STONEWALL HISTORY IN BRIEF
The Stonewall neighborhood began to be settled in the late 1950s in what was then the outskirts of the city. The first homes were constructed west of Clays Mill Road and south of New Circle Road along Wellington Way and the streets north of it from Buckingham Way to Hyde Park Drive. Stone pillars marked the northern boundary on Cheisea and Hyde Park Drive, and Arrowhead Drive ended at Buckingham. Settlement gradually expanded south. The Stonewall Estates subdivision was constructed in the middle 1960s, extending south to Cromwell Way. You can tell where the subdivision began by noting where open storm sewers disappear as you drive south from Wellington Way and Tudor and Saxon Drive.
The Waverly Estates and Grasmere subdivisions south of Stonewall Estates were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Later development filled out the Equestrian Estates subdivision at the end of Cindy Blair Way and a few homes on Witthuhn Way. By 1990 the area had filled up to become a community of 1,000 homes extending south to Higbee Mill Road. Arguably the last home built on empty land in Stonewall was constructed on Roxburg Drive in 1995. Convenient connections to Harrodsburg Road were made possible in the 1990s with the extension of Wellington Way through the Rabbit Run neighborhood and the connection of the two separate sections of Arrowhead Drive.
If you have photos or newspaper articles that you think would be useful in filling out the history of Stonewall, plan to send them to Leah Atkinson-Brand. She would love to have volunteers to work on reconstructing our neighborhood’s history from that first settlement in the late 1950s to the present.