Boyd's Station

Boyd’s Station - a Kentucky non profit 501(c)(3) organization - offers varied artists a rural and serene environment to “live free and create” through various artist residence programs for periods of up to 12 months in time in which to pursue the artist’s individual craft without distraction in a supportive community of like artists seeking to create self-sustaining careers in the arts.

The Boyd’s Station PLACE+SPACE program provides artist studio space and no cost housing in the village of Boyd, Kentucky for student and professional visual and literary artists.

The Boyd’s Station 306.36 Visual Documentary Project selects one visual documentary photographer each year to take part in creating a photographic archive in time of the people and places within the 306.36 square miles surrounding rural Harrison County, Kentucky while providing an unprecedented learning opportunity through professional feedback and mentoring for an emerging documentary photographer.

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Established in the early 1800's as a primitive Kentucky settlement on the South Fork of the Licking River, Whitehead Coleman built a watermill in 1810 known as "Broad Ford Mill" just below the bluff of modern day Boyd, Kentucky.

On December 8, 1854, on the site of the watermill, Thomas Boyd established a trading post which he named Boyd’s Station in honor of Andrew Boyd, Sr., an early Kentucky settler. Within a short time, Boyd's Station became a coal and water supply station on the Covington and Lexington railroad and a small village grew up around the station.

In 1880, the outpost became to be known simply as Boyd.