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Historical Museum Hours
The Knox Historical Museum is closed for Christmas and New Year's.
During the coming holidays, the museum will be CLOSED on Dec. 21st and 28th during Christmas and New Year's.
The museum reopens Wed., January 4, 2023.
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."
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.
KHM now open on Wednesdays
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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?