Richard Latham built the Kentucky House in 1828 on the Edwards Trace on the southwest slope of what is known as Elkhart Hill. The two story structure served as a stagecoach stop on the early stage routes from Springfield to Bloomington. Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, David Davis, and Lincoln's law partners Stephen T. Logan and John T. Stuart were among those who stopped there. The Kentucky House was destroyed by fire in 1876.