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W. R. Jones General |
Blacksmith Shop, where Pryor Branch Road meets Mill Creek (now where I-71 passes over Mill Creek). |
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| English School, 1911-12, key to students From a Facebook post by Kelly Anderson |
English School, 1930 From a Facebook post by ?? |
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| Last Day for the English Post Office | Tokens from J. R. Green |
Earlier Channel of the Kentucky |
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L & N Foreman's House |
Another L & N Section |
The L. & N. comes |
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L & N wreck, going over the east fork of Mill Creek near the Tomtown tunnel a few miles from English, 1914. More on the train wreck is here.
An earlier train wreck described here, and, in more detail, here.
from the Nashville Union and Dispatch, June 27, 1867
Where's Mill Creek?
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| Mill Creek Tunnel was at a railroad location called Barnes (there used to be a siding there by that name) between the towns of English and Turner's Station that can be seen from I-71. It was the bypassed in the mid-1990s. | ||
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| Chicago Packer, October 16, 1915 | Chicago Packer, September 30, 1916 |
| Hear about the English, Ky. citizen who sent his wife to Arabia, via Shanghai to buy a breeding mare? That account is here. | English is named after Capt. James Whorton English. He served in the War of 1812, and was the original owner of the land on which English now sits. |
| The Klan in English. | |
The 1914 L&N Shippers' Guide had this description of English. |
“A large meeting of the Democracy of Carroll county, Ky., was held at Carrollton, on Saturday last, at which Samuel G. English, Esq., former representative, was nominated for the Legislature. Sam is a self-made man, a gentleman, and all sorts of a clever fellow, and we have no doubt of his election.” Vevay Times and Switzerland County Democrat, June 11, 1840 |
| Dr. Gilbert held for murder. | “The new Baptist Church at English was dedicated Sunday. The Rev. DeMent, of Louisville, gave a masterly address in the morning, and Rev. J. W. Waldrop of Owenton delivered a splendid sermon in the afternoon.” from the Owenton News-Herald, October 10, 1907. |
| A brief history of English from 1967 is here. | |
| “The town of English, Ky., has signed a vote for $3,000 for a public park, to be located in the west part of town where stands the statue of William H. English, for whom the park will be named.” from the April, 1922 issue of Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening. | |
