====== Union ======
In the central part of [[Boone County]], the [[aylor family|Aylor]], Fowler, Stansifers and Steers families were among those contributing to the early settlement of the Union area along Fowler's Branch of Gunpowder Creek. In c. [[1817]] Benjamin Piatt Fowler built [[benjamin_piatt_fowler_house
|a magnificent stone house]] on part of his father's 5000 acres and, in [[1818]], [[Revolutionary War]] veteran Hugh Steers (buried on the eighteenth green of today's Lassing Pointe Golf Course), donated land for the [[Bethel Baptist Church]] on Frogtown Road.
The [[towns|town]] of Union developed at the crossroads of the Covington-Louisville Road and the Gaines Old Stand-Visalia Road and was designated a United States Post Office in [[1830]].
===== More Information =====
* [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/history/search/results?qu=union&te=&lm=LHDC|Browse photographs and resources]] about Union
* [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/22788/0|1883 Union Precinct map]]
===== Related Topics =====
* [[morris_t._lassing_house|Morris T. Lassing House (BE 274)]]
* [[Towns]] in Boone County
* [[Union Baptist Church]]
* [[Union Deposit Bank]]
* [[Union Presbyterian Church]]
* [[White Haven Academy]]
====Related Websites====
* [[http://www.cityofunionky.org/|City of Union, KY]]
===== Videos =====
**The History of the Union, Kentucky** (4 parts).
Presented by [[Bruce Ferguson]], 2004.