A landmark of faith, family & frontier Kentucky

More than two centuries of stories live here.

Discover the historic home of pioneer preacher Andrew Tribble, whose family story reaches back to Kentucky’s early settlement. Explore the log house’s history and restoration, then join us for Kentucky Chautauqua® performances, storytelling and community gatherings that keep the parsonage’s tradition of hospitality alive.

Just miles from Kentucky’s Fort Boonesborough State Park, the settlement associated with legendary pioneer Daniel Boone. Discover the Boone–Tribble family connection →

Old Parsonage of Andrew Tribble — History, Heritage, Community. Gold oval artwork featuring the log house and an oak tree.
1794Traditional construction date
300 acresTribble’s original farm
12 childrenThe Tribble household
1967Building moved and preserved

The place behind the history

A frontier home where family life, ministry and the making of a young community met under one roof.

Andrew Tribble came to Kentucky after years of ministry in colonial Virginia, where dissenting preachers challenged an established religious order and endured punishment for worshiping outside it. His life connects the struggle for liberty of conscience with the formation of early Kentucky communities.

In Madison County, Tribble organized congregations, performed marriages and helped create institutions that outlived the frontier generation. The parsonage preserves that larger story. It also carries the memories of the Tribble family, the people who labored on the estate, later generations who altered the house, and the preservationists who saved it by moving it to Boonesborough Road.

The Rev. Dr. Rusty Reichenbach’s research forms the principal local archive behind this interpretation. Published histories, county records, church sources and archival collections provide additional evidence and context.

Explore the timeline

Every chapter has its own story.

Follow Andrew Tribble from colonial Virginia to Kentucky, then trace the parsonage through family celebrations, physical changes, relocation and restoration.

1741

Virginia beginnings

Birth, conversion and the first generation of Baptists north of the James River.

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1760s–70s

Preaching under pressure

Colonial laws, imprisonment and the Baptist struggle for religious equality.

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1770s

Thomas Jefferson

Tribble’s Albemarle pastorate and the church-government story preserved since 1826.

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1783–86

Across the mountains

Migration to Kentucky and the gathering of the Tates Creek congregation.

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1793

Daniel Boone & the Tribble family

Marriage, friendship and faith connect two families on the Kentucky frontier.

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1794

The parsonage rises

A two-story log home for Sarah, Andrew, their children and the wider community.

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1812

The great wedding

Martha “Patsy” Tribble marries Dr. Jacob White before Madison County society.

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1822 onward

Family and legacy

Peter’s ministry, Dudley’s farm and the lives too often missing from older accounts.

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1967

The house moves

Nathan Amster dismantles the surviving structure and creates Boone’s Trading Post.

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Today

A living gathering place

Restoration, programs, weddings, storytelling and the continuing work of preservation.

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October 11, 2026

Adolph Rupp: The Coach

Next event · Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern
Join us for an afternoon of Kentucky Chautauqua® and basketball history.

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November 8, 2026

Mary Settles

The Last Shaker at Pleasant Hill
Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern · A Kentucky Chautauqua® performance at the parsonage.

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