Hygeia was a proposed utopian community on the bank of the Ohio River

Ohio River

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 on the site of present-day Ludlow, Kentucky

Ludlow, Kentucky

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The land was granted to Gen. Thomas Sandford

Thomas Sandford

Thomas Sandford was an American soldier and politician.He was born in Westmoreland, Virginia in 1762; rose to General in the American War of Independence; settled in Kentucky, where he had been granted land, in 1792. In his political career he was a state representative and senator, then a...

 by the U.S. military in 1790. Sandford traded the land to Thomas D. Carneal, who had Elmwood Hall built in 1818 on the riverfront, then sold the land to William Bullock, a British

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 showman, entrepreneur and traveller, owner of the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly

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. Bullock proposed a planned community named Hygeia (a Greek

Greek language

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 word meaning health) designed in Egyptian style by John Buonarotti Papworth

John Buonarotti Papworth

John Buonarotti Papworth was a prolific architect, artist and a founder member of the Royal Institute of British Architects....

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The speculation was not a success, although some people, including Frances Trollope

Frances Trollope

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, took part; Bullock sold the land to Israel L. Ludlow in 1846. http://news.nky.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Dato=20051010&Kategori=LOCAL0312&Lopenr=310100007&Ref=AR