Brooksville
A post village and the capital of Bracken county, situated on Locust creek, about 80 miles east north-east from Frankfort, 50 miles from Covington, about 250 miles [!] from Louisville, and nine miles from the Ohio river. Distance by stage route to Augusta nine and a half miles.
It is situated in a fertile region, commanding an active business and contains a Court House, five stores, two churches, one seminary, one Masonic Lodge (Brooksville, No. 154), two hotels, one water flouring mill, one water grist mill, one steam saw mill, one druggist, two physicians, six attorneys, three magistrates, one carding machine, one carriage maker, two saddlers, one tanner, and one tobacconist. Population about 300. Post office established in 1839.
Jacob Walker, postmaster
Business Directory
Adamson, Geo. | carpenter and builder |
Barrett, E. R. | county surveyor |
Best, Wm. M. | cooper |
Best, Wm. M. | general store |
Bonde, J. H. | attorney at law |
Bonde, J. H. | probate judge |
Bonfield, J. W. | school teacher |
Brooks, David | planter |
Brooksville Seminary | J. W. Bonfield, teacher |
Brooksville Lodge | F.& A. Masons, No. 154 |
Childs, E. P. | general store |
Clark, John B. | attorney at law |
Clark, J. B. | auditor |
Clayton, P. H. | sheriff |
Corlis, J. W. R. | physician and surgeon |
Crupper, Wm. B. | justice of the peace |
Donovan, James | tanner |
Fenber, John N. | attorney at law |
Florer, A. | carpenter and builder |
Florer, M. | carpenter and builder |
Freeze, G. P. | druggist |
Fronk, M. L. D. | carpenter and builder |
Fronk, Samuel | planter |
Fronk, Henry | painter |
Gill, R. | tobacco and cigars |
Haley, Porter | planter |
Hamilton, J. C. | planter |
Hamilton, G. W. | attorney at law |
Harvey, R. J. | carpenter and builder |
Hughey, R. J. | county clerk |
Lee, C. H. | county judge |
Lee, C. H. | attorney at law |
Lee, Reese & Melvin | carding machine |
Lee, Reese & Melvin | proprietors, flouring mill |
McDonald, A. G. | harness and saddle maker |
Mathews, A | harness and saddle maker |
Marshall, Wm. | marshall |
Melvin, James | wagon maker |
Murray, James | planter |
Morton, Silas | constable |
Prekins, L. M. | tailor |
Pincard, A. | physician and surgeon |
Powell, F. | cooper |
Schoolfield, John | justice of the peace |
Sellers, John | blacksmith |
Smith, Rev. G. W. | Methodist Episc. |
Stoll, H. | boot and shoe maker |
Stratton, James | plow maker |
Walker, J. | boot and shoe maker |
Walker, Jacob | postmaster |
Ware, Marcus | proprietor, Eagle Hotel |
Whistnet & Ryan | flouring mill proprietors |
Williams & Day | general store |
Williams W. W. | proprietor of Exchange Hotel |
Willis B. G. | attorney at law |
Wyett, L. R. | blacksmith |
From George W. Hawes’ Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, for 1859 and 1860