This category focuses on schools and their histories in Knox County, Kentucky.
The Museum seeks copies of school histories, records and photographs. These can be scanned in at the Museum itself if donors want to keep their originals.
The location of old schools in Knox County, Kentucky are listed - apparently by employees of the Knox County School System - on a 1937 Kentucky State Highway Department road map.
Most local historians have heard of the old Barbourville Baptist Institute (B.B.I.) which was located where the Knox County Middle School campus is now located in Barbourville, Kentucky.
Read more: Recruitment booklet for the Southeast Kentucky Baptist School (later known as B.B.I.)
On June 10, 2015, officers of the Knox Historical Museum visited newly reconstructed Ketchen School located in southwestern Knox County.
Read more: KHM staff visit reconstructed Ketchen School on KY 1809
Subcategories
Rosenwald School
History, Records and Photographs of Rosenwald School located in Knox County, Kentucky.
Union College
History, Records and Photographs of Union College located in Knox County, Kentucky.