Ten Broeck, Kentucky

Ten Broeck, Kentucky
City
Location of Ten Broeck in Jefferson County, Kentucky
Ten Broeck Location within the state of Kentucky Ten Broeck Ten Broeck (the United States)
Coordinates: 38°17′52″N 85°34′50″W
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
County	Jefferson
Area
• Total	0.22 sq mi (0.57 km2)
• Land	0.22 sq mi (0.56 km2)
• Water	0.00 sq mi (0.01 km2)
Elevation	587 ft (179 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	99
• Density	454.13/sq mi (175.70/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP Code	40241
FIPS code	21-75963
GNIS feature ID	2405578

Ten Broeck is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 103 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Ten Broeck is located in northeastern Jefferson County. It is bordered to the west by Manor Creek and Broeck Pointe, to the southwest by Murray Hill, and on all other sides by consolidated Louisville/Jefferson County. Kentucky Route 22 (Brownsboro Road) forms the northern border of the community. Downtown Louisville is 11 miles (18 km) to the southwest.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Ten Broeck has a total area of 0.22 square miles (0.57 km²), of which 1.4 acres (5,624 m²), or 0.99%, are water.

History

The City of Ten Broeck, Jefferson County, Kentucky was named after a famous horse and a very colorful horseman, Richard Ten Broeck. This is a short summary of the details.

1811 - Albany NY Richard Ten Broeck was born into a distinguished Dutch American family. The Ten Broecks originally came to America from Holland with Peter Minuit in 1626.

1829 - West Point Richard Ten Broeck spent eight months as a West Point cadet but resigned after challenging an instructor to a duel. (Your commissioners, by Kentucky law, must swear not to duel.) He decided to leave home to travel, became a riverboat gambler and eventually took up the life of a horseman. He was successful as a horseman and by 1853 bought Metairie Racetrack in Louisiana and became known as the “Dictator of the Turf.”

1853 - Lexington KY Searching for a winning colt, he bought Darley to represent Kentucky in the Metairie Great State Post Stakes, renamed him Lexington and won. In 1857 Richard took his stable to England and raced there with mixed results over a period of 25 years. He returned to the USA between English racing seasons. The colt Lexington was retired from racing and stayed in Kentucky.

1862 - Midway KY Lexington lead the American Sire List for 16 years (1861–1874 and 1876–1878), producing many champions and civil war mounts lost in battle (1861-1865). Of particular interest is a Lexington filly, Fanny Holton out of Nantura, born in 1862 at John Harper’s Nantura Stud Farm in Midway, KY.

1868 - Louisville Richard Ten Broeck purchased 525 acres near Louisville and named it Hurstbourne Stud after the Duke of Portland’s estate in England. He also imported a few English horses, among them a colt, Phaeton.

1872 - Midway Phaeton sired a bay colt out of Fanny Holton at Nantura Stud Farm, and John Harper named him Ten Broeck after his friend Richard Ten Broeck. So Darley, now Lexington, sired the mare (Fanny Holton) that foaled Ten Broeck.

1873 - Louisville After the death of his first wife, Patty Duncan Anderson Ten Broeck, Richard Ten Broeck married Mary Smith Newcomb, daughter of John B. Smith, a prominent Louisville banker. In 1879 their son Richard Ten Broeck Jr. was born.

1875 - 1878 Ten Broeck won 23 of his 29 races and was known as one of the fastest horses of his day. He ran in the first Kentucky Derby, 1875, where he finished 5th. The winner, the famous Aristides, was also a grandson of Lexington. Aristides was foaled by Sarong, a daughter of Lexington. Ten Broeck’s most notable win was the famous match race at Churchill Downs in 1878 where he handily beat the previously undefeated Mollie McCarthy. He was so popular that the United States Congress once adjourned early to see Ten Broeck run at Pimlico. Ten Broeck held 6 world track records in 1, 1-5/8, 2, 2-5/8, 3 and 4 miles.

1886 - Louisville Roger M. Smith, brother-in-law of Richard Ten Broeck Sr., bought the property now known as the “City of Ten Broeck” as a summer home. He established a dairy farm and built a large house.

1886 - Louisville About this time Richard Ten Broeck Sr. became very eccentric, retired from racing, sold Hurstbourne Stud, left his family and moved to San Mateo, California. His wife and young son moved to Willow Brook, the home of her brother, Roger, and his family. Richard Ten Broeck Jr. lived in the (Ten Broeck) summer home and eventually managed the farm. A local historian, Russell E. Chamberlain, related that when he was a young boy (1917 – 1920 time frame) he would see Richard Ten Broeck Jr. at his father’s blacksmith shop on Chamberlain Lane.

1887 - Midway After retiring and serving successfully at stud, Ten Broeck was laid to rest on Harper’s Farm, Midway, Kentucky. Ten Broeck’s tombstone lists his performances and is the oldest equine monument in Kentucky. He is buried next to another of Harper’s great runners, Longfellow. The Woodford Sun newspaper stated that these two horses were “among the first to establish Kentucky as a great racing and breeding state.”

1889 - Louisville The winner of the 1889 Kentucky Derby was Spokane, a chestnut colt, and great grandson of Lexington.

1892 - Louisville Richard Ten Broeck Sr. died in a small San Mateo cottage called The Hermitage. His body was returned to Louisville, and he was laid to rest in Cave Hill Cemetery. His wife, Mary Smith Ten Broeck, died in 1905, and she is also buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.

1916 - Louisville Roger M. Smith (brother-in-law of Richard Ten Broeck Sr.) committed suicide near the (Ten Broeck) summer home. Apparently he became despondent after the death of his wife, Jane Hamilton Smith, who died in 1909. He shot himself near his barn and was found by his dairyman, John “Duck” Chamberlain, who called Richard Ten Broeck Jr. to the scene.

Roger had tried to drown himself in the farm pond a few weeks earlier but Chamberlain had rescued him. Ownership of the property was willed to Roger’s daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith de Booy, who lived in New Jersey. She transferred the property to Roger’s sister Kate W. Smith.

1919 - Louisville Kate W. Smith died and willed the property, in trust, jointly to Richard Ten Broeck Jr. and Mrs. Elizabeth Smith de Booy. At this point the property was owned (jointly) by a Ten Broeck.

1920 - Louisville The City of Ten Broeck was sold to the Louisville Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The scouts planned to establish a summer camp, however, they apparently found another site for they soon sold the property to Joseph M. Emmart and Edmond P Thomas, owners of a packing company. Two years later it was sold to George V. Barnes and his sister Carolyn Barnes Schreiber. Barnes raised thoroughbreds.

1938 - Louisville Dr. and Mrs. Warren E. MacGregor, a local dentist, bought the property and moved into the house built by Roger M. Smith. The house burned and they moved into the other house on the property.

1954 - Louisville The MacGregors sold the property to Mr. Arthur Wolpert. Wolpert developed Ten Broeck as we now know it and formed the Ten Broeck Property Owner’s Association.

1980 - Louisville The residents of Ten Broeck dissolved the Property Owner’s Association and incorporated as the City of Ten Broeck, a sixth class city of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Street Names

The street names of the City of Ten Broeck recall the history of America’s greatest horses. In the early 1700’s, Queen Anne and William III of England imported three stallions from which all modern racehorses descend. They became known as Thoroughbreds. These three stallions were, The Byereley Turk, The Godolphin Arabian and the Darley Arabian. Thus one of the streets, Darley Drive, was named after one of the foundation stallions of the modern Thoroughbred.

Darley Drive & Lexington Lane:

Foaled in 1850, another Darley was considered America’s first great horse (KENTUCKY Live Stock Record). Darley lived and raced prior to the beginning of the Kentucky Derby. His name was changed to Lexington in 1853. Lexington would become America’s leading sire sixteen times, fourteen years in a row. Lexington’s direct descendents won 16 of the first 33 Kentucky Derby’s. Lexington’s mounted skeleton (catalog no.16020) is in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.

Ten Broeck Way

Ten Broeck (1872-1887), a grandson of Lexington on his dam’s side, ran fifth in the first Kentucky Derby in 1875. He set 6 world records, 1, 1-5/8, 2, 2-5/8, 3, and 4 miles. Ten Broeck was named after Richard Ten Broeck, but was owned by John Harper. Ten Broeck is buried on John Harper’s Nantura Farm. This was the first horse Cemetery in the Country and Ten Broeck has the oldest equine monument, which still stands. Nantura farm is located at Midway, Kentucky.

In 1878, 30,000 race fans gathered at Churchill Downs to watch the greatest match race ever between Ten Broeck and an undefeated horse from California named Mollie McCarthy. Ten Broeck won the 4 mile first heat by such a large margin; the match (that was the best of 3 heats) was over according to the rules for the race. Bill Monroe, King of Bluegrass Music, and The Stanley Brothers recorded the ballad, Mollie and Ten Broeck.

Spokane Way

Spokane won the 1889 Kentucky Derby and is a great, great grandson of Lexington on his dam’s side.

Brockwood Path

Brookwood Path was named because there was a brook near the woods along the street that is now Brookwood Path, and Path because racetracks, at that time, were called Paths. Today jockeys still refer to imaginary lanes on the track as being one path or three paths etc. when describing the route they took their mount (horse) on. One path is closest to the rail and larger numbered paths are farther from the rail.

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1980	134		—
1990	128		−4.5%
2000	129		0.8%
2010	103		−20.2%
2020	99		−3.9%
U.S. Decennial Census

As of the census of 2000, there were 129 people, 47 households, and 39 families residing in the city. The population density was 537.3 inhabitants per square mile (207.5/km²). There were 48 housing units at an average density of 199.9 per square mile (77.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 94.57% White, 1.55% African American, 2.33% Asian, and 1.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.78% of the population.

There were 47 households, out of which 38.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 78.7% were married couples living together, 2.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.0% were non-families. 14.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the average family size was 3.08.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.6% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 16.3% from 25 to 44, 35.7% from 45 to 64, and 17.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.7 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $134,063, and the median income for a family was $138,174. Males had a median income of $100,000 versus $82,038 for females. The per capita income for the city was $51,593. None of the population and none of the families were below the poverty line.