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| Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 1901
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Mt. Zion Baptist Church |
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Free School, |
James Leary's Store, |
Mt. Zion School
From a Facebook post by Carolyn Simpson Kinman
Mt. Zion Baptist
From a Facebook post by Glenn Stewart
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| Mt. Zion, D. A. Franks Warehouse First Tractor in Mt. Zion? From a Facebook post by June Bowen Pettit |
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Mt. Zion School
From a Facebook post by Glenn Stewart
Mt. Zion Bank
From a Facebook post by Donald Lee Skirvin
Yes, Pretty Boy Floyd really did rob the Mt. Zion Bank. Stories here and here.
One of Floyd's accomplices is shot and killed.
The original officers of the Mt. Zion Deposit Bank, established August 31, 1903. It's last day was June 26, 1976.
News stories about the final days of the bank.
| In the Civil War, many rural Kentuckians had more fear of Guerillas than real troops. These self-appointed confederates' primary actions consisted of looting and thieving, as shown in this 1864 episode in Mt. Zion. |
| Mt. Zion gets a new mill in 1879. |
| A really nice piece on Mt. Zion ran in 1879, and can be read here. |
The L&N coming thru Zion Station
from the Kentucky Explorer
| The September, 1950 issue of the Louisville and Nashville Employees Magazine ran a feature story on the employees working in Mt. Zion. Here are the pictures. |
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| Section Gang Members | Working on the track | Three employees discuss issues |
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| The track was being surfaced and re-ballasted when pictures on this page were taken. | ||
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| The motor car | Rail lubricator | Section foreman's home |
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| Other Zion Station residences | Shorty Webster | Technology used by the crew |
Chicago Packer, November 1, 1913
There was a tunnel on the L&N at Zion Station (Mile Post 77) which was bypassed in the 60s.
