Owenton Street Scene
Owenton Scene, 1916
Georgetown Pike, South Owenton, 1910
Owenton High School & Graded School
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"Honaker & Lewis is the style of the newest firm in Owenton. It is composed of Fritz Honaker and Joe Lewis, two of our enterprising and accommodating citizens. They will hold forth in the Glasscock's building next door the Littrell's, in Court street, and will run a first-class meat, restaurant, and grocery store, Homemade candies, fruits and vegetables of all kinds will be kept fresh on tap at all times. Mr. Honaker was at one time associated with Mr. Barthel, the baker, and is a practical candy maker. Mr. Lewis is the proprietor of the Farmers Hotel, but expects to retire from this business the first of the year." News-Herald, December 14, 1906. |
Knights of Pythias' Castle Hall
left, Court Day in Owenton
right, Main Street
Owen County Court House,
March 30, 1941
Owen County Courthouse
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This is the fourth Owen Co Courthouse. It was built in 1858, and re-modeled in 1876. It was once occupied by Confederate troops under Gen. Humphrey Marshall. |
Owen County Jail
Sleet on Main Street Street, Owenton
Looking West on Seminary Street, Owenton
Home of Thomas A. Berryman,
Pioneer Lawyer, Owenton, Kentucky
(On Blanton Street, this building has also been used
a girl's school dormitory, a buggy factory and a residence.)
Berryman was also the builder of Perry
Park's Inverness. That
home, along with it's 747 acres was a wedding present to his
daughter, Ann Mary, who was marrying Dr. Daniel S. Adams.
Residence on Adams Street, Owenton
Adams Street Looking North, 1907
Keightly Homestead, Owenton
Owenton, c. 1883
W. B. Long remembers Owenton in a letter from 1905, here.
"The Owenton Shakespeare Club met on January 7, at which
the club began reading King Lear."
from the Owenton News-Herald, January 10, 1907
Big fire in Owenton, January, 1908. Read about it here.
