
Gratz Graded School, 1909
Looking West on Main Street in Gratz
Gratz Lead Mine
It burned down on Sept. 16, 1914
Gratz, 1964
Gratz in the 1937 Flood
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An item in the 11-19-1886 Owenton Democrat says that
Gratz citizens shipped 300 rabbits to market aboard the
steamship Blue Wing. A week later, 1,000 were shipped.
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| "The suit against A. C. Rice by the Gratz Deposit Bank of which he was the cashier, has been settled. Rice was short in his accounts $9,000, money spent on diamonds, flowers, and fancy driving horses. The American Bonding Company of New York was his surety. His morals were not bad but he had a fool habit of buying diamonds and flowers for his lady friends, while he kept a stable of fine horses equal to a nabob. It is said a rich uncle from Bergie, Mercer County, where Rice formerly resided put up $6,000 of the shortage, the surety company paid $1,000, and the bank took care of the balance. Rice is said to be traveling for a hardware house in Eastern Kentucky." from the Warsaw Independent, January 6, 1906 |
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Benjamin Gratz Brown
...after whom Gratz is probably named. A grandson of
Kentucky's
first senator, John Brown, he was later a Governor of Missouri.
Gratz
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