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The Knox Historical Museum closed to the public March 31, 2023, temporarily, due to the Municipal Building, in which the museum is housed, having scheduled a complete renovation, including removal of all internal structures.
The museum has not closed as an institution and will continue research and genealogy services via e-mail and postal mail, but we are not permitted to have public traffic in our temporary facilities.
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U.S. Postal Service:
Knox Historical Museum
PO Box1446
Barbourville, KY 40906
The Knox Historical Museum needs to move its entire collection.
This temporary move is due to the planned complete renovation of the Barbourville Municipal Building taking place in the spring of 2023 and beyond.
The Knox Historical Museum, Inc. is a 501(c)-3 nonprofit organization that operates from the generous donations of patrons and from the sale of items calendars, books, and other items from its Museum Store.
If you'd like to make a donation to help us with the expenses incurred by the Museum to move its collection, you may make a safe and secure online donation using our PayPal account by clicking on the Donate button below. You do not need to have a PayPal account to make a donation.
You may also make a donation by check. Please make your check payable to Knox Historical Museum and write 'Donation' in the memo line and mail it to:
Knox Historical Museum
PO Box 1446
Barbourville, KY 40906
The Knox Historical Museum continues as always to appreciate our generous donors for their gifts. Your gift will be used for our daily operational purposes and will be classified as unrestricted funds unless otherwise indicated. Donors will be provided with a receipt of their donation and a huge thank you.
Our Museum is staffed by Volunteers and our hours of operations currently are such that our Volunteer staff members are only able to check for Online Orders once per week. Typically on either Tuesday or Thursday.
This means that online orders may not be shipped for up to 10 days after your order is placed. PLEASE give our Volunteer staff the time to process your order and ship it out to you. We will do our best to ship all orders as quickly as possible. Before you ask PayPal for a refund due to non-shipment, please send us an e-mail first to ask about your order's status.
Thank You!
Photos and history of the early years of the Catholic Church in Barbourville, Kentucky. Note: Last sentence in article is cut off. The full sentence at the bottom of the fourth page is as follows: "It is daily meeting its challenges."
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.
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.
This 1948 map of Knox County, Kentucky's communities and neighborhoods was published in the Barbourville Mountain Advocate newspaper on July 1, 1976.
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."
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How do I order drawer 2 on the Begley family gistory file
I would like to see family and friends sharing old Powell photos and info. Thank you!
Dennis Powell
Having difficulty trying to subscribe to emails on your site. It goes to a unsupported page. Also, do I need to pay $20 subscription to do a search on your page? Or to sed newsletters? Thanks Nancy
I would love to purchase michael's
pictorial look back publication
saw a pic recently of Greenroad School 1914, but cant find it now. How could I get a copy of the picture?