Formerly known as Clifton, Woodland Farm includes a home with three sections built at different times. Thomas Barbour, a founder of Oldham County, established the farm and built the third portion of the home circa 1840. He sold the farm in 1855 to Richard T. Jacob, who became lieutenant governor of Kentucky. After being farmed for over 150 years, Woodland was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. Eighteen Mile Island, part of the farm, became the first source of water for the county public water system in 1964. In 1997 Laura Lee Brown and James Steven Wilson founded a nationally recognized breeding farm for American bison there. In 2003 the farm was placed under protection from development through the Department of Agriculture Purchase of Agriculture Conservation Easement program.