Cordova

www.nkyviews.com

This beautiful village of do-nothings is situated on the old Licking Road, nine miles south of the county-seat, and on the stream known as Crooked Creek, deriving its name from its many short runs and crooks, which make it necessary to cross as many as thirty-nine times in one mile.  The town c onsists of one store, one black-smith shop, and a post office.  The country is very rolling and steep, but very productive, bringing fine yields of corn, wheat, rye and tobacco, and all kinds of cereals.

.

from Covington's The Commonwealth, October 26, 1877