Thanks for the link.

John Tasker Howard (in Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour, Tudor, 1934, p. 174) writes:

Yet it is the duty of the historian, and th honest biographer, to distinguish between fact and fancy. As far as I can discover, the earliest mention of Federal Hill in connection with Stephen's song was made in the last decade of the nineteenth century, for, commencing in 1893, there appeared in various newspapers, among them the Louisville Journal, a number of news stories cennecting Federal Hill with Stephen Foster and "My Old Kentucky Home." It is important too to note that Susan Pentland [Robinson]'s statement* that Foster visited Bardstown at the time of the Southern trip in 1852 was made in 1900, forty-eight years later.

       *The Pittsburgh Press (September 12, 1900)

See also Morneweck's Chronicles, vol. 2 (pp. 402ff.).

~Masato