Home Hotel in Brooksville, c. 1932
In 1911, The Farmers Equity Bank of
Brooksville published a book
of Kentucky Farm Laws. These are the ads from the book
Did you know National Banks used to print their own money?
Here's two $5 bills from the First National Bank of Brooksville.
left, S. William Bay Motor Co.,
1939
right, Farmers and Merchants Milling Co., 1939
Brooksville Lumber, late 1800's
A partial list of who's in the picture, is here.
Image Courtesy of the Bracken County Historical Society
Bracken County News, c. 1950's
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"Mrs. R. S. Williams, lately of the Winchester Chronicle, proposes to publish a paper, entitled Bracken County Chronicle, at Augusta, Ky. The Chronicle will be independent and conservative. Price $2 per year. We trust the undertaking will be entirely successful." from the Covington Journal, December 22, 1855 |
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The Brooksville Railroad began operating in June of 1897. It went bankrupt in 1918 and was purchased by a group of Brooksville businessmen, who re-organized it as the Brooksville and Ohio River Railroad. It ran along Locust Creek, north, to Wellsburg. It was abandoned on 4-11-1931, and this scene is now Jett Memorial Park. |
right,
Terminal, showing depot and engine house
center, Map of the
Brooksville and Ohio River Railroad
left,
Passengers ride a section car after passenger service is discontinued
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These last three are from Elmer Sulzer's Ghost Railroads of Kentucky. The Brooksville and Ohio completed its 9.89 route in June of 1897, passenger service was eliminated in 1918, and on April 11, 1931, the ICC approved the abandonment of the railroad. By that time, it had been some time since any trains had actually run. Better roads and trucks can be blamed for the railroads demise. |
