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| South Side of Courthouse, 1915 from the left, W. S. Pierce. grocery and dry goods, across Main Street; A. B. Clem, general store; Clem residence; store room building with Cumberland Telephone Exchange above; Terrell Brothers, funeral home, auto and farm implement dealers. |
The A. B. Clem Heirs Store, Bedford formerly on the northwest corner, south side, of the Courthouse This building burned on March 18, 1941, in the third of what would be five major fires to hit downtown Bedford in the 1940's and 1950's. from Trimble County Heritage, 1991-1992 |
Mrs. C. W. Hood's
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The Kentucky Tavern, US 42, South of Bedford The Old Kentucky Tavern is on the National Register of Historic Places |
Just north of Landy Road on US 42
It was a gas station / bus stop.
Offices of the Trimble Democrat
Bedford Loan and Deposit Bank, unknown year.
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| Louis Logan | Bedford Deposit Bank | W. F. Peak, Bank President |
| Miss Louise B. Logan started at the Bedford Deposit Bank beginning March 25, 1910, and was still with them over 64 years later, advancing from clerk, to cashier, to vice-president. The bank opened on November 2, 1896. | ||
| The first Bedford Deposit Bank was incorporated by the State Legislature on March 30, 1888. The Act is here (pdf). | For reasons not clear to us, it incorporated again on March 18, 1918. Incorporation papers, including a stockholder list, is here (pdf). |
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| from 1903 | Various Trimble and Carroll Co Bankers, 1952 | from 1902 |
| The Epsom and Chalybeate Springs re-open in Bedford. In 1849. |
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| Bray Orchards Kentucky Progress Magazine named Joe Bray one its first Master Farmers in 1929. |
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Bedford Garage
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| Morgan Drug Store “Filling Prescriptions is our main business” |
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| Feeders Supply | Haney's TV. 1964 (left) and 1965 | ||
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| Standard Oil, Bedford G. W. and Charles Taylor |
Mershell's Marathon, 1964 | Chandler and Toombs, 1964 Toomb's Sinclair, 1967 |
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| Lindbergh Taylor's Gulf, 1963, Next to Little Town and Country From a Facebook post by Larry Craig, whose '58 Chevy is seen. |
Chandler & Tombs Sinclair Station From a Facebook post by Hilda Parrish |
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| Woody's Grocery, 1964 Raymond Wood, prop. |
R. E. Clem's, 1964 Groceries and Dry Goods |
Pi0neer Shop “Gifts for all occasions” |
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| Bedford Products | Triangle Food Store |
Trimble Democrat
| The first paper in Trimble County was the Trimble News, whose first issue was February 20, 1879. It became the Banner Democrat in 1899, merged with the Milton News in the issue of November 7, 1913, and was locally owned until 1971. |
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| Thelma and Lee Pearson's B. C. Food Store, 1965 | Miles & Ward Grocery, 1967 |
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| Little Town and Country, 1965 (left) and 1963 |
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Bedford Springs
From a Facebook post by Hilda Parrish
Bedford Springs
Trimble County, Ky.
These Springs are now open for the reception of visitors.
A regular four-horse coach will leave Jericho, on the Louisville and Frankfort
Railroad, (33 miles from Louisville) every Monday, Wednesday. and Saturday
June 8, 1864 Parker & Miller
(from Frankfort's Tri-Weekly Commonwealth, July 22, 1864)
A chemical analysis of the minerals in the mineral springs, from 1857, is here.
