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Knox County, KY communities' stories and photos

Knox County, Kentucky has several top-notch Facebook groups representing several communities that are filled with stories and photos.
These groups currently include the following: Knox County, Ky. History and Genealogy; Heidrick; Stinking Creek; and Swan Pond.
First Pentecostal Church of Barbourville Photos

Shirley Jones Garmon of Cleveland, Tenn., recently donated several digital photos to the Knox Historical Museum. Included were two indoor photographs of the church on North Main Street in Barbourville in the late 1960s. Click on photos below for enlargement. Additional photos and articles about the church are welcome.
Map of Knox County communities/neighborhoods in 1948

This 1948 map of Knox County, Kentucky's communities and neighborhoods was published in the Barbourville Mountain Advocate newspaper on July 1, 1976.
Civil war veteran "Colonel" George F. Bretz of Barbourville

BY DAVID COLE
One of the joys (and frustrations) in researching the past is bringing to life Knox Countians that appear to be long forgotten except for a few kinfolks on Ancestry.com. This writer stumbled across an interesting Mountain Advocate newspaper clipping floating around at the Knox Historical Museum. The article was published in April 1915 and announced the death of a George Frederick Bretz, who was known locally in Barbourville as "the Colonel."
Knox Countian features Governor James D. Black

The winter issue of the Knox Historical Museum's quarterly magazine, The Knox Countian, is now available for purchase at the Museum or the Advocate, both located in Barbourville, or via the online Museum Store at knoxhistoricalmuseum.org. The cost per magazine at the museum or Advocate is $3 while the cost via the website is $3 plus 6 percent sales tax and a $1.25 shipping fee.
Upcoming Events
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Knox Museum Closed for Rest of 2020
Planned date for reopening is Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
What Our Patrons Have to Say...
I am completing a history of the Knox County courthouse on website www.courthouses.co. Could you provide me a list of the dates that previous courthouses were built in the county. Thank you.
I would like two of your calendars
I'm interested in Wilder surname, particularly pre-1830. Do you have Wilder records in this time period? Thanks!
Thank you for posting the General Tye King interview to your website this summer. It has been a pleasure to listen to those two old friends talk about their past.
My ancestors are the George Bunch family from Knox Co Ky. I would like to know what information there is about them. I am also related to the Trosper family too from Knox Co. Both families came to Missouri and settled. Thank you.