Knox Historical Museum

Information sought about the Barbourville Brickyard and its employees.

The Knox Historical Museum is in need of photos and information concerning the Barbourville Brickyard from its inception in 1905 until its closing in 1957. The photos and/or information needed include: 

Vol. 28 No. 2                 2016 Summer Edition

• From Segregation to Integration: Common Schools of Knox County, KY, by Samuel L. Davies
• The Home Front in Southeastern Kentucky during the Civil War: My Mother, Samantha Sharp Faulkner, Part 3, by Judge Henry Cook Faulkner
• Samantha Faulkner’s Christmas Story, by Judge Henry Cook Faulkner
• Andrew Johnson in Barbourville, by Charles Reed Mitchell
• Meet the Museum Staff: [7]  Nancy Hampton
• 73rd Daniel Boone Festival, 2021, by Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 28 No. 1                 Spring 2016      [24 August 2021]

The Parker Mercantile Co. Building, by Charles Reed Mitchell and Michael C. Mills

The Home Front in Southeastern Kentucky during the Civil War: My Mother, Samantha Sharp Faulkner, Part 2, by Judge Henry Cook Faulkner

James Faulkner Thomas, Family Historian, by Emily Dawn Clark

Meet the Museum Staff: [6]  Patricia Gambrel

Knox Central Wins Unprecedented Third Regional Basketball Title, by Michael C. Mills

Editor's Notes: The following article was taken from WKYT-TV  about the the old Parker Building in Barbourville, whereby a wall section fell on June 7, 2021 and the building was becoming the victim to the wrecking ball. The Parker Building  was initially erected in 1909 but became the home of the Union National Bank in the early 1920's.

The  Parker Building also once contained a dentist and a library, both on the second story. A ballroom and meeting room for clubs, such as the the Moose Club, were held on the third story.