Perry Park, Kentucky

Perry Park is an unincorporated community, country club and golf resort in Owen County, Kentucky, between Owenton and Carrollton.

The land that is now Perry Park was originally used as hunting grounds by Native Americans, particularly the Iroquois and Shawnee as well as the Cherokee and Miamis.

Artifacts of these tribes can be found throughout the area, particularly in farmers tilled fields and creek beds and river banks.

[citation needed] Kentucky became a state in 1792, and more settlers came in, including a former soldier of the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Perry, who fought in the Battle of Cowpens.

[citation needed] He, his children and grandchildren moved to Perry Park from Virginia circa 1810, along with the Berryman family.

Also a tobacco plantation, it was built by Thomas A. Berryman, and was named after his wife Lucy's birthplace, Inverness, Scotland.

[citation needed] By the time of the American Civil War, Washington, being a slave holder, most likely supported the Confederacy, yet it is unknown for certain which side he chose.

[citation needed] Washington Perry died in 1875, Martha in 1893 and are buried at Port Royal Cemetery in Henry County, Kentucky.

[citation needed] While this may be rumor, the Cleveland campaign of 1884 did attack James G. Blaine with stories of wrongdoings to a young woman at Perry Park.

[citation needed] In 1933, John H. Perry, who was publisher of a number of newspapers [2] (including The Palm Beach Post) and another of Washington's grandchildren, bought the entire area, built a post office, and named the community Perry Park, after the family name.

[citation needed] In 1966, Lingenfelter Investments bought the property and developed the land to include a golf course and other amenities.

Later, the property was purchased by Mutual of Omaha as an investment but was resold in the late 1970s to a private equity firm from Louisville in hopes of turning the Golf Resort around.

Birds such as Cardinals, Orioles, Bluebirds, Tanagers, Chickadees, Titmouse, Nuthatches, Swallows, Sparrows, Jays, Hawks, Kestrels, all varieties of Owls, all varieties of Woodpeckers including the large and loud Pileated Woodpecker are frequently seen in the area and the surrounding forests.