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
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.
| "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 |
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
