Knox Historical Museum

The Fall issue of the Knox Historical Museum's quarterly magazine, the Knox Countian, edited by Charles Reed Mitchell, is now available for purchase at the Museum in Barbourville or via the online Museum Store.

The cost per magazine at the museum is $3 while the cost via the website is $3 plus 6 percent sales tax and a $1.25 shipping fee.

A summary follows below for Volume 28-3.

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