Barlow House Museum

The Barlow House Museum is a nationally registered historic house located in Barlow, Kentucky near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Thomas Jefferson Barlow and his wife left Georgetown, KY in the spring of 1849 to settle in the “wilderness” of Ballard County. Barlow purchased 400 acres for $4/acre in territory later incorporated as the town of Barlow. Near the railroad depot he built a log cabin and there on November 18, 1849, his son Clifton Jesse Barlow was born. Later employed as a tariff collector on the Mississippi river Clifton Barlow married Carrie Mae Miller and in 1903 built the Victorian home that now houses the Barlow Family Museum. The house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

1. Barlow, Kentucky