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Visit the Knox Historical Museum's extensive
collection of photographs.
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.
The Barbourville Utility Company is providing 1977 flood photos and current river levels at the following web address: http://barbourville.com/flood-wall-management. See Flood Wall and River Level link at bottom of website page.
The city's floodwall was raised approximately 10 feet following the devastating 1977 flood. Torrential rain fell from April 2-5 that year, causing devastating floods across southeast Kentucky that killed 10 people.
The Knox Historical Museum (KHM) recently received copies of employment records from the old Kentucky-Jellico Mining Company which mined in Knox County, Kentucky.
The employment records cover a time period from 1940 to 1951. The records also include a reference to the Kay Jay Local Union Number 6068.
Editor's Note: A conversation held on January 27, 2018 during dinner at Joyce Gander Cole's home in Apple Grove in Knox County, Kentucky, brought forth fond memories of the late Wilma Wahlstedt, who died in 1997 and is buried in the Barbourville Cemetery.
On Friday January 26, 2018, actor Kevin Hardesty portrayed Daniel Boone; then following, Actress Betsy Smith portrayed Jemima Boone at the Barbourville Middle School to the 8th grade class.
The Knox Historical Museum houses a copy of an anthology focusing on Appalachia that was compiled through the cooperative efforts of Union College instructor Linda Oxendine and the members of The History of Appalachia Class in the fall semester of 1988.
KHM now open on Wednesdays
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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I would like to see family and friends sharing old Powell photos and info. Thank you!
Dennis Powell
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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?