Helm Place (Elizabethtown, Kentucky)
Helm Place is a white-columned, brick mansion built by John LaRue Helm in the 1830s, about one and a half miles north of the center of Elizabethtown, Kentucky.The purchase included his father's home several miles outside of Elizabethtown.John then sold his father's home and some 500 acres to Reverend Charles J. Cecil and the Sisters of Loretto, who used the property to create a girls boarding school known as Bethlehem Academy.The settlers built their homes in between the three forts, forming a small community that developed into Elizabethtown in the 1790s.This article about a property in Hardin County, Kentucky on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.
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