Home Hotel in Brooksville, c. 1932
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In 1911, The Farmers Equity Bank of Brooksville published a book of Kentucky Farm Laws. These are the ads from the book |
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Maysville's Daily Public Ledger, August 12, 1907
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Did you know National Banks used to print their own money? Here are three $5 bills and a $10 from the First National Bank of Brooksville. More on the practice is here. The two images on the right are the front and back of the same bill. |
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| The First National Bank goes big to celebrate it's golden anniversary. | ||||
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| S. William Bay Motor Co., 1939 |
Bertram's Drugs. You may know the building as Dean's Pharmacy |
Brooksville Cannery | Farmers and Merchants |
Brooksville Lumber, late 1800's
A partial list of who's in the picture, is here.
Image Courtesy of the Bracken County Historical Society
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Bracken County News, c. 1950's |
Mr. E. Allen Griffith was an early editor of the Brooksville Review. Read more about him here. |
 The Daily National Hotel Reporter, May 18, 1922 |
 The Courier-Journal, February 1, 1896 |
| Prohibitionists attempt to shut down Brooksville hotel's liquor license. Fail. | Oil well near Brooksville yields cure for rheumatism 1849. Right. |
| Brooksville man organizes a reed band to tour Canada | “The Mason-Bracken Electric Company of Germantown, Ky., has been organized so supply electricity for lamps and motors in Brooksville, Ky. H. L. Corliss is president.” Electrical World, Vol. 75, 1920 |
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Brooksville Business District, |
Collins-Nicholson Distillery, 1910 |
These maps are excerpts from Sanborn Fire Maps. Find out how to see the entire collection of Sanborn maps here. |
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| The Brooksville Railroad began operating in June of 1897. It went bankrupt in 1918 and was purchased by a group of Brooksville businessmen, who re-organized it as the Brooksville and Ohio River Railroad. It ran along Locust Creek, north, to Wellsburg. It was abandoned on April 11, 1931, and this scene is now Jett Memorial Park. |
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| Terminal, showing depot and engine house |
Map of the Brooksville and Ohio River Railroad |
Passengers ride a section car after passenger service is discontinued |
| These last three images are from Elmer Sulzer's Ghost Railroads of Kentucky. The Brooksville and Ohio completed its 9.89 route in June of 1897, passenger service was eliminated in 1918, and on April 11, 1931, the ICC approved the abandonment of the railroad. By that time, it had been some time since any trains had actually run. Better roads and trucks can be blamed for the railroad's demise. | ||
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More detail than most |
Wainright Lea & Sons, 1925 |
