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They built the first brick house in Kentucky which is maintained at the William Whitley House State Historic Site in Crab Orchard, Kentucky. Esther Gill Fullen was born in Augusta County, Virginia. The Whitleys built a house and estate called Sportsman Hill which contained the first brick house in Kentucky. had an oval race track for horse racing that ran in a counterclockwise direction differing for the direction of British horse racing.