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ABERDEEN (Butler Co.): On US231. Sandy's Rest. at the Aberdeen Truck Stop and Red Johnson's Gro. (c1975) Uninc. pop. (c1975)= c.150-200. Thriving commu. in c.1850s as riverboat town. Shipping pt. and nearby coal mines. Shipped x-ties. Decline with end of demand for x-ties and end of river transp. Also now: a coal tipple, used car lot, supermarket and several other stores. ("Aberdeen',' by Betty Higgins, PARK CITY DAILY NEWS, 12/17 1975, P. 1); A-s ,,-'{''(vl;~ -.h 5'''-'1. c.-i+t= ~cf ~ """'~ 'l)-e <2..;
ABERDEEN (Butler Co.'), J'o.est. 7/14/1871; Andrew Duncan •• Disc. 9/15/1873; Re-est. 7/141 1884, Wm. B. Cardwell ... (NA); ("Aeb/er/deen") Once a thriving coal town. DK W!)Y so named. No lit. to suggest origin of. the name or thai any early residents came from Aberdeen in Scotland. (Nyla Morgan; interview. 10/19/78) ;
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BANOCK (Butler Co';') I po est. as Daugherty, 7/14/1884:, Wiley R. Daugherty il1 his store. The po was moved 2/3/1886 3 mh' away to the site of what became the' Dexterville 110 (q;v) Later Daugherty and son, Owen and son-in-law, Ragland built ·a new store and est. the Banock po.' there. (C.M. White's info. supplied for article' on "D'exterville I Hist' 1. Sketches of Towns and Villages" of Butler Co. in GREEN R, REP. 4/5/1951); po est. 'as Banock, 10/27/1894 Owen Daugherty ••• lNA) (see ·Dexterville •••• ) VI''S':'" Iq.>~ (f''1.-'s)
BANOCK'· (Butler Co.): ("Baeri/ahk") ("Dahr/tee' =ii syl.) DK why tl)e P9 was re-el'lt. ~Sl Banock N ow: an active. Eastern 'Star ~odge B"ldg. and little e18,e. At one time a ,thriving commu. Noj a family name, there. (Nyla Morgan, 'interview, 10/19/1978); cf the D~ugh'er:ty twin13," sons of Enos Daugherty. He: il?, still living,· in his 801 with cl<3?I' mind; alld himself .a good source of info. DK how r.elated' to Wiley-, Locally stiU called Banock; (Ipid.); , ,
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(The) BIG BEND (Butler Co., Ky): section around which the Green R. "makes an ,almost complete loop as it meanders on its way through Butler into Muhl. (Co 's. ). Witlfin this loop is found some of the most fertile farm land in the area. Acres and acres of corn •..• " (Ellis Ford Hartford & James "Fuqua Hartford, GREEN RIVER GRAVEL, McDowell PU131rjJ cations, 198), P. ') 1;."-
Butler BLOWING SPRING (~axx Co., Ky): Acc. to Miller's Geol. of Ky., P. 220, this is a Butler Co. spring nr the Warren Co. line. "that at certain seasons is accompanied by an outrush of air, giving to it this approp. name. II
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BROOKLYN (Butler Co.) I po est; '1/10/1868, Geo. W. Elder ••• Disc. 775/1876; Re-est. 2/12/ 1877"Julian S. Phelps.· •• (NA); ("BrOok/Hhn": DK o'rigin of the name. Many li tit:J-.e brooks' or branches runthrU there. The Embrys.were fro! there ••• Was a thriving cOl)1mu. at one time. Not much there now but· a new Bap. chu. No store. Scattered pop. StLCl called that. Smith, Pleners came from tl:J.ere. (Nyla Morgan, interview, 10/19/1978); .
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CASEY (Butler CO.)I po est. 10/2/1919. Geo. Casey ••• (NA); ("Ka/zee") Named for the Case;., family and sti:).l called this. Many of that family still live there. Maybe Ed Lindsey's store still there. DK· Casey progenitor. Annual "Crazy Casey Days". a homecoming or reunion for hundreds of descendants. (Ny1a Moragn. interview, 10/19/1978); O·,·SOL I'1G('
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c>j.rc. /'fvy DECKER (Butler Co.). po est. 10/5/1904. John D. Decker; 3/30/1909. Cinda Decker.· •• (NA); ( "Dehk/ er") In the old days. there· were Decker families in the area but none now •. One seldom hears of this placean,ymoreo Faded away .• (Nyla Morgan, interview, .10/19/1978);
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,:0 i!;'~ DEX~RV.ILLE (Butler Co.). po est .asX;-, 19 (" Daughertv. 7/14/1884, Wiley Daugherty; ch. to Dexterville, 2/3/1886, Isaac·B. Dexter ••• (NA); (see Banock .... ) ("Dehx/ter/vihl") Never heard of any Dexters.around Dextervil1e Now. deteriorated b+dg. Little else. Was a small farm area •• ;tobacco. Now coal minin,g in the .area. (Nyla Morgan, interview, .10/19/1978
DEXTERVILLE (Butler Co.) I Named' for Ike Decker who owned the place. (A. Thatcher of Morgantown, Ky. in a letter "to Wm. G. Steel, 5/10/1922); c. 12 mi. n. of Morgantown. Named for two brothers, Isaac B. and Joe Dexter who arr. from Centertown, Ohio Co. in 1885 bought a big farm and opened a gen. store at the site The Daugherty po at Banock (g.v.) was moved to this store and re-est. as De'xtervi1le on 2/)/ 1886. This i's ) mi'.' from, Banock. The Dexters also owned a steam-powered grist mi11 ••• Nearby Mt. Vernon Bapt. Chu. was est. 181) •••• (From info. supplied by C.M. White, in "Dextervi11el Hist'1. Sketches of Towns and Vi11." serie's in GREEN,R. REP. */5/1951);
DIMPLE (Butler Co'~'): Robert Fisher opened a store at Old o,imple in IB97. W.P. Ruley. the storekeeper at nearby Richland petitioned for a po and. got one which was called Dimple. At that time the Factory po nearby was disc on-tinued. ("Factory:- Hist'l. Record of Towns & Villages in Butler Co." series in the GREEN RIVER REP. by Mrs. Edgar Kitchens; 8/28/1952) po est. as Dimple. ,3/31/1910 (?), Wm. P.Reiley (sic); 2/28/1918. Vi~gil Brooks ••• (NA) ("Dihm/pal") DK if 2 sites or where it got itE name. Now: dpo, not much left". S·till called this. (Nyla Morgan, inte:!:,view, 10/19/1978);
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DUNBAR (Butler Co.) PO and commu. as well. Boundaries: betw. ~eetown, S. Hill, Provo, & Morg. 4 mi. from Morg. Commu. was. there before the po was est. in 1898. Named for two families, Dunn & Barrow. PO was at different sites but within a i mi. radius. Now: only homes and old store. bldg.' used for storageO=' at the old site. CHe¥ep-eaHea-al'iytJ:i~l'ig-e*,'ee~ Called Big MUddy Commu. Big Muddy Chu. is still across from the p.o. Named for nearby Mud Creek. (p~, Dunbar, in a letter to me, 4/30/1980); l Mi'o5'- . .F~~I~~"'"
DUNBAR (Butler Co.') I po est. 4/19/1898. Richard L. McHenry • • Disc. 5/31/1912 (mail to Mo:rgantown); Re-est. 1/21/1913. Silas W. Barrow., •• (NA); _ ("Duhn/bahr n ) DK the origin of the name. A ,Mr. _ McKinney gav,e land there for a chu. Two sites. Families: MCKinneys. Kitchenses. Had a po. At the 1st site had a gr:o. store. Now: at 2nd site=8. sere sta. & gro. st ore. And further ,down is the chu.; 2 gro's •• used car lot. S~ill c?lJ,.ed this. Neve a local family by that name. A thriving place at one time. (Nyla Morg~n; interview, 10719/ 1978); S,ometime known as the Big Muddy Commu. for its location. (Ibid.);
DUNBAR (Bgtler Co.): No one seems to know the derivation except that there wal'll a man named Dunn and another named Barr, both well thought of. Now an APO in a gro. store. (Gladys Martin in letter to Delphine Haley, 7/7/1975); h-r\M'f' h...,,,, 1"-.-"'- C Po f.r "'" ~ 70 ,
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/ DUNBAR (Butler Co.) I. cf article on this place i~ the GRR. Most of the local po's were in grot stores tho' at least one was in a home when Silas Barrow was pm, near the present po site. (c. 1920s). Bake (?) Pendley kept the po in his .gen. stor.e on the old Mining City Rd. across from an old shop. The road is gone. The shop was run by Lee McKinney. At one time Ed Hatcher had the po bldg. and a sm~ll grot Hiram Kitchen then ran the po in endley's grOt store bldg. liirs. Annie Flowers had the po there too but moved it moved it to a nearby site. Gladys
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DUNBAR (Butler Co.): The place was also called Big Muddy Community for the Big Muddy Ba~. Chu. She~thinks it was named Dunbar when the ~was est. The chu. ,was cons~ituted in 1875 so it was ca~led Big Muddy Commu. since that time. That's all_she could tell me in her 2nd letter, sent 5/10/1980); "'WlY:['. e.=n.I·e....1?~+/e.. , I :i5- .. ;roo ~ 1rJ'00y .'3,\, p., UJ-vv.'F J , v~ \' ",,<H-.,
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ELFIE (Butler CO.)I c. 2 mi. se of Neafus. In the vic·. of Wilson Sch. which is now used as a residence. Wrongly applied on Spring Lick 7t m. top. map; should have been on the Welchs Creek 7t mi. map. It's on Welchs Cr., Rt. 2, Morgantown, Ky. cf Mrs. Iva Swift, a resident. (Acc'. to Dom. Geog-. Name Report submitted 6/14/71 by Chester Bojanowski);
po est. 9/10/1902, Geo. N. Vitato; Disc. eff. 4/15/1903 (papers to Neafus); Re-est. 1/14/09, Jas. E. Burden •• Disc. 4/29/1916 (mail to Neafus); Re-est. 1/19/1931, Geo. W. Smith ••• (NA);
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ELFIE (Butler Co.): ("Ehl!f'ee" ) Inf'ormant had neverJ:1.eard of' th;i.s until she began recording cemeteries. Long gone.' It may go by another ' name now but dk what. (I'lylaMorgan. interview 10/19/1978) ; , .
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F'ACTO~~ (Butler Co'.): PO est. at the Fuqua SprIng. Also an'ax handle ,factory moved here from Youngtown (later called Davenport). The'"
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FLAT ROCK (Butler Co.) : ("Flaet 'Rahk")You go through this vig. to ,get to Mining City. The rock was flat there. Now: to/ Roch. c. 1-2 niL before you get to l!unbar, you 'turn to th right and take, the roa<?- to M.C. The Flat Roc
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HUNTSVILLE (Butler Co.): c1950, it was in the center of the county's oil prod'n. At that timE had 3 chu's., 3 stores, a mill, sch. John Hunt son of Daniel Hunt and grandson of John Hunt, i
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HUNTSVILLE (B~tler Co.): ,( "Huhnts/vihl") DK which [,!.W1t. it was named for, ••• cf Albert Hunt. Salt La\(~ City. Utah or Edith, Bennett of Li vel more; ky, re the Hunt family. Now: 2-3 gro. ' stores, 'Meth., Bap •• and. Chu. of Christ. Very scattered settlement. Descendants ,of piqneer sett'lers are still the:r;-e--Meffords', Mealys. ' Porters. Arnolds. and Hammers. ,,(Nyla Morgan. interview, 10/19/1978); I",-~ :3 IY1 {f~f'-~ (A-c...-u {l?'n(~, \10/,'2." ~. ')..t7)j· Ci.-c,0V;, . , "
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JETSON (Butler Co.) I Jetson is now what is identified as Whittinghill on the maps but it has not always been. The po has changed locations several times over the years. The community is now also called Jetson. The 1st po was est. on Millshed Rd •. which is about 5-6 mi. from 'present site and is now included on Rt. 4, Morg. Rd. Named for J.E. Taylor & Son but dk the son's name. DK how related to Emsley L. Taylor. The lst.record informant coulc find of Whittinghill was in 1915. DK why so called. This name is no longer in use except on maps. Local people now. call their communitJ Jetson. Nowl apo, Whitti'nghill Gro., Temple Hill Bap. Chu. and c. 15 homes. (Ann Lucas, 0] Jetgon_ K,,_ 1"i:i:"l" i:n ml>_ Z;/6/1QRO),
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JETSON (Butler CO.)I Named for J.E. Taylor & son, partners in a local business. (A. Thatcher of Mor~antown, Ky. in 'a letter to Wm. G. Stee~, 5/10/1922); po est .. 4/21/1919, Emsley L. Taylor ••• (NA); (Jeht/san") DK the origin 'of the name. The Taylors d9 come from this section. But no local families of Jetson Still called this. (Nyla Morgan, interview, 10/19/1978);
o \~c.. l'Ib? LEE (Butler Co.) I po est. 4/4/1887. Francis M. Embry ••• (NA); ("Lee") Named for the Lee famil:y Little there now. On the n. side of Green R. Had a·store& po. (Nyla Morgan. interview. 10/19/1978) ;
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LOOANSPORT (Butle~ Co.): ("Iloh/ghclnz/ spawrt") (sic) l\.cc'. to.an 91d article in the Green R. Rep. (cant recall the date), Mr. Carson lived here and his beautiful old home is -still stand~ng; now oymed by Lena Gray Ann-ice._. Then: .there was a po, store, ferry across the. river. Carson owned much
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~-LOGANSPORT (Butler Co.): "The steamboat Logan froze up there one winter; hence, the name." (A. Thatcher of Morgantown, Ky. in a letter to Wm. G. Steel, 5/10/1922); po est. 5/5/1854, Thos. C. Carson ••• (NA); Commu. in the Big Bend of the Green R. The river "forms almost a complete'horse shoe' (sic), giving (that) name to (the section). NowlxSalem Bap. Chu., 1 rm. sch. hse, country store, & 2 homeE ViI. & po 1st located on the river and was dependent on river. The steamer "Capt. Logan" "during a severe cold winter in 1852 •• 1aid fast in the ice for some 8 or 10 weeks near Carson's Landing. The ice in the river froze
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Carson's Landing." PO est. 5/5/1854 with Thos. C. 9arson, pm •••• The po had a no. of locations in the vic •••• givesthe names of the postmasters •••• The Big Bend area was 1st called Anderson's Survey and later Anderson's Bend and_now Big Bend. The river almost surrounds this section. A.S. included "all the land from a point about the Big Hill and embraces the 3 commu's. of Science Hill, Big Hill. Lebanon & Salem. Records •• show that Anderson's Bend or a greater portion of it was granted to Jacob Borah for Rev. War services and he migrated
to this Green River country in 1810 •••• It was in these early days that Jacob Borah est. Borah's Ferry. Much has qeen written about the Borah family and the ferry after Sen. Borah of Ida. won such recognition and .fame as US _Sen. (sic) •••• " (descril'ies several other area P.o.'s--Noka, Borah ••• ) (q.v.) Salem Bap. Chu. org. 1838 •••• (from ms. prepared by the late Miss_Sallie Martin &-Jess Wilson, lifelong residents of L'port and repro. in the GRR, 3/27/ 1~52. J.L. Thomas (~/26/1980) brought the h~st. uptodate, Rich'd. Thomas retired
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Carsons Landing in use until c.1931. In 19th cent. :'all freight for the area was billed to Carson's Landing. Steamboat was called General Logan. It was 1st called Logan's-Port. Later the. p.o. was est. and was called Logansport. Later the po was moved c. 2 mi. out on US2Jl and is still there. Carson owned c. 1000 acres of farm land •••• (Wendell Annis, L'port, Ky. in a letter to me, ~/25/1980);
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;SUFEOLK (Butler Co.): On Mud Creek, above its L·mo.uth. On land owned by Thos. Reddick. On 5/1: /1817 he sold the land t9 Davi~ Tarrance (sic and the latt·er deeded it tq R .B} •. Dallam on W. 7/16/1817. Ace!'. to Deed Book B, p. 123, in th, Butler Co. Clerk's Qffice, th.is land containel the town. of Suffolk. Assumes this was! mile above the mouth .of Mud Creek at a place the rivermen called "The Bark Yard". Assumes tha· the town's industrial. base.was.the building 0: flatboats for travel on the Green R. but this is speculat ion •••• (From letter of S:S. McReYnolds, MD, of Russellville, Ky. to Judge Otis White, Morgantown, Ky. 6/12/1947 and
reproduced in GREEN R. REPUB. 9/4/1947); I another letter to Mrs. Mary Moon (1) of Bowl. Green, Dr. McR. ;3(1!;ates that r.ecords definitely loqate the·town at the site of Mining City, at the mouth of Mud Creek ••••
MINING CITY (Butler Co.): ( "Mah45> eyen/ih Vj Siht!ee") A river landil).g. "Once a thrivin~ . town betw. M'organtown &: Provo. Had coal mines in vic. and shipped coal from the landing. Had a ferry there'-Good farming land in the bott:om,i. Bluff~on the' other. siqe.,_Barnes Cem. one of' the oldest in the county is on the bluff. Local people have been view1ng UFO's there lately ...... These were underground',mines and are no longer active. Never heard of it called SuffoJ!]{. (Nyla Morgan" interview,-- 10/15 1978); po est. as Mining City. 11/27/1876. 'Elbridge P. Aspley ••• (NM ; "
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OISC. 1"'-'>-:3 MONFORDJ (Butler Co.') I po est. "5/1/1903. Veachel M. Coots •• Disc. 1/14/1911 (mail to Abe~deen); Re-est. 7/24/1913. WID. D.' Phelps; Disc. 5/15/1914 (mail to Aberdeen); He-est. 1/29/1929. James H. Hunt •.• (NA); ("Mahn/f-;)rd") DK origin of the name. Stilr locally called that. On the road betw. Morgantown & Brownsv. Belmont Chu. nearby. Not much there anymor~ .• Had been settled by the Hunts. Many of them lived there. Also Willises. Knows of no Mon~or livin& in the county. (Nyla Morgan. interview. 10/19/1978); (f- ..... 3;)
, MORGANTOWN (ffutler Co.): Named for the first white, child born there, Morgan Smith. (A. Thatcher of Mor~antown, Ky. in a letter to Wm. G. Stee~, 5/10/1922); 10/1810, a comm.'n. assigned to find a permanent seat for the newl est. co. "reported the selection of two acres (on land owned by) Christopher Funkhouser •••• It was" first called Funkh"ouser Hill •••• In June 1811, the Justices authorized the building of brick courthouse •.•• was chosen in 1811 to be the seat of govt •••• This site, being a part of a 60-acre tract donated and laid out as a town and to be named Morgantown, by one Christopher Funkhouser. (Christopher designated, that town of Morgan Town, Ky. be established. This de-
feats the theory that ~organtown was named after Morgan Smith, first child born in the town, for he was born in 1811. ••• ". M'town was founded in 1813. ("The first child born in the new town was Daniel Morgan Smith on Dec. 14, 1811. He became a prosperous farm er in the Brooklyn section, now buried in Smith Cern., nr. Brooklyn.)" (HIST. OF BUTLER CO., by Bennett F. Bratcher, Butler Co. Sesquicentennial 1810-1960, c.1960, np)
MORGANTOWN (Butler Co.) I .po est. 5/11/1:842, TAes. Il, Garson ••• (NA-); Lack of agreement on date of founding: 1811 o~ 1813. Descendants of Morgan Smith will tell you th~t it was named for Morgan Smith's child. N at all of Ed Manley's writings are accurate. Bennett Bratcher, a Lou. atty. who did his county hist. for th~ Centen., got his data from old issues of the Green R. Repub. Age c.SO. His father=(Andrew) Jack(son) Bratcher, also an atty. & eire. juq.ge., •• dted 1978 •••• An'other ' son=Rhoades Bratcher, a Fed. Judge .•••• He also died 1978.... (",awr/gh<Jn/toW1).") (Nyla Morgan inter-view, 10/19 1978); r'llC.I/GY~2-fl'${A,eTJ' /~'f2--Pi.); , '
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PROVO (Butler Co.): Refers to a commu. as well a~>a:':p.o. APO. Bounaaries of commu= Panther Cr on w, Green R.-on n,.-Hocker Hill on:e, Muddy Creek on s. It has e~panded. to the west to what is called the Charley' Branch. Lena Stall, Hardin Rone named it Provo when po was applied for and after city in ,Utah. Had school. The chu. was founded 1805 and moved to this commu. in 1837. School was held in the same log bldg. The 2nd bldg. for the chu. was erected in 1890 by Jas. H. Layne and, after several renovation: and additions, it is still in use. It is the 2nd,largest chu. in the county. The sch. close, in 1953 for consolidation. The bldg. was bough'
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REEDYVILLE (Butler CO.)I Named for its location on Big Reedy Creek. (A. Thatcher of Morgantown, Ky. in a letter to Wm. G. Steel, 5/10/1922); po est. 3/14/1860, Wiley Prewitt(~ ••• (NA); ("Ree/dee/vihl"r);. Close to what was called Honakers Ferry (~Hoh/na/k3z Fehr ee"). Some now cal.l:i,t Honaker. ("Hahn -a kern Now: thriving commu. nr. Re~dy Cr~ek. DK orig of name. She's never come across a local family of this name.'Farming·section. One of the older commu' s. in the county. (Nyla Morgg intervxew, 10/19/1978); Pil'c.·I~b ~;
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~' HISTORY OF ROCHESTER (is a mimeo. article in Alex'r. Cather'·s possession): 21 Rochesters in 20 states in US. Named by the direct descendants of John Rochester of the family of Rochesters in England. John was the'bro. to . Nathaniel who founded Rocheste~, NY. Both were active in Ky. in 1808. John was a trustee of the Danville Libr. and Nathaniel was appointed Director of the Wilderness Rd ••• ;"Wm. McDowell & his mother are said to have built up the business interests of the town. Transfer of Plot 62 in Roch. from Jas. G:. Pitts to Ann E. Redding i~ 1839 is in the co. records. Pitts had settled in Roch. in the early 1830s and had started the manu. of copperas (dye ),. He
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' ..... here until 1787 when a John Hanley forced them to leave when he. claimed the land was a part of his grant. -Acc:,. to Finley's LOGAN CO. HIST., a Mr. Rhodes was one of the earliest set~lers to come.to Butler Co. He came from Logan Co. and settled on Green R. at the moutlhof MUd R. in about 1786. (See' Collir for more on Roch •••• ) By 1900, Roch. was the mas:\; commercial point d::n the co. having a pop •. of about 1000. ,James Skiles of Bowling Green took the 1st boat thru Locks (sic) No. J and the 'people of the Roch. community in Muh1. Co •. (sic) named their town in his honor, Skilesville. Those people from the
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of the river named their town McCrarysville . (sic). (~he) selection of the site of Locks (sic) No. J was made by Gen. Livermore of the Corps. of Engineers •. He also was in charge of . the construction of the Locks (sic) and Dam. The 1st lock master was Thomas Bowles ••• " Also ~ timber shipping town wit~ logs rafted, down the river •. Churches in Roc~ ••• The Roch. article was wri tt'en or prepared in 1976. "The town was' built along the bank of Green R. but gradually crept back to higher ground to escape the frequent overflows •. Among.the 1st houses in Lower Town was the large square log hotel operated by a Mrs. Roberts from Russell
ville. This hotel burned one night and the st.ory is told that a man who was staying there had lost for some time the power of speech •. In the excitement and exertion resulting from the fire he regained the use of his v:oice •••. " Roch. had a pop. of 228 in 1870. This hist. was compiled by Howard Willis Vaughn •. "In 1976 it's ·not a busy town!' with bank, store, a rest .. , J churches sch., pop=4-00. Vol. fire dept.. (Made avail. for my examination by Alex'r .. Cather in interview. 8/8/1977);
····ROCHESTER (Butler Co.): Founded 1830. Its development greatly influenced by the building of the locks in 1836. Ac~. to Edward Manley, the site was 1st called "The Mouth" by pioneer settlers for its location at the mouth of Muddy R. (now Mud River). 1st settle built his home at this site. Later called Rochester for Lord Rochester of England. Thriving town for most of the century: river port with great promise but competition from roads and rr'ds thru neighborhing counties brought decline and virtual demise. Cyclone of 1917 and 3 subsequent fires •• " ••• Rochester su~fered a great catastrophe but would have bounced back but for the county's reluctance
to attach to more modern methods but f'or our faith in Green River." (sic) CHIST. OF BUTLER CO" by Bennett F. Bratcher, ButleI Co. Sesquicentennial 1810-1960, c.1960,. n.p.); lR-o ~~ ~ ~ r-o ~j'+ "1/.1':11 ylr:J c-
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,ROCHESTER (:S-utler Co';') I Pioneers first' called this "The Mouth" because the 1st settlement was at' the mouth of Mudd"y R. (now Mud River) about or just short of 17$0. With the gro"wth of settlement, Rochester was chosen as the 'name. No evidence that it was named for Lord Rochester of England.The ~ommunity later bec~e Skilesville (MuhJ McCrarysvill,e (Ohio) and Rochester (Butler). ••• S,teamboat port. The 1st busi. dist. of the commu,' was on the Butler Co'. ,side. A
,ferry over the'Mud R. to Muhl. Co. Roch. merch~nts moved' to higher ground several
hundred yards from the'site of the orig. settlement because of annual Gr~en R. floodings. • • • Ace:. to Philip Lamar Anderson, ROCHESTER THE WORLD OVER, 1931, chap. 3 on Rochester, Ky.' it was named for the family of Lord Rochester in England, some of whom, came to Bowling Green, Ky. others to Roch., NY. Growth due to the steamboat shipping on the river ••• Decline due to highway travel Half of the CBD destroyed by fire and never rebuilt.' Mills closed ••.• Town at Lock No. Green R.just above ,the mouth of Mud R •
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an:); timber port. -•• -. Ace':.- to an article by Miss- Georgia Willis, OWENS. MESS:. -8/9/ 1941, it was named by a direct descendant of John Rochester of the Roch. family of England. JohIi. was bro. to Nathaniel" founde of Rochester, rr.Y ..... Inc. 1839. acc. to Collins HIST. ( •••• ) (Edward Manley, "Rochester" in GREEN RIVER REPUBLICAN, series of articles on towns and viI.. of Butler Co. 1/4/1951, Pp. 1, 3);
ROCHESTER (Butler Co.·) I A large river town. No rr. Fl~ur mills, farming commu. at the confluer. of Mud & Green R's. From THAT LAST BOAT IN THE EVENING I A PROFILE OF,ROCHESTER, SKILESVILLE, AND THE MUD RIVER COUNTRY, by Wm. McClellan, c.19760 (On the early Roch. & Skiles. & Mud R. area and the Hunt settlement I@;,th much hist. & lore) ", Green R. Lock & D'am #J' is c;lften' calle the 'Rochester Lock &.Dam' although no part of it touches Roch. or Butler Co. ~t was built by J.H. Skiles who was also the ,1st to put a steam boat on Green R. and for whom Skilesville was named. Its construction was c'ompleted in 18J8 and @.long with the entire Green-Barren R. System was controlled by the State of Ky. until
-~ . 1838 (ch. date) when both rivflrs and their improv:ements were leased to the Green & Barren R. Navigation Co. In 1888, the Fel'l.Govt. purchased the unexpired portion of the lease from the navigation co. Both river systems have since been controlled by the US Army Cor of Eng. Henry .Simmons was the 1st lo.ck master of Lock &',Dam #3 ••••. There is much to be told of early.Skilesville •••• The state of Ky, granted"ownership of the J.and that was to be~ come Skilesville to Richard Martin in 1807. An old plat shows Us 2 hills to have been laid off with streets 60 feet wide •••• I d.k. if Mr. Martin was an absente~ owner of the
future'Skilesville site or not but I found no reference to him among accts. of early inhabitants. But the Wm. P. Luce family who bought all or part of his holdings appeared to have been influential and well known there for several decades prior to the Civil War ••. A combined residend:e and stoll'::e built by Jas.c G. Myers in 1860 ••••. The earliest building on the lower hill was the Wiley Brown Cottage built in 1845 .... " No index. Nothing said about Model Min(s).
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ROCHESTER (Butler CO.)I At Look No.3 on.the Green R. A short distance above the mouth of Mud R., across MUd -R •. from Skilesville. Pop. (1898)=0.1000. Incl. hamlets of Skylesville (sic) and McCrearysv.ille. Settledc.1837. Since then it was accla1med as an important trading & shipping pt. Timber •• '. (THE GREEN RIVER COUNTR: From Bowling G.reen to Evansville, edit. & oom:p. by W.P. Greene, Evansville, Ind., 1898, P. 67)'
PO est. 9/8/1843, Wm. MoD·owell ••• (NA); ("Rahchl ehs/ter U ) Controversy: dk if named for Lord Rochester family of England. DK if founded in 1830 or '37 .••• (Nyla Morgan, interview,10/19/ 1978) ;
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used interchangeably •. Store is gone now. The Youngs' came frc:>m Woodbury .and the Davenports from Rochester. DK which name it was called first.(~YU~townll) (Nyla Morgan, interview, 10/19/1978 , 1) ,'..0<:.. ,q(''L. .
SILVER CITY (Butler Co., Ky): Little remains of a·once busy commu. in sw part of the co. Acc. to Hazel (Mrs. Roy) McKinney, her father, Billy White "'always said that a fellow came in nere one time and bought. up a lot of timber and paid for it with silver dollars •• so they just named it Silver City.' Bill ran the local store till he died in 1956, age 82. A 2nd. store was operated by Richard Adams till he died c. 1975. The two stores are c. "200 yards apart." ("Silver
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~SIXES CREEK (Butler, Ofuio Co's., KY)I Named for Daniel Six or his family. The stream joins Indian Camp Creek nr. Gilstrap in Butler Co. Heads in Ohio Co. Ac~. to Judge L.L. Embry of Ohio Co., the Six family may have squatted on lahd in very early days and then left, with no record of ownership. But, acc. to another-source, the creek was named for Abe Six, the first settler •••• (GREEN R. REPUBLICAN, 9/11/1952)
SOUTH HILL (ffutler Co.) i p.O name for" the conllnl; nity of Bethel. PO est. 1890, Johnnie Holman. c. 4?J sq. mi. area=this commu.iI:st settled c. 1790. In 1890, Johnnie Holman bought 8 acres from Pressley Whitaker i- mi. .w. of Bethel Chu. He built his home on the south side of the hil and a small store near it. Pet. POD for a po in the store. Wanted to call it Bethel but anotherB'f3thel PO in Ky. So called it South Hill for its location on the south side of the hill But the Bethel name remained for the commu. it self; its.school, chu." , cem. also ,.bore" that name, ~ong before the po was e~t. A fa~in~ "~~un~ ty;' ••• (Mrs. Loucetta Wh~ taker Ph~ll~ps,
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/1817 he sold the land t9 David_ Tarrance (sic and the latt'er deeded it tQ R.B_~, Dallam on ~~ 7/16/1817. Ac«'. to Deed Book B, P, 123, in th Butler Co. G.lerk' s Qffic,e, th,is land containe the town,of Suffolk. Asspmes this was t mile above the mouth of Mud Creek at a place the rivermen called "The Bark Yard". Assumes tha' the town's industrial, base, ,was, the building 0: flatboats for travel on the Green R. but this is speculation •••• (Frqm letter of S~S. McReYnolds, MD, of Russellville, Ky. to Judge Otis White, Morgantown, Ky. 6/12/1947 and
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SUGAR GROVEj}-<'Butler Co.): Named for the fine sugar map~e trees there. (A. Thatcher of Morgantown, Ky. in a letter to Wm. G. Steel, 5/10/1922) I Est. 1851., PO est. as Locust Forest in 1832, John P. Carson. ch. to Sugar Grove in 2/19/1851, Nathaniel Porter. Named . for large sugar camp there and maple sugar and syrup weremade and sold there in large amts. before and after the C.W. Some ·of the old trees are still there. Had a store, MD, LittlE Muddy Chu • .- ]benezer Cbu .,and white and COlOI ed sChools. (GREEN RIVER REP.- 8/31/1950, P. 1: 7-8); 0 t"c.. I~ ~i
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TILFORD! (Butler Co.) I (F729ne) Named for the 1st pm, N.C.L. Tilford. who est. the p.o. (Ac~, to a letter from him to Wm. G. Steel. 4/24/192: and on file in Grayson Co" 'pns folder~); He wa: ne l84J or '44:. (Ibid.); po est • .11/11/1896. Geo. M .• Willis; 1/1J/1900 •. James W. Raymer ••• (NA); '(IITihl/f~dil) Local f.amily •. Vanishing tow: Seldom hear people refEr ·to it anymore. (Nyla Morgan, interview. 10/19/19.78 ) ;"1)($ c.. 1">3'1
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TURNERTOWN (Butler Co.) I - Thos. Turner left v. in late 18th or early 19th cent. and located at what would be'c'ome Turnertown Pr.ec. Had a large family. PO est. as aerO" s Lj ck. Ky • .... (Carlie Turner of QUality, Ky. "Hist'l.. Sketches I . TOwn. s and Villages I Turnertown, Ky. I
in GREEN RIVER REPUBLICAN, 3/15/1951, P. 1); Same as Berry's Lick. DK which name came 1st. Probably the latter. ("Behr/eez Lihk" )There was a salt lick there for the animals and latl a sa]t mine. A thriving xrds commu. at one time.Early settlers=the Forgys ••• Many Turners and Tanrrers lived-there. Store there now and one of the older cern's. in the -co .• and that's
it. BothL"names used to identify it. DK . which Berry it was named for "!Jud;.· they were an early family in the county ••.• Farming section. (Nyla Morgan, interview, 10/19/78
BERRY'S LICK (Butler CO.)I A notice in a Nashville, Tenn. newspaper appeared in 1820 signed by Richard B. Ballum of Butler Co. requesting ~ tchr. for BerI'i's Lick·. (HIST. OF BUTLER CO., by Bennett F. ~ratcher. Butler Co. Se~quicent. 1810-1960. c.1960. n.p.); po est. as Berry's Lick. 12/30/1839. Benjamin Porter ••. Disc. eff. 9/15/1924; Re-e st. 2/28/1925~ Ida Jones •• (NA)
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WELCHS CREEK (Butler Co.), On Ky. 105, mi~way betw. Caney & ~organtown. Named for its location on the headwaters of that stream. Slow early growth; spurt came with building of Ky. 105. c.1950 it had po, 2 gro., 1 gen. store, 1 garage, 2 fill. sta's., Lagrands Chapel Sch., 2 chu's. Farming commu. c1878, it was called Kill Time •••• (W.C. Embry, "Hist!J,rical Sketches: Towns and Villages: Welchs~Creek, Ky." GREEN RIV!ER REPUBLICAN, 4/12/1951); yo est. 6/10/1856, Mark T. Brown ••• Disc. 10/30/1860; Re-est. 5/7/1863, Labor] Legrand ••• (NA) ;
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WOODBURY (Butler Co.): An act to inc. thetJ;own of Woodbury (sic). No mention of any famil~ names therei~. Approved 2/18/1854 by G.A. (ACTS 1853/4, Vol. 1, P. 392); -tr6 W "- '<-e _ ,'v"
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, , I ' jW00PBURY (Butler Co.) I. po est. as Lock Number l 475/1847. T.hos. D. Carson; changed to Wood Berrv (sic). 5/6/1847. Thos. D. Carson:::Tlatel spelled W6odberrv) •••• (NA); ("Wood/behr/ee") a river town'. Some of the oldest buildings in th, county are here. DK the origin of the name. Wa: a thriving. commit. ,!it one time with its own ban] An even larger place than Morgantown. Families Finney. Hines; GibbE!. Sprowle •.•• Now: home and shop of Carman ,House. a gunsmith •••• He's set:,:, ting upa pioneer' viI. here ..• N ow: po ,chu' s • , grd. st ore,' commu. -bldg.. cem ••.• B eautiful old town. No longer a way,to cross the river there Used to be a ferry •••• Sh~ attribute; the name t,
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WOODBURY (Butler ,Co.), Woodbury has always been the correct spelling •. The commu. was known as Woodbury by 1839 w~en lock and dam was built and before the po was est. in 1847. Two homes 'still occupied that were built before 1825. Dam washed. away' o. 5/25/1965. Unti. then some riyer traffio & trade but nothing like in the 1910s, 20s. 309\, & early ~Os--i. e. the beginning of WWII. Knows Carman House but has not heard anything pf his plans for a pioneer viI. (Paul T. Smith, ietter to me, 4/30/1980);. '
WOODBURY (Butler Co.): The Lock & Dam, built 1839. and stores, sh9ps. and mills,preceded the est. ~kH)of the po in 1847. Assumes the orig. name was misspelled. Has heard that !"ijt was named for the first family that had set~l there. DK of any other name fOr it. DK if kin to the Carsons of Logansport. Now: one store & apo in the store_building. 39 families and 141 persons, 2 chu's. and a Masonic Lodge. 2-3 homes buiit before 1839 are stil~ standing. A~. park is being developed. (Ace. to a letter to meffrom Paul T. Smith, postmaster and store oper tor who lives I mi. s of Woodbury on the Ba ren R. where he was raised. His father was~rn (1879) and raised on the S"m" .p~~~ l{ I'l. 'I II~ 'Y n ~
I -'WQODBURY (Butler Co',) I At the confI. of Green
& Barren R's. On ~ doz. steep hills.' Windswept Hse., over~ cent. old, the refuge of Thos. Hines, the Confed. spy •••• (PARK CITY DAILY NEWS, 10/16/1960,' Noel Coppage" article on Windeiwept in ms. form in Butler Co. vert. file: WKU, Ky. Lib., examined by me, 9/1/1978); Rive] town. In 1965 the dam washed out. River traffic & trade all but "disappeared". Pop. declined. Or the s. bank of G.re'en R. nr. mouth of Barren R. Dam built' 1839 & ushered in 'prosperi'ty as ri vel port. Pop. peaked at 500 with bank, 2 hotels, MD, stores. Now (1972). only a gro.,& PO with
pop. of c. 160. Farmers and commuters. 2 churches. Paul Smith runs the gro and is pm. Woodbury Bapt. Chu. (David Sutherland, "The Little Town" LCJ MAG. 10/22/1972, Pp. 30-33);
WOODBURY (Butler Co.) (F484c) c. 20 mi. nw of Bowling Green off US231. pop(1970)=c.200. Commercial fishing operation there=only a fraction of what it once was. Once there was a busy hotel, now a rambling family residence (THE NEWS-DEMOCRAT, 4/30/1974, P. B4); Founde, 1856. "It, too, had been a beneficiary of the newly developed lock and dam and it too was a teeming bed of· activity with busy mills. and full hotels •••• " (Bennett F.Bratcher, HIST. OF BUn£RCO. Butler Co. Sesquicent. 1810-1960, c.1960, n. p. ); /",e:. "K118' {r'iJ l A ~ I ~s-~/'(, v· /. (>.::1'j~
WOODBURY' (Butler Co.): PO in Smith's Gro., in a frame bldg. by the Green R. Paul Smith= pm and store.owner, since 1963. The store's beEm there for 94 years. ("Woodbury P.O. is Social C:enter" PARK' CITY DA~LY NEWS, 5/21/ 1978, P. Bl);.
We assume that this place was named for its location in a heavily forested area since there are no references in Census or cern. listings to families of Wood, Woodbury, or Woodberry.
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YOUNGTOWN (Butler Co., Ky.) A community 5.6 km. 0.5 mil ssw of Morgantown, Butler Co., Ky. 37°10'53"N,86°43'07"W Var.=Daven:port. Given on the Morgantown Quad. top. map. t 7ft min.) "Submitted to establish a name reported in local use; Davenport is the voting precinct of which this local~ty is only a part; the county clerk and the county attorney agree that Davenport is the incorrect name for this commun~ty; the variant appears on AMS, USGS and county maps; no P.O. "(Ace. DOCKET #183, released 2/12/1974 for consideration at the 3/12/1974 meeting of the US BGN). ,L ," 0<1- c..-;s ,'"vv.- ""'"' ~~.
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:1yt%~e~::en;: :t~az' Bernwefl,F. Bratch6r.II.,Nl'Islt~ ville, TN. Mn.- Mary Arm KInman, ~fdlmOnd, KY, MId Lin: dO] Marie BratCher;'slep-son of Mrs. VIrgInIa Br8/chel", Morgenlown, KY; brotlter _of John v., BraTcher, Bowling G;een, KY, Mrs. Laura Ol!l~rty, Mrs. Cafolo. Arnold. Visiting III Poarson's. 149 9recklnrlctge,Ln. from-2·4 & 6-9 p.rn,; Tltur~ with funerl!i at IO.a.m .• Fri. Mr Bratch(l:l" wUI be leken ro'ihe Sm!thFunerel Home, MOrQantown, fV'- for visiting from 6-10 !).i'Yl •• Fri. where funeral se(VlCM will ba conducted'l p.m., sat. foOowed by'burlal In RIv(!rvlow'Cemc-
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