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Knox Historical Museum

History & Genealogy Center

Established 1987 in Barbourville, Kentucky
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Note: Most articles without author attribution are by the editor or compilations from older texts

Volume 11 - 1999

Vol. 11 No. 1 - Spring 1999

  • In the Midst of the Storm: The Goldens of Knox and Bell Counties, Part 1, by Richard Davis Golden
  • Terror at the Knox County School Fair: The Killing of Levi Lee, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Decker Manuscript on the Internet, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Kentucky History Center, An Overwhelming Experience

Vol. 11 No. 2 - Summer 1999

  • United States Congressmen from Knox County, Kentucky, by Michael C. Mills
  • In the Midst of the Storm: The Goldens of Knox and Bell Counties, Part 2, by Richard Davis Golden
  • Civil War Roundtable: Union College Institute Focuses on "The War in the Mountains," by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Bookshelf: Food for Thought, reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens

Vol. 11 No. 3 - Fall 1999

  • A History of the Corbin Presbyterian Church, by R. Springer Hoskins
  • The Barbourville Presbyterian Church, 1888-1938, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Corbin Genealogical Society, by Connie Danner
  • Governor Patton Honors Dr. Thomas Walker's 1750 Expedition, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Bookshelf: Ghosts in the Hills, by Sean Jump; reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens

Vol. 11 No. 4 - Winter 1999

  • Barnstorming the Hills in 1920: The Jellico, Pineville and Barbourville Aero Clubs, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Ben Golden at the Colson-Scott Gunfight: Another View, by L.F. Johnson
  • Museum Bookshelf: Gateway: Dr. Thomas Walker and the Opening of Kentucky, by David M. Burns; reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens

Volume 12 - 2000

Vol. 12 No. 1 - Spring 2000

  • Knox County, Mother of Mountain Counties, A 1926 History of Knox County, Kentucky, by Kenneth H. Tuggle
  • The Fate of Levi Lee's Killer, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Civil War Roundtable 2000, by Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 12 No. 2 - Summer 2000

  • Michael C. Mills Talks About Historical Photographs, Interviewed by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • An 1833 Wilderness Road Theatrical Tour, by Sol Smith
  • Blunder or Justice? Knox Countians Protest the Indian Treaty that Destroyed a Community
  • Walker 250th Anniversary Celebration, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Bookshelf: Barbourville and Knox County, by Michael C. Mills; reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens

Vol. 12 No. 3 - Fall 2000

  • Shots Were Only a Small Detail of a Public Health Nurse's Job, by Mary Browning
  • The Best Books on Knox County, by Michael C. Mills
  • Union College Historical Marker Unveiled
  • I Remember Aunt Mary (Mary Browning), by Susan Congleton Slusher

Vol. 12 No. 4 - Winter 2000

  • The Woodson Family House, An Historic Home, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Bookshelf: Creeker: A Woman's Journey, by Linda Scott DeRosier; reviewed by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • George Owens and the Owens House Museum
  • "Beautiful Barbourville" — A Bouquet from the 1890s

Volume 13 - 2001

Vol. 13 No. 1 - Spring 2001

  • Clarence Ossie Burch: On the Burma Road with Merrill's Marauders, A Summary Essay of a William Sherman Oxendine Interview, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Clarence Ossie Burch: Athlete and Soldier, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Bookshelf: My Sister Marilyn, A Memoir of Marilyn Monroe, by Berniece Baker Miracle and Mona Rae Miracle; reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens

Vol. 13 No. 2 - Summer 2001

  • Some Didn't Come Back: Sergeant Jackie J. Mullins, Jr., by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Trosper School, by Beverly P. Miracle
  • Play Review: Last Train to Nibroc, by Arlene Hutton; reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens
  • The Art of Story, Union College Institutes 2001, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Battle of Dreux, France, by Sam Isaacs
  • Lt. Sam Isaacs, by Paul F. Isaacs
  • The Real Daniel Boone, by Charles Thompson

Vol. 13 No. 3 - Fall 2001

  • Biographies of the Doctors of Knox County, Kentucky, 1800 – 1940, Part 1, by Dr. Leslie Logan
  • The Barbourville Croquet Club, An Interview with Keith Wilson
  • On September 11th the Importance of History "Went Up in Importance a Great Number of Notches," by Scott New
  • Museum Bookshelf: Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky, by William Lynwood Montell; reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens
  • The Dr. Thomas Walker Cabin and Other Owens Family Paintings, by Margaret Jean Owens

Vol. 13 No. 4 - Winter 2001

  • Dr. William Burnside, by Cecil Byrley
  • Biographies of the Doctors of Knox County, Kentucky, 1800 – 1940, Part 2, by Dr. Leslie Logan
  • A Few Reflections on Dr. Logan's "Doctors of Knox County, Kentucky," by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Lincoln Memorial University Medical College
  • Museum Bookshelf: I Am With You Always: Experiences of a Nurse-Midwife in Appalachia, by Peggy Kemner; reviewed by Connie Danner
  • Garfield Gilliam's Tourist Courts

Volume 14 - 2002

Vol. 14 No. 1 - Spring 2002

  • Randall "Scotty" Hudson and the Blue Rays Orchestra: A Big Band Sound in a Small Community, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Perils of City Government: Thomas Jefferson Pitzer, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Ernest Grisham and the Union College Band, by Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 14 No. 2 - Summer 2002

  • Stars Over the Mountains, Corbin Actors and Other Regional Television, Radio and Movie Celebrities, by Margaret Jean Owens and Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Dr. Archibald Leger and the Shootout at Poplar Creek, by Pauline Leger Alford and Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Visiting Knox County in the 1880s, by Mildred Cass Beason
  • The Adonijah Fox Homestead and Cemetery
  • Up the Creek with Dr. Arch Leger, A Story of a Storyteller's Obsession, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Bookshelf: The Mouse Hunter: A West Virginia Memoir, by Gaynelle Straight Malesky with Lann A. Malasky; reviewed by Randy Bacon

Vol. 14 No. 3 - Fall 2002

  • Restored Wilderness Road Opens at Cumberland Gap, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Knox Countians at War, World War II: Clinton Mills, by Michael C. Mills and Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Bookshelf: Dark and Bloody Ground, by Mary Bolte; reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens;
  • Kentucky's Civil War, 1860-1865, Vol. 1, reviewed by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Scott New on History and the American Character Kudzu, by Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 14 No. 4 - Winter 2002

  • The Barbourville Volunteer Fire Department, Part 1: Early Fire Fighting and the Origin of the Company, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Mr. Fire Department: Bert Churchill, by Freida Churchill LeRoy, Richard Churchill LeRoy, Marjorie Churchill Kirk, and Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Where We Lived, Growing Up in the Churchill Household, by Marjorie Stuart Churchill Kirk
  • A Brief History of Meadow Creek Community (1933), by C.A. Johnson

Volume 15 - 2003

Vol. 15 No. 1 - Spring 2003

  • The Great Louisville Flood of 1937, by Bert Churchill
  • Knox County and the Great Flood of 1937, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Barbourville Volunteer Fire Department, Part 2: The Great Depression, The Early Years, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Bookshelf: What the Moon Knows, Poems, by Sue Scalf; reviewed by Connie Danner
  • The Hermina Brinkmeier Collection, by Maxine H. Jones

Vol. 15 No. 2 - Summer 2003

  • "The Young Republicans Club," A Photographic Oxymoron, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Barbourville Volunteer Fire Department, Part 3: Surviving the Great Depression, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Tepper Brothers Store: History of a Business Location, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Hensley Settlement, by Connie Danner

Vol. 15 No. 3 - Fall 2003

  • C.A. West and the Turbulent Twenties at the Knox County Jail, by Archie B. West
  • Knox County Women in Public Office from 1920 to the Present, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Play review: The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone, by Scott New; reviewed by Hugo A. Freud
  • The Battle of Barbourville, Reenactment Photos

Vol. 15 No. 4 - Winter 2003

  • The Mountain Woman: Silent Movie Filmed on the Cumberland River, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Escape from the Serials: Pearl White's Fox Feature Films, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Pearl White Company, Filmmakers on the Cumberland River, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • C.A. West's Family Photographs, by Archie B. West
  • Remembering Ron Rosenstiel, by Charles Reed Mitchell

Volume 16 - 2004

Vol. 16 No. 1 - Spring 2004

  • Carl J. Helton, A Military Life: An Interview by Clarence Ossie Burch, transcribed by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Reception of The Mountain Woman in Southeastern Kentucky, by Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 16 No. 2 - Summer 2004

  • Barbourville Post Office Bicentennial, Part 1, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • My Early Years, 1921-1939, by Carl J. Helton
  • A Cartoon as History: 1912 Political Caricature, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Barbourville Postmasters from 1804 to the Present

Vol. 16 No. 3 - Fall 2004

  • Dr. Thomas D. Clark, 1903-2005, by Barbara Evans Melton
  • Barbourville Post Office Bicentennial, Part 2, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Introduction to Military Service, by Carl J. Helton
  • Dr. Thomas Walkers Comes Back to Knox County

Vol. 16 No. 4 - Winter 2004

  • The Storied Life of Edward Fletcher Arthur, by Connie Danner
  • Captain Carl J. Helton, Company A, 17th Armored Infantry Battalion, Part 1, by Carl J. Helton
  • Museum Bookshelf. Panther Rock, by Aril Bond Burr, reviewed by Connie Danner
  • The Berlin Wall, by Carl J. Helton

Volume 17 - 2005

Vol. 17 No. 1 - Spring 2005

  • Susan Arthur, 1914 – 2005
  • Captain Carl J. Helton, Company A, 17th Armored Infantry Battalion, Part 2, by Carl J. Helton
  • Museum Bookshelf. Ghost Riders, by Sharyn McCrumb, reviewed by Margaret Jean Owens
  • Museum to Form Knox County Genealogy Division; Knox County Genealogical Society Closes
  • Haze Mills, the Picture Man
  • Winter Fun on Ball Hill, by Susan Congleton Slusher

Vol. 17 No. 2 - Summer 2005

  • A Knox Countian at MacArthur's Side in the Philippines: Paul Williams and the Williams Family Servicemen in World War II, by Archie West and Elizabeth Johnson Conrad
  • Jackie Jordan, Model and Hollywood Actress, by Jo DeLozier with Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Collins' 1847 Description of Knox County, Kentucky, by Lewis Collins
  • Biographical Supplement No. 6 to Knox County, Kentucky: History and Families. Includes Edward H. Black, George Fleming and Sarah Holland Dozier, George Washington Hutton, May Koontz, Martin, Paul S. "Pete" and Margaret Dale Moore, George W. Newman, Oscar R. Parsons and William Franklin Wilson
  • Who Was William Faulkner Rushton of the Union College Rushton Award? by Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 17 No. 3 - Fall 2005

  • Rural Knox County, Kentucky Post Offices, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Knox County, Kentucky Postmasters, Part 1, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Knox County, Kentucky Post Offices: An Official U.S. Postal Service List
  • Mary Browning, Portraits of a Public Health Nurse
  • Bim and Bull, the Yoke of Oxen that Gave Us the Name "Bimble"

Vol. 17 No. 4 - Winter 2005

  • More Rural Knox County, Kentucky Post Offices, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Knox County, Kentucky Postmasters, Part 2, by Charles Reed Mitchell and Michael C. Mills
  • Cannon Post Office, by Jakalyn Jackson
  • Portraits of Ruth Sanders, by Anna Lois Sanders and Margaret Jean Owens
  • Boss Hog at the Gatliff Farm

Volume 18 - 2006

Vol. 18 No. 1 - Spring 2006

  • Girlhood Memories of Barbourville in the 1920s and 1930s, by Catherine Faulkner Singer
  • Catherine Singer's Barbourville, map by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Randall "Scotty" Hudson's Barbourville Map (1934)
  • Gator Country, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Museum Opens New Genealogy Division
  • Homeward Passage: 2006 Daniel Boone Festival Theme (Lewis and Clark Expedition)
  • Demolition of the Old Barbourville Cumberland River Bridge, 1968, by Clinton Congleton
  • Indictments for Treason During the Civil War at Barbourville, KY, by Clinton Congleton

Vol. 18 No. 2 - Summer 2006

  • Union College Class of 1926's History of Barbourville, Essays 1 – 5, ed. C.R. Mitchell
  • Contents: UC Class of 1926's History of Barbourville, 30 essays
  • Abigail E. Weeks, "Originator of a Host of Good Things," by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Creation of the Susan Arthur Historical Preservation Award, by Connie Danner
  • Living With Santa, by Susan Congleton Slusher
  • Museum Bookshelf: Kentucky Explorer on Indian Attack on John Tye Party, by C.R. Mitchell

Vol. 18 No. 3 - Fall 2006

  • An Evening With Silas House, Part 1, "The Road to Becoming a Writer," by Silas House
  • Museum Bookshelf: Clay's Quilt, by Silas House, reviewed by Ina Mitchell Gatliff
  • Union College Class of 1926's History of Barbourville, Essays 6 – 10
  • Abigail E. Weeks and the Student Historians, Part 1, by Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 18 No. 4 - Winter 2006

  • Freedom Baptist Church at Caney Fork of Straight Creek Church Records, 1845 – 1895, by Margaret Jean Owens
  • Union College Class of 1926's History of Barbourville, Essays 11 – 15
  • Abigail E. Weeks and the Student Historians, Part 2, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • An Evening With Silas House, Part 2, "A Kernel of Truth Loaded With Fiction," by Silas House
  • Museum Bookshelf: A Parchment of Leaves, by Silas House, reviewed by Connie Danner

Volume 19 - 2007

Vol. 19 No. 1 - Spring 2007

  • Finding Barbourville's Civil War Bridge As Researched from Knox County Land Records, by Michael C. Mills and Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Eyewitness Accounts of the Battle of Barbourville, First Civil War Conflict in the State of Kentucky
  • 1890 Map: Barbourville Bridge and Streetcar Route
  • Creation of Broadway as Part of the Barbourville Streetway Line, by Mills and Mitchell
  • Union College Class of 1926's History of Barbourville, Essays 16 – 20
  • Dishman Flats, by Michael C. Mills and Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 19 No. 2 - Summer 2007

  • Thomas D. Clark at the Daniel Boone Festival, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Margaret Jean Owens Dies, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Union College Class of 1926's History of Barbourville, Essays 21 – 25
  • Genealogy Division adds Email
  • Museum Bookshelf: The Coal Tattoo, by Silas House, reviewed by Dr. Hugo Freund

Vol. 19 No. 3 - Fall 2007

  • Barbourville Civil War Interpretative Park: The Battle as Described in the History Panels, by Joseph E. Brent
  • Barbourville Civil War Interpretative Park Opens, a Brief History of a Park, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Union College Class of 1926's History of Barbourville, Essays 26 – 30 (End of Series)
  • How an Englishman Became a Member of the Knox Historical Museum, by David Crute
  • Sol Warren Wins Susan Arthur Award
  • Museum Bookshelf: My Century in History: Memoirs, by Thomas D. Clark, reviewed by Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 19 No. 4 - Winter 2007

  • A Personal Account of the Normandy Invasion, by Lt. General Elvy B. Roberts
  • Growing Up on Knox Street in the '40s, by Sue Scalf
  • Museum Bookshelf: Poems of Sue Scalf, Ceremony of Names, South by Candlelight, Bearing the Print, reviewed by Connie Danner
  • The Packhorse Library in Knox County, by Jakalyn Jackson
  • Michael C. Mills Wins Susan Arthur Award

Volume 20 - 2008

Vol. 20 No. 1 - Spring 2008

  • The Bailey-White Feud, Episode 1 (Letcher and Perry White), by Dr. James Bailey
  • The Baileys of Knox County, by Dr. James Bailey
  • The Legend of Crews' Gold, by David W. Owens
  • Kentucky Authors Read from their Books at the 5th Annual Redbud Festival

Vol. 20 No. 2 - Summer 2008

  • Riding the Barbourville Streetcar With Mike Mills, by Michael C. Mills
  • The Bailey-White Feud, Episode 2 (The Murder of Levi Lee), by Dr. James Bailey
  • Founding Fathers of Knox County, Kentucky: The Ballingers, by Michael C. Mills
  • Touring Old Barbourville by Streetcar, by Michael C. Mills and Charles Reed Mitchell

Vol. 20 No. 3 - Fall 2008

  • James Barbour: What We Knox About the Founder of Barbourville, by Michael C. Mills
  • The Bailey-White Feud, Episode 3 (The Murder of Beverly P. White), by Dr. James Bailey
  • Barbourville and Knox County Visitor Center Opens, by David Cole
  • Present at the Inception of the Daniel Boone Festival, by Lorene Perkins
  • David and Betty Cole Win Susan Arthur Award, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • Lend-a-Hand Students Visit the Museum, by Connie Danner
  • Museum Scavenger Hunt, by Laura Hahnfeld

Vol. 20 No. 4 - Winter 2008

  • Forgotten Masterpiece: Stark Love, Part 1, by John White
  • Knox County Men Star in Hollywood Movie, Stark Love, by Charles Reed Mitchell
  • The Bailey-White Feud, Episode 4 (The Murder Trial of John Bailey), by Dr. James Bailey
  • The Calvin Miracle Murders, by John White

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