1866 Carroll County Railroad Proposals
You'll want a key to all those red lines on the map. It's
here.
The Kentucky Explorer
ran this picture and identified it as
"somewhere in Carroll County." If you can come up with a more definitive
location, please let me know. You can email me by clicking
here.
St. Peter's Church, Hunters Bottom
A few words on the history of this church are here.
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"Gold has been found in paying quantities on the farm of John Obertata, in Hunters Bottom, a few miles below Carrollton. Eastern parties have been assaying specimens and their report is so favorable that work in mining the product will begin at once." The Owenton News-Herald, April 20, 1905 |
A. T(J?). Walters Feed and Grist Mill
Carson, Kentucky
Rural Carroll County
McCool's Creek Park, 1944
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| The Gex School, after the 1937 Flood. It sat just east of Gallatin Steel. | Thought to be an old Mylor house, north of US 42, and east of Gallatin Steel |
| Thanks to Bill Davis for these two pictures. | |
M. H. Coleman, c. 1910
Carson, Kentucky
The Best Show of Fat Cattle at the 1931 Bourbon Stock Yards
were shown by these Carroll Countians.
The 50 or so men from Hunters Bottom that joined Civil War
forces in
the Civil war called themselves the Invincibles. Their story is
here. (pdf)
A correspondent describes Locust, in a two part article
from 1885.
Part 1 is here and part 2 is
here. (pdf's)
History of the Bramblett Baptist Church is here.
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On 3-4-1876 the Maysville Republican reports that the Carrollton Independent said that "Last Saturday night the store at Eagle Station belonging to Joseph Sams was entirely consumed by fire. We understand there was about $2,600 worth of goods on which there is about $1,400 insurance." |
About Eagle Station before it declined, here.
A 1934 fire in Eagle Station is reported here, and a 1905 fire is reported here.
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"One of the most interesting of Kentucky meteorites and the one which has the reputation of being the finest and most beautiful pallasite, was found near Eagle Station, Carroll County. The main mass is now in Natur Historishe Museum in Vienna and efforts to obtain a piece of it were fruitless after the Nazis took over Vienna." Louisville Courier-Journal, September 1, 1940 |
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The town of Carson, which existed before I-71 construction eliminated it, was originally named Bramblett, but when they tried to establish a post office, they found there was already a Kentucky town named Bramblett, in Nicholas County. Hence the name Carson. |
