View of Front Street, 1939
Virtually all stone and brick buildings to replace those lost in the fire of March 11, 1919.

Brooksville, 1921
Image Courtesy of the Bracken County Historical Society

Woodland Avenue, Brooksville

 

 

Miami Street, Brooksville

 

Aerial view of Brooksville

Main Street in Brooksville

 

 

Scene from Brooksville Scene from Brooksville
corner of Main and Locust

Miami Street, looking East, circa 1910

Brooksville Scene, 1950's

  

Charming King, in Brooksville

Brooksville was originally named Woodward's Crossing.

Veterans Memorial on Court House Square
 

Brooksville Street Scene, 1960

Brooksville, January 1, 1955

Snow Scene   

 

Brooksville, c. 1958

Scenes from Brooksville, 1967

A Night Rider incident in Brooksville, here.

The history of Brooksville is here. (pdf)

Noted author Ed McClanahan is from Brooksville.  See his Wikipedia entry here; his own page here.

1899 fire destroys Brooksville business district.  Story here.

The lynching of William and Bradford Courts in 1882, here.

Brooksville bridegroom buys his poison on the way to his wedding, story here.

Big scandal in Brooksville in 1882, here.

The day they auctioned off a prisoner for vagrancy in Brooksville. Here.


    Robert Laughlin was hung, legally, in Brooksville on January 9, 1897.
You can read about his crime here, and about his hanging, here.

"Robt. Laughlin, the wife-murderer, will be hanged Saturday at Brooksville, Ky.  Laughlin, who is now confined to jail with Alonzo Walling and Scott Jackson, has agreed to come back in spirit form to the hanging of Jackson and Walling."
from Paris' Bourbon County News, January 5, 1897

"Brooksville, Ky., Feb. 14. - Fire, which started in the Review printing office, destroyed the following buildings: Pope's hotel, Spark's grocery, Barrett's drug store, the Review printing office, Mrs. OBrien's boarding house, Bonfield's grocery and Mrs. Gibson's residences."  from Lancaster, Ky.'s Central Record, February 16, 1899

“Brooksville – Whiskey and blood flow promiscuously here. Late Saturday night during the excitement Vestry Hamilton and John Turner, both drunk, go into a difficulty., when Hamilton was stabbed behind the left shoulder, the point of the blade entering his ling.  He bled considerably, but Drs. Corlis and Bramsock dressed his wound, and he is still able to drink and swear as of old.  Give us a rest; we are tired.” 
The Commonwealth, November 1, 1877

Aerial View of Brooksville, c 1955

 

City View Farm,
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Moneyhon and Mr. and Mrs. Jess Pope

Dr. & Mrs. B. F. Workman
Frankfort Street

Pan (the horse), Joe, and Hildreth (sp?).  A scene near Brooksville, 1913

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