Logan's Fort, also known as Logan's Station or St. Asaph, was established in 1775 by Benjamin Logan and John Floyd on Kentucky's frontier near present-day Stanford, one of the earliest permanent settlements in the region alongside Boonesborough and Harrodsburg. Sited near Buffalo Spring along Skaggs's Trace, a branch of the Wilderness Road, the station consisted of a stockaded enclosure roughly 150 by 90 feet with family cabins built along the interior of its walls, a design meant for collective defense and shelter rather than any single family's exclusive use. Its everyday function was as a fortified way station and refuge: it housed both permanent pioneer families and transient settlers passing through on their way to claim land elsewhere in Kentucky County, Virginia, offering protection, a reliable water source, and a base from which surrounding fields could be farmed under armed watch. Residents organized militia patrols, tended crops and livestock near the stockade, and used the fort as a supply and gathering point during the dangerous early years of settlement. As tensions with Native American nations eased through the 1780s and 1790s, the practical need for communal fortified living declined, and families gradually dispersed to establish independent farms, ending the station's role as a defensive settlement. Benjamin Logan went on to become a prominent Kentucky militia leader and statesman. The original fort no longer stands, but the site is commemorated with historical markers and remains of ongoing archaeological interest as one of Kentucky's founding frontier stations.