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Historical Marker 718: Cardome Center | Kentucky Life | KET

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Channel: KET - Kentucky Educational Television · 2014 · Education

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Scott County's Cardome Center was once the home of Civil War Governor James F. Robinson, who served only a year in office.

Robinson, then a state senator, was called to duty after Kentucky's pro-Confederate governor, Beriah Magoffin, refused President Lincoln's call for Kentucky troops. Magoffin wanted to resign and he wanted Robinson, who was loyal to the Union but also pro-slavery, to replace him. To make Robinson next in line for the governorship, he first had to be elected Speaker of the Senate. It was done, Magoffin resigned, and Robinson became governor.

After his time as governor, Robinson served as a trustee of Georgetown College. He lived here at Cardome from 1844 until his death in 1882.

Eventually, Robinson's heirs sold Cardome to an order of cloistered nuns, who established a well-known and well-regarded school for girls here in 1896. Cardome Academy closed in 1969, and Toyota gave $1 million to a local nonprofit organization to buy the property and turn it into a community center. ----------------------------------
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