1866 Map of Proposed Trimble Railroads
You'll want a key to all those red lines. It's
here.
Yeager's Store | Callis Store |
The application to put the Callis store on the National Register of Historic Places is here. (pdf)
The application to put the Yeager store on the National Register of Historic Places is here. (pdf)
Sam's, on US 421 South
From a Facebook post by Roy Black
Howard McEndre's on 42
Mt. Byrd, 1812.
US 42, East of Bedford, 1932 |
Canip Creek |
Ewingford Bridge |
Two Trimble County Scenes from Harlan Hubbard
Indiana Republican, February 20, 1819
Wises Landing | Wises Landings' Barrickman's Store Closing |
Details | Details |
from Trimble County Heritage |
Alexandria (VA)
Gazette, October 23, 1896
From a Facebook post by
Tina Diane
Wises Landing, 1979 | Equity Barn in Wise's Landing |
What's an equity barn? It's a barn where members of the equity store tobacco instead of selling it.
Why aren't they selling it? Because there's a tobacco war going on.
From a Facebook post by Brewier Welch
“Greenup Wise purchased a store at Houston's Landing, which is located about three miles south of Wises Landing, just north of where Middle Creek flows into the Ohio.” - Clara Scott |
Indianapolis News, March 4, 1897
Corn Creek used to have a post office
Abraham King sells his farm in Corn Creek. In 1813. Here.
J. C. Yager's Store in Corn Creek is Closing, 1902 |
Courier-Journal, December 8, 1882
The town of Kingston is chartered in 1872
Somewhere in |
Morning in a Trimble County Meadow, 1933 |
Picking strawberries in |
The White Cottage, Sligo, Kentucky, just across the line in Henry County |
Just across the Trimble County line in Sulphur, Henry County |
“The steamer Helen M. Gould, on route to Louisville, Ky., sunk at Wise’s Landing, 15 miles
below Madison on the 30th. No lives were lost.” Jaspar (Ind.) Weekly Courier, November 6, 1903
The account of the Gould sinking | But in 1914, she bravely fought thru the ice. |
The Nov. 10, 1932 New York Times had a story on a half dozen or so election-related shootings in Kentucky, including one in Wise's Landing, where Clarence Carson was seriously wounded. Charlie Simpson and his father, Pete Simpson, were arrested. | |
Clara Scott's History of Wises Landing is here. | Trimble County celebrates the opening of US 42 in 1931, here. |
“Representative Berry, of Kentucky, today requested the Post office Department to revoke, or at least to suspend, the order establishing the Bedford . . .rural free delivery route in Kentucky. Strong opposition from the patrons of Corn Creek . . . is responsible for Mr. Berry's request.” Cincinnati Enquirer, April 8, 1900 | |
Postcard postmarked June 26, 1912 at Corncreek, Ky. , “to Miss Addie Housefield, Madison, Indiana. Dear Addie, Who are you looking for tonight? I am down at Wise's Landing now. There are lots of nice looking girls down here, but . . .? Will see you later.” |