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ory of this name is preserved in Winslow Street and, as the favored street
intersecting the famous springs, probably was so named by himself. In 1846, he, ‘
with Luther Stevens, another son-in-law of John Maxwell, platted the south
side of Lexington, extending from Maxwell Street south and Broadway east,
which was known as Stevens and Winslow addition and in its day was con-
sidered the most desirable residence property in Lexington. Here were the *-·=
acreage homes of the banker, Matthew T. Scott, of Chief Justice Robertson, Q
the johnsons, Bullocks, Fraziers, of James O. Harrison, the intimate personal
friend of Henry Clay and the executor of his will, and of other distinguished ‘
· citizens.
One can easily fancy Henry Clay mounting his horse and going over by `
the short way to see his friend Harrison. He would ride through "Winslow’s j
Woods," where are now Aylesford and Clifton Heights, and while his negro i
attendant would put up the bars at the crossing of Van Pelt’s Lane, now Rose
Street, we can well imagine the restful joy of the great statesman as he stopped `
to water his horse at one of the familiar springs. He was wont to say, "No ‘
man can call himself a true Kentuckian who has not watered his horse at `
Maxwell Springs." It was here, surrounded by the many thousands who came I
to hear him, that his greatest {lights of eloquence and greatest triumphs were V
made. As he turned on Mulberry Street, as South Limestone was then called, l
his eyes must have searched for the plantings of Ginkgo and other trees and  
shrubs that he had secured for his friends from the first importation of trees ,1
and shrubs from China to the United States. That they discussed with interest l
their adaptability and cultivation there can be no doubt, for these trees, perfect  
and stately, still adorn the grounds of the old Harrison home, now that of the 1
Good Samaritan Hospital. During the possession of the springs by the Wins-
lows, Maxwell Spring water came to be much in demand far and near and 4
bottling works were established to supply this demand.
Maxwell Springs passed from the Winslows (Sarah being duly sworn that
the deed was signed of her own free will and accord and also that she wished
not to retract), to the Maxwell Springs Company, ]une 3, 1850. The records
of the transaction, still intact in the Court House, tell us that Benjamin Gratz, 5
President of the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical Association, for the  
purposes of the said deed and in consideration of five thousand ($5,000) dollars I
by the said party of the second part to the said party of the first part, held the i
deed in trust. The company was incorporated by an act of the General As-
sembly and approved by the Governor, November 30, 1850. The public spirited
men composing this association well deserve the gratitude of posterity. They
inaugurated here a series of agricultural and mechanical fairs that still redounds
to the credit of the Blue Grass region. i
It has been the writer’s privilege to talk with many persons of those ante-
bellum fair days in the fifties. The space between Limestone and Upper Streets
was open ground and the fair grounds themselves jutted much more acutely into
Limestone Street on the south side. The avenue leading to the stock barns was