Knox Historical Museum

The Knox Historical Museum is now selling the 2017 Barbourville History Calendar, which will be available for $10 each during the 2016 Daniel Boone Festival. The calendars will sold beneath a tent beside the festival's information booth in front of the courthouse.

The Museum staff will also be selling calendars for 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. The cost is $5 each for these older calendars.

There's new website on the Web that should interest anyone interested in Kentucky history and/or genealogy.

It's called the "Kentucky History and Genealogy Network" and can be accessed at the following address: kentuckyhgn.org.

Recent posts of interest to Knox Countians focus on the Gray and Lynn Camp communities.

The article about Gray and Rossland, Kentucky is titled "A Post Office, a Castle, a Judge, a Law Suit, a Louisville Capitalist and Brafford Store."

The Museum's staff continues to add to the new "Churches of Knox County, Kentucky" section.

These additions bring the total churches now featured to 11, including the following: Artemus First Baptist, Barbourville First Christian, Concord Baptist, First Baptist on Third and Church Streets, Heidrick Holiness, Keck Baptist, Pleasant Ridge Baptist, Richland Christian, Sinking Valley Baptist, Trace Branch Methodist, and Springfield Baptist.

The next time you drive around the Court Square in Barbourville, Kentucky, please take notice of the old Magic Theatre's red, yellow and blue marquee. And know this: the marquee, which dates back to 1941, was nearly demolished just a few short months ago.