Knox Historical Museum

Here's the museum's collection of the covers of catalogs from the Daniel Boone Festival in Barbourville, Kentucky.

The KHM's collection contains nearly all the catalogs from 1961 through the present and one program from 1954.

Two new issues of The Knox Countian magazine, under the guidance of editor Charles Reed Mitchell, were published this summer.

Both issues are available for purchase in the Knox Historical Museum's online Museum Store, which is found under the "Support Us" tab..

The following lists the contents of both issues.

Several active staff members and board directors of the Knox Historical Museum met June 21, 2017 to discuss a wide range of topics, including establishing a building fund to ensure the museum's future. More on this in the near future as committees research and plan.

William M. Dishman, Jr., a member of one of Knox County’s most distinguished families and longtime friend of the Knox Historical Museum, passed away 29 November 2016 at the age of 80. Whenever business occasioned a return to Barbourville from his home in Danville, Kentucky, where he practiced law for some 48 years, Bill made it a point to visit the museum. As museum staff member David Cole recently observed, former residents who return to find downtown Barbourville changed and adjusted to the times can find the Barbourville of their memories at the museum. Bill often would spend several hours talking and reminiscing with the editor and museum staff about his family and his earlier years in town.