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| 1763 | Treaty of Paris, ending French and Indian War |
| 1770 |
Daniel Boone scouts the 0hio River for the first time. |
| 1775 | Daniel Boone blazes the Wilderness Trail and founds Boonesborough. |
| 1775-83 | American Revolutionary War |
| 1776 | Declaration of Independence is written. |
| 1776 | Virginia establishes the territory of Kentucky as a county of Virginia. |
| 1777 | December 1—Edward Tyler’s son, William, enters service with George Rogers Clark as a private and explores the Ohio River Valley. |
| 1779 | Town of Louisville established at the Falls of the Ohio, by act of Virginia Legislature. |
| 1780 | Edward Tyler, Sr., settles at the Falls of the Ohio, Louisville. |
| 1782 | Edward Tyler acquires 503.25 acres on Chenoweth Run by virtue of Treasury Warrant No. 12182. |
| 1783 | Edward Tyler opens tavern in downtown Louisville. |
| Late 1780s | Edward Tyler’s nephew, Robert Tyler, builds log cabin on a farm adjacent to Blackacre. |
| 1787 | U.S. Constitution adopted. |
| 1790 | Kentucky population: 61,133 whites, 12,430 slaves, 114 freed blacks, for a total of 73,677 |
| 1792 | Date of stone house and possibly log barn at Blackacre |
| 1792 | Kentucky statehood |
| 1792 | Moses Tyler acquires 220 acres adjacent to his father’s land from Alexander Breckinridge. |
| 1794 | Moses Tyler acquires 200 acres from brother, William Tyler, who received it from their father, Edward, Sr. |
| 1798 | Moses Tyler receives first whiskey license issued by the state of Kentucky. |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase, opening up trade on the Mississippi River |
| 1811 | Arrival in Louisville of Nicholas Roosevelt’s steamer, the New Orleans |
| 1812 | War of 1812 with Great Britain |
| 1826 | Thomas Jefferson dies, age 83. |
| 1828 | Louisville incorporated as a city |
| 1830 | Lexington and Ohio Railroad chartered |
| 1834 | Moses Tyler deeds his property to son Presley (1796-1879). |
| 1839 | Moses Tyler dies. |
| 1844 | Presley Tyler finishes brick house at Blackacre. |
| 1850 | Louisville and Nashville (L & N) Railroad chartered |
| 1861-65 | Civil War |
| 1879 | Presley Tyler dies. |
| 1881 | Presley’s widow, daughter, and son-in-law sell the 407-acre farm to John T. Sweeney. |
| 1885 | Sweeney sells to John Kroeger, a German immigrant. John’s son, Theodore lives on the property until his death in 1910. |
| 1887 | Louisville Southern Railroad is built on the north side of Blackacre, connecting Louisville to Lexington and Danville. |
| 1910 | Joseph and Delilah Wheeler buy the Blackacre property. |
| 1915-18 | World War I |
| 1939 | William and Elizabeth Woodward buy the Blackacre property. |
| 1940-45 | World War II |
| 1950 | Macauley and Emilie Smith buy the land and call it Blackacre. |
| 1979 | The Smiths donate farm to the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission as Kentucky’s first nature preserve. |
| 1982 | Susanne L. Schick Nature Center opens. |
| 1986 | Six hundred acres of the original Tyler family farms are designated as the National Tyler Settlement Rural Historic District. |
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