This Italianate cottage was the home of Edward Dudley Brown (1848-1906), who in one lifetime went from slave to jockey to trainer to owner. Separated from his family at eight and sold into slavery to Robert A. Alexander of Woodburn Farm in Woodford…

Allen lived at 416 Kinkead Street, now Hummons Avenue. Dudley Allen (1845-1911) was born into slavery in Lexington, Kentucky, and eventually served in the Army with Company M of the 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry, 1864-1866, as a Quartermaster…