Brunch & Learn with Stephen Brown

The Jack Jouett House Historic Site, operated by Woodford County Fiscal Court in cooperation with the Woodford County Heritage Committee, is the Kentucky home of Revolutionary War hero Captain John "Jack" Jouett (1754 - 1822). Known as "The Paul Revere of the South" for his late night ride to warn Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson and Virginia legislators of a British force sent to capture them, Jouett moved to Kentucky in 1783.  He was an important agriculturist, horse and cattle breeder, distiller, and politician. He built a one-and-a-half story brick Federal home in Woodford County, where he and his wife Sallie Robards Jouett raised 11 children. His son, Matthew Harris Jouett, became one of Kentucky's most famous portrait artists in the first quarter of the 19th century.