left, West Side of Main Street,
Sparta
right, Main Cross Street, Sparta
Main Street and Depot, Sparta
Looking South, with the L&N in the
background, toward Owen County
left, Exchange Hotel & Postmaster's House
right, Postmaster's House, Sparta
Log shipped to the Talbert-Zoller Lumber Mill in Sparta, c. 1910
birds eye view of Eagle Valley at Sparta, Kentucky
The Sparta Covered Bridge
a bit upstream from the current bridge
Covered Bridge during Overhaul
left & center, Eagle Creek Scene, c. 1920
right, Dam on Eagle Creek, Sparta
Interior of Sparta Bank
When it was only the little corner building.
That's Joe Weldon in the chair.
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"A meeting of the directors of the Sparta State Bank last Wednesday elected Thos. Slaughter, of Owen County and C. M. Gullion, of Sparta, President and Vice-President of the bank, to fill a vacancy made by the passing of Hon. R. B. Brown, who has been the president since the passing of Mr. H. Winn, the bank's first president." Gallatin County News, March 31, 1934. |
Sparta Deposit Bank Logos, 1918, 1904
Sparta Garage, 1965
Dunavent's, 1965
Flood in Sparta, March 1, 1997
This is Colorado Grant. You can read more
about
him from Carl Varble's History of Sparta,
here.
Thanks to Dale Samuel for the picture on the right, taken in 1900,
when Grant was 30 years old.
Seven Sparta Residents
from the November 23, 1939 Gallatin
County News
Carl Varble's History of Sparta, here.
Heard about the Buried Treasure in Sparta? No? Click here.
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""Wm. L. Connelly, of Walton, Ky., left Swayne's Hotel, Old Sparta, Owen county, Kentucky, on Monday night, to cross Eagle creek. He has not bee heard from since. His boat was found loose on the rocks on the bottom. A bloody club was found on the bank and a note, saying, 'This is not the man we wanted.' A hat and overcoat belonging to Connelly were found also, in the boat. He had considerable money on his person. People are searching for the body. There is no clue to the murderers." the Carrollton Democrat, April 16, 1870 |
A ruinous flood in 1905 in Sparta, here.
1942 Fire Destroys Sparta. Read it here.
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"Tuesday night of last week a young man named Swango was killed at Sparta by McFarland, a toll-gate keeper on the Warsaw and Owenton Pike. Swango was killed with a knife and was terribly hacked up. Whiskey was at the bottom of it." from the Covington Journal, March 15, 1873 |
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"The discovery by a Gallatin Countian of a fossilized mastodon jaw with three perfect teeth attached in the dry bed of a creek near his home at Sparta appears to prove that these prehistoric animals lived and died elsewhere in Kentucky than at Big Bone Lick." Louisville Courier-Journal, November 27, 1924 |
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""The new telephone exchange at Sparta is now in full operation, with Mrs. McCormick at the helm. She will be remembered as the accommodating head of the local exchange several years ago. The company erected a new building next door to the Sparta Deposit Bank and its plant is now installed in it." Owenton News-Herald, December 14, 1906 |
A Shooting in Sparta. The story's here.
Mob lynches ax murderer from Sparta,
here.