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 believed to be Colorado Grant. You can read more
about
him from Carl Varble's History of Sparta,
here.
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 |
A Shooting in Sparta. The story's here.