Aerial View of Lusby's Mill
from a Facebook post by the Lusby's Mill page

 

Lusby's Mill

 

Charlie Gaines was owner of this Lusby's Mill dry goods store when this photo was taken. When Mr. Gaines moved to Owenton to operate the Ford Automobile Agency, circa 1921, Lewis Mason and R. N. “Bob” Greene took over as proprietors and partners in the store. They later sold the business to Elzie Cobb, and he was followed by Jim Hall. Picture and text both from the Lusby's Mill , Kentucky Facebook page.

We have a more detailed history of the store.

 

The Educational News, June 9, 1921

"On Sunday night about 9 o'clock fire took place at Lusby's Mill.  We have no particulars, but learn that Acree &  Kinman's store house, the Masonic Hall, and a Carding machine, all were burned up.  The light was seen at Squire Long's on Twin, sixteen miles off, to the west." The Carrollton Democrat, September 3, 1870
Fire, 1875, here. In 1870, here.	History of Lusby's Mill Baptist is here. (pdf)
One room schools combined into the Lusby Central School in 1925: Holbrook School, Fortner school, Lusby one-room school, Elk Ridge School, Smith School, and the Hammond school.
Violent shooting in Lusby's Mill.	Lusby's Mill officially established, 1869.
“In 1795 four families from South Carolina, bearing the names Clifton, Cobb, Osborne and Perkins, took up 100-acre claims near what is now Lusby's Mill, settling near a big spring on the banks of Eagle Creek in back of the present Mussel Shoals Church.” - Marian Sidebottom Houchens in her History of Owen County, Kentucky
“Miss Allie Martin, of Lusby's Mills, made a quilt containing 4,863 pieces, and the local editor challenged the state to beat it. Miss Allie Gorham, of Paris [Ky], came to the front with a composite bed covering constructed out of 7,048 individual bits of calico, and she is now the champion.” Bismark (ND) Tribune, November 30, 1883
“N. M. Reed, who lives near Lusby's Mill, in Owen County, has caught thirty red foxes since December last.”Courier-Journal, June 2, 1870	“Newton Simpson, of the Lusby's Mill district has bought over 700 lambs this season, at 5 cents per pound, and is still buying.” Boone County Recorder, July 26, 1899
“We are informed that Uncle Johnnie Wright, living near Lusby's Mill, has struck silver on his place, and is employing all his farm hands in sinking a shaft into the bowels of the earth in pursuit of the precious metal.”Boone County Recorder, October 19, 1887
An 1862 Civil War report from Lusby's Mill, here.	Lusby's bridge burns, 1926.  Read it here.

The Lusbys Mill Community web site.

Covered Bridge at Lusby's Mill
from a Facebook posting on Kentucky's Covered Bridges - A Baker's Dozen

 

Lusbys Mill School, a painting by alumnus Ron Wainscott
From a Facebook post by Jim Mason

Wilma Kincaid Hughes	Otha Holiday, 1944
From a Facebook post by Kathy Riley	From a Facebook post by Gypsy Holliday Flowe
The covered bridge was replaced by an iron bridge

 

Kepple Roland, 1923
Roland would later serve as County Clerk, Sheriff and Judge.
From a Facebook post by San Stack, his grandson

 

Under the Bridge, c. WWI l-r, unknown, Lewis Mason, Blanche Sidebottom Mason, Bob Greene, Gypsy Greene.	Street Scene, with Wilma Kincaid Hughes
From a Facebook post by Jim Mason	From a Facebook post by Kathy Riley

 

Charles Gaine's Store, Lusby's Mill, c. 1890	Lusby's Mill, on Eagle Creek, 1918 photo by Paul Sidebottom

In January 1948, the Lusby's Mill's Homemakers published a history of the place. Mrs. Orville Jones wrote on Lusby's Mill's Stores and Storekeepers, here, (pdf), and its churches here (pdf), and Mrs. Oren Cobb wrote on the Mill and the community, here. The entire document is here (pdf).

Lusby’s Mill was originally called Cobbs Station, later Cobbs Mill.  The water mill at Cobbs Mill was built for William Jones, but named for his father-in-law, Samuel Cobb, a revolutionary War veteran from South Carolina.  Around 1852 John H. Lusby, or perhaps his brother William H., acquired the mill, and re-named it Lusby’s Mill. From Robert Rennick’s Kentucky Bluegrass: A Survey of the Post Offices, Vol. II.

“A slow-witted man named Harrison Bennett of the Lusby's Mill community had the blame placed upon him when a man named Tooms was shot by his own brother-in-law. Bennett was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged on the first Friday in January. The execution took place on what came to be known as “Gallows Hill,” about a mile from Owenton . . . About five-thousand people witnessed the hanging. The victim stood by on a cart with the rope around his neck fastened to the gallows. A Negro man was hired to drive the cart away, and the victim struggled for 15 minutes before he was pronounced dead.” from Mariam Sidebottom Houchen's History of Owen County, Kentucky