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Fairfield Farm Cottage

The Fairfield Farm Cottage is a beautiful stone guest cottage B&B at the site of Martin's Station, n

04/29/2024

Fairfield Farm has nearly a mile of Stoner Creek frontage to be enjoyed by our guests. You can walk along the creek, fish 🎣 , or bring your canoe 🛶 or kayak!

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04/09/2024

The redbuds are in bloom! Book your stay at our bluegrass country house during Keeneland’s spring meet 🐎🏇

01/16/2024

Our eagle 🦅, James Madison, was checking out the farm pond this morning! Sometimes you can see Dolly flying around with him.

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12/03/2023

One of the best places to spend a cozy winter weekend is in the stone guest wing of a Bluegrass country house!

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10/21/2023

•The last outdoor breakfast of the season •🍂🍁🍃

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09/29/2023

The harvest moon last night was spectacular, as it was this morning!
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09/01/2023

One of the best places to spend a weekend in Kentucky, is at a Bluegrass country house!
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08/25/2023

Alanant-o-Wamiowee was the Indian name for the great bluegrass path of the 🦬 buffalo. It extended from Mason County through Martin’s Station where it crossed Stoner Creek to the vicinity of Bryan Station near Lexington. Fairfield’s farm road is one of the remaining recognizable vestiges of this aboriginal trail.
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08/07/2023

Tom and George with their adopted momma, Molly.
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08/01/2023

is at the former site of Martin’s Station that was settled in 1779. It was on the old which the Indians called “Alant-o-wamiowee.” The British and Indians destroyed the station in 1780. This was also the next to the last battle of the Revolutionary War. The only vestige of Martin’s Station is its stone lined spring.

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07/24/2023

Tom and George love company and carrots, and not necessarily in that order 💓🥕🥕!! These sweet boys came to us from the wonderful Haven 12:10 Animal Sanctuary in White Plains, Kentucky. Paris-Bourbon County Tourism Commission Cynthiana Tourism Paris Is For Horse Lovers

07/19/2023

The sunflowers are in full bloom 🌻and we’re looking forward to our September dove shoots and photo opportunities. Private message if you’d like to schedule pictures with your photographer!

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Address

500 Cynthiana Road
Paris, KY
40361

Telephone

+18597075575

Website

http://www.fairfieldfarmcottage.com/

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Centuries of History at Fairfield

We are blessed to enjoy a beautiful and unspoiled patch of Bourbon County history. The Fairfield Farm Cottage offers the chance to immerse yourself in that history, surrounded by nature and modern amenities.

Our stone cottage sits along the Buffalo Trail, named Alanant-o-Wamiowee by the Shawnee, created by bison centuries before the arrival of Indians. It is the site of Martin’s Station, which began in 1775 with a cabin built by the intrepid explorer John Martin. Martin’s Station was the site of the next-to-last battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1780.

Three years later, James Garrard arrived in Kentucky and settled along Stoner Creek at this site he named “Fairfield”. Sometime between 1783 and 1785, he built the stone house at which was held, in 1785, the very first court meeting of the newly created Bourbon County, Virginia. He moved his family to the newly constructed Mount Lebanon, on the other side of the creek in 1786.

Kentucky became a state in 1792. In 1796, James Garrard was elected its second governor, and served until 1804. While his father was occupied with the business of building a new state, James Garrard, Jr. took over the agricultural responsibilities of Mount Lebanon and Fairfield and lived in the original stone house until his death in 1838.

Our great-grandfather Col. Ezekiel F. Clay bought Fairfield in 1867 when he returned to Bourbon County after the Civil War. He set about breeding prized cattle and racehorses. He named his farm Runnymede and partnered with his brother-in-law, Col. Catesby Woodford of Raceland Farm, to breed champion racehorses.

In 1924, our grandmother and her brother inherited Runnymede. They split the farm, and she received the original Fairfield acreage. The Fairfield stone house burned in 1951. Part of the stone was used to build a four-room house on the bank of Stoner Creek directly in front of the site of the original structure that is now the Fairfield Farm Cottage. The remainder was used as facing for the Anne Duncan House at Duncan Tavern in Paris.

That’s a lot of history, but that’s what you’re experiencing when you stay with us at the Fairfield Farm Cottage. You reach us from US 27 (the Cynthiana Road) via a mile-long gravel driveway. (You wouldn’t want us to pave the historic Alanant-o-Wamiowee, would you???)

You can follow the almost mile-long Stoner Creek Walk along the banks of the Stoner, sit and watch today’s wildlife, enjoy the spot where buffalo crossed the Stoner along the Alanant-o-Wamiowee, fish our Stoner Creek Fishing Hole or our Fairfield Pond or sit and listen to the whispers of history.

The welcoming 900 square foot, two-bedroom stone cottage is yours to enjoy during your stay at Fairfield Farm. The cottage rents for $200 a night for two people, which includes breakfast; $250 a night for four people (14 & up only, please). Sorry no pets and no smoking permitted on the farm.