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The Rowan family that built and owned Federal Hill for generations was very wealthy. At the time, most average Kentuckians — black and white, slave and free — lived in small cabins with dirt floors. Photo by Tom Eblen | Staff
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Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Tom Eblen
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Tom Eblen is a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader who writes about life, people and issues in Kentucky. A Lexington native, he was the Herald-Leader's managing editor from 1998 to 2008. Before coming home in 1998, he was a reporter and editor for the Atlanta Journal- Constitution and Associated Press.
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