Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing
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Farnsley–Moremen Landing
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Farnsley–Moremen house
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| Nearest city | Louisville, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 38°5′52″N 85°53′51″W / 38.09778°N 85.89750°WCoordinates: 38°5′52″N 85°53′51″W / 38.09778°N 85.89750°W |
| Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
| Built | c. 1838 |
| NRHP Reference # | 79003117 |
| Added to NRHP | April 20, 1979 |
Riverside, The Farnsley–Moremen Landing is a historic 300-acre (120 ha) farm and house in south end Louisville, Kentucky, along the banks of the Ohio River. The house, a red brick I-house with a two-story Greek Revival portico, was built c. 1838 by Gabriel Farnsley.
Farnsley died in 1849 without a will, and after a dozen years of legal wrangling over his estate, the ownership of the house transferred to the Moremen family in 1862. Alanson and Rachel Stith Moremen increased the size of the farm to 1,500 acres (610 ha), making it into one of the largest farms in Jefferson County before it was divided up amongst heirs in the 1880s.
From around 1820 to 1890, the property served as a river transportation hub. A riverboat landing on the property allowed people traveling by river to stop to trade goods, pick up boiler wood for fuel, or rest. The Moremen family nicknamed the landing "Soap Landing", as they sold lye soap and other household and agricultural products there. In addition, a ferry carried people and goods back and forth between the landing and Indiana.
Like many other structures along the Ohio River, the house was damaged by the Ohio River flood of 1937. The house was left unrepaired for decades.
The Moremen family held on to the property until 1988, when they sold it to Jefferson County Fiscal Court for purposes of restoration and preservation. On October 10, 1993, the restored house was debuted to the public.
A visitors center situated on the property houses an auditorium, museum exhibits and a store.
Native American hunters and gathers lived in the Ohio Valley as early as 10,000 B.C. Some of these people may have camped or hunted near what is today Riverside. About 6,000 B.C., groups of hunters and gathers established base camps. They began to take advantage of the abundant resources of the river valley such as mussels, fish, plants and larger animals in the area.
Around 1,000 to 500 A.D., these prehistoric Native American groups had become more sedentary and began to establish longer term camps. They began some agriculture in the area as a result of relying more heavily on cultivated plants and maize, in particular. This period was the introduction of pottery, the bow and arrow and larger emphasis on ritual activities.
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