1001 Ellerslie

Category: Markers

Marker reads The home which stood on this site from 1787 to 1947 was built by Levi Todd 1756-1807, who named it for his ancestral village in Scotland. He was one of a party of hunters who named Lexington in 1775; first Fayette County clerk; aide to George Rogers Clark, 1779, Kaskaskia Expedition; Maj., Battle Blue Licks; trustee, Transylvania; grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln.