The Tyler Family Association was organized in 1980 under the leadership of Connie Mulholland. The association is composed of descendants of Edward and Ann Langley "Nancy" Tyler whocame in 1780 to Louisville, in the Kentucky territory, from Redstone, now Brownsville, Penn. The family included four sons, six daughters, and one nephew. Part of the family moved to the Tyler family settlement in about
1783, a land grant purchased by Edward Tyler from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Although the family prospered at the settlement, east of Jeffersontown, near Louisville, possession of the property passed out of family ownership, ultimately, with a portion of it resting with Judge Macauley and Emilie Smith. Recognizing the historic valus of the property, the judge deeded the property to the state of Kentucky as a nature preserve. Emilie later purchased another portion of the original Tyler property to be added to the preserve. Farming operations on the property of Blackacre, begun by the Tylers in the 1780's, continues to this day, making it one of the oldest continuously operated farms in the Commowealth of Kentucky.
