Around the Town Carriage
Go back in time with a narrated, horse-drawn carriage tour through Historic Bardstown. Group tours available.
- Drive: 29 min
- Address: 223 N. Third St. Bardstown, KY 40004
- Website: here
34 Kentucky is known for its Bourbon trail, but don’t overlook the Wineries while staying near Taylorsville Lake. Below are our favorite wineries listed by drive time in respect to Edgewater Resort. Some of the wineries may seem far, but in the country, everything is a “Drive”. Make sure to enjoy the view of the rolling Kentucky landscape, horse farms, and old town living.
On route to the wineries, keep your eyes on the barns; do you see any painted black? Traditionally barns in Kentucky were painted black to absorb the sun’s rays and raise the heat inside. The heat would aid in the curing of tobacco. As an added bonus, the creosote used in blackening the barns would repel termites. Over time, the black barns turned into a fashion statement in Kentucky.
Go back in time with a narrated, horse-drawn carriage tour through Historic Bardstown. Group tours available.
Historic restaurant and bar. Since the 1700s, Old Talbott Tavern has provided shelter, food and drink to Kentucky travelers.
Replica of a 1790's frontier village representative of the first westward movement of the nation.
The story of America’s first great composer at Kentucky’s official outdoor musical for 60 years
My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky. The park's centerpiece is Federal Hill, a farm owned by United States Senator John Rowan in 1795. During the Rowan family's occupation, the mansion became a meeting place for local politicians and hosted several visiting dignitaries.
Our Museum of Whiskey History boasts a 50-year collection of rare whiskey artifacts dating from pre-colonial days to post-Prohibition days. The museum features rare antique bottles, a moonshine still, advertising art, novelty whiskey containers.
A collection of ten original 18th and 19th Century log structures that form a Colonial period settlement along Bardstown’s Museum Row. The rugged Village Cabins are special favorites of children, as is the old covered bridge.
Over 8,000 sqft The Civil War Museum is America’s largest and most complete museum devoted to the western theater of the American Civil War. The collection of the Civil War Museum includes the flag of raider John Hunt Morgan’s 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman’s presentation sword and a silver flask presented to Confederate General John C. Breckinridge, the former Vice President of the United States.
The Women’s Museum chronicles the achievements of women of all backgrounds, races and creeds during the 1800’s and Civil War. Achievements in science, medicine, nursing, writing, journalism, civil rights, suffrage, the arts, military service and more!
The General Hal Moore Military Museum, dedicated to Bardstown native Lt. General Hal Moore, U.S. Army, a Vietnam and Korean War Hero. He and his influential wife, “Miss Julie” Moore, were subjects of the book and movie “We Were Soldiers Once and Young”. Exhibits in this Museum cover conflicts from the American Revolution to the Mid-East battles of today, and are centered on the contributions of the many Kentuckians who served. We have recently expanded our World War I exhibit to honor the 100th anniversary of that war.
displays a 50 year collection of rare artifacts and documents concerning the American whiskey industry dating from pre-Colonial days to post-Prohibition years. The museum includes exhibits on President Washington, Abraham Lincoln, authentic moonshine stills, antique bottles and jugs, medicinal whiskey bottles, unique advertising art, novelty whiskey containers, and much more.
contains items relating to 200 years of area history. You will find indian relics, Lincoln documents, pioneer papers, John Fitch land grant, a replica of his first steamboat, Stephen Foster memorabilia, a new Trappist monks’ exhibit, gifts of Louis Phillippe and Charles X of France, Civil War artifacts and guerrilla Jesse James hat and wine bottle, St. Joe Preparatory School momentos and much more. Guided tours available.
One of the oldest paved roads in all Kentucky; by 1785 the Cobblestone Path was the original entry to Bardstown from the east and part of the legendary “Wilderness Road”. Congress ordered the pioneer trace to be improved as a military road after 1792, the cobbled paving of the hill dates at least circa 1790, allowing two-way traffic by heavy freight wagons and all wheeled vehicles entering and leaving Bardstown. Now a pedestrian path, the Cobblestone Path makes for a great hike on a sunny day.