Elk Lake Shores, near Owenton
Balls Landing, Kentucky, 1908
The location known today as Perry Park was originally known as
"Lick Skillet,"
(supposedly as a result of food being in such short supply that they had to
...).
Afterwards, it was know as "Cleveland," probably after the US
president of that
name. It became Ball's Landing around 1887, and was changed to Perry Park in 1933.
The boat in the picture is the Falls City - more on it
here.
A history of Perry Park is here. (pdf)
Owen County School Bus
On Elmer Davis Road
Lowdenback's Store in Pleasant Home
Sites on the Owenton Carrollton Road, c. 1925
Sweet Owen, from Casa Bianca, 1931
Tobacco in Owen County, 1907
In 1931, Kentucky Progress Magazine named George W.
Davis one of it's few Kentucky Master Farmers.
These three Owen County sheep farming images are all from the
Kentucky Agricultural Extension Service, and are, from left to right,
from 1932, 1937, and 1927.
At the Owen County Fair, 1931
Poplar Grove Baptist Church
News and politics in 1908 from High View Far, near Sweet Owen, here.
Natlee Covered Bridge
White Burley, Owen County, Kentucky
Long Ridge Store, c. 1910
The History of the Squiresville Baptist Church is here. (pdf)
Beechwood School
New Columbus Elementary School
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"CHURCH FOR SALE: I will offer at public sale on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 3 o'clock P. M. the church building, benches, chandeliers, pulpit, chairs, and all content of the M. E. Church at Sweet Owen. - J. W. Bentley" from the Owenton News-Herald of September 19, 1907. |
Steam mill explodes in Caney precinct; kills 2. Story
here.
Greetings from Wheatley
To Miss Ocie Bilb, Balls Landing, Owen Co. Ky
I am just fine and dandy. I haven't studied
much since school was out. Clarence B.
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New Columbus | Sparta
Dallasburg | Poplar Grove
Charles Johnson reminisces about the boats that used to ply
the Kentucky River, and other Kentucky River memories,
here.
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"'The celebrated living,
moving, automatic, self-adjusting, non-digesting, anti-troublesome,
self-manipulating, trans-migratory, perfect-acting walnut huller,'
in the shape of a cow, owned by M. G. Waldrop, , at this place
[Sweet Owen]. The living curiosity has a morbid appetite for the
walnut, which she satiates by swallowing them to her heart's
content. Afterward she belches them up, chews off and swallows
the hull, giving her keeper the walnut the crack." |
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"Marion, a landing on the Kentucky River in this county, known to the mailing public as Moxley, named in honor of a much esteemed and good citizen, A. Moxley Riggs, has improved so in the last two years that the place is now familiarly spoken of as a 'town,' and honored as a hamlet. A. D. Daniel & Co. began selling goods there in the early part of '84, at which time no other business was carried on and only two dwelling houses stood in the vicinity. Now the place has all the accommodations of a village. Besides general merchandise, blacksmithing, shoe-making and saddlering are among its accommodations." Owen County Democrat, Dec. 10, 1886 |
