Low Dutch Station was established in 1780 on the middle fork of Beargrass Creek

Beargrass Creek

Beargrass Creek is the name given to several forks of a creek in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The Beargrass Creek watershed is the largest in the county, draining over ....

 in Kentucky. This station

Station (frontier defensive structure)

A Station was a defensible residence constructed on the American frontier during the early nineteenth century.Many of these structures were built on the Kentucky frontier in and around the Louisville area during the struggle with the British and Native Americans...

 was settled by Dutch pioneers from Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 and was also known as New Holland Station. The
station was one of a group of six forts established on Beargrass Creek during this period in this area that is now a part of Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

. The leader of the group was Hendrick Banta. The group of settlers were a part of the "Low Dutch Company" that was a group that was structured in that it had bylaws, a formal charter, and accounting procedures. The group had as its purpose the preservation of the language, culture and religion of the Dutch. The Dutch traveled from a settlement near Harrodsburg

Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Harrodsburg is a city in and the county seat of Mercer County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 8,014 at the 2000 census. It is the oldest city in Kentucky.-History:...

 to Low Dutch Station on a road which became Dutchmans Lane in St. Matthews

St. Matthews, Kentucky

St. Matthews is the 20th largest city in Kentucky, United States and is a prominent suburb of Louisville. It is located 8 miles east of downtown Louisville in Jefferson County. It is one of the state's major shopping areas, being home to second and fifth largest malls in Kentucky St. Matthews is...

.

See also

• Corn Island (Kentucky)
  Corn Island (Kentucky)
  Corn Island is a now-vanished island in the Ohio River, at head of the Falls of the Ohio, just north of Louisville, Kentucky.-Geography:Estimates of the size of Corn Island vary with time as it gradually was eroded and became submerged. A 1780 survey listed its size at...
  
  
• Fort Nelson (Kentucky)
  Fort Nelson (Kentucky)
  Fort Nelson, built in 1781 by Richard Chenoweth, was the second on-shore fort on the Ohio River in the area of what is now downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Fort-on-Shore, the downriver and first on-shore fort, had proved to be insufficient barely three years after it was established...
  
  
• Fort-on-Shore
  Fort-on-Shore
  Fort-on-Shore, built in 1778 by William Linn, was the first on-shore fort on the Ohio River in the area of what is now downtown Louisville, Kentucky. George Rogers Clark had directed Linn to move the militia post to the mainland from its original off-shore location at Corn Island...
  
  
• Fort William (Kentucky)
  Fort William (Kentucky)
  Fort William was a pioneer fort in Kentucky established in 1785 by Colonel William Christian and Anne Christian. William Christian directed the defense of what is now Louisville from attacks by the Indians. The fort was in the area of Jefferson County near St. Matthews and Lyndon...
  
  
• Spring Station (Kentucky)
  Spring Station (Kentucky)
  Springs Station was established in 1780 in the area of Beal's Branch of Beargrass Creek in what is now Louisville, Kentucky. It was established at the time of the founding of Louisville as part of the settlement's defensive network of six forts, to protect settlers from attack by the Indians who...
  
  
• Floyd's Station (Kentucky)
  Floyd's Station (Kentucky)
  Floyd's Station was a fort on Beargrass Creek in what is now St. Matthews, Kentucky. In November of 1779 James John Floyd built cabins and a stockade near what is now Breckenridge Lane. In 1783, John Floyd, future Governor of Virginia was born in the Station. The pioneer father was killed by...
  
  
• Bryan's Station
  Battle of Blue Licks
  The Battle of Blue Licks, fought on August 19, 1782, was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Cornwallis's famous surrender at Yorktown, which had effectively ended the war in the east...
  
  
• Station (frontier defensive structure)
  Station (frontier defensive structure)
  A Station was a defensible residence constructed on the American frontier during the early nineteenth century.Many of these structures were built on the Kentucky frontier in and around the Louisville area during the struggle with the British and Native Americans...
  
  
• Long Run Massacre
  Long Run Massacre
  The Long Run Massacre occurred on September 13, 1781 at the intersection of Floyd's Fork creek with Long Run Creek, along the Falls Trace, a trail, in what is now eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky...
  
  
• Shippingport, Kentucky
  Shippingport, Kentucky
  Shippingport, Kentucky is an industrial site and former settlement near Louisville, Kentucky on a peninsula near the Falls of the Ohio. It was incorporated without a name on October 10, 1785, then became Campbell Town after Revolutionary War soldier John Campbell, who had been granted the land for...