Within is Egyptian darkness, save for the faintest ray of light which filters thru a small barred aperture leading somewhere under the other part of the building.

"[7] Stone also originally owned and likely built the neighboring Thomas Champ house, also known as Sulphur Spring.

Stone" of Flat Run, Bourbon County placed an ad in the local paper warning locals against "hunting, fowling, pulling down any of my plantation or woods pasture fencing, riding through, or in any manner, trespassing upon my plantation, as I am determined to prosecute, all who do it without liberty.

[15] Stone was said to be one of the co-owners, with his partner at the time, Benjamin Keiningham, of the Paris, Kentucky slave coffle of summer 1822.

[16][17] In 1823, Stone listed for lease or sale the Indian Queen Hotel in Paris, Kentucky, preferring either "Land or Negroes" as the form of payment.

According to the African Americans of the Kentucky Borderlands database, Stone "placed a reward ad for the return of 22-yr-old Rowsley Peyton.

Stone claimed that Peyton and his brother (unnamed) escaped on the night of August 22, stopping to steal horses and goods on their way.

They were owned by Howard and Edward Stone of Bourbon, who with David Cobb of Lexington, and a man named James Gray were conveying them to the Mississippi country for sale.

The gang of slaves consisted of 75 in number, males and females, and of various ages; 56 of them have been lodged in the jail of Breckinridge county at Hardinsburgh.

For his valor he was liberated, given a small tract of land with a cabin, where he passed the remainder of his days in sight of his master's old home.

At The Grange outside of Millersburg, Kentucky, for example, Edward Stone built a triple-pen house to serve as the quarter for his domestic slaves; it is a double-pen cabin plus an additional room.