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A Glimpse of the Past

Dairy Bar Part 2

Submitted by McCreary County Museum   (This week’s “Glimpse of the Past” business feature is part two of two on McCreary County’s fifth oldest business, the Dairy Bar.  The fourth oldest McCreary County business, Crabtree Wilson Insurance, Inc. will be featured at a later time. In 1965, Anderson’s Dairy Bar opened the season with new…

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Hickman-Strunk Funeral Home

Submitted by McCreary County Museum Providing Service for One Hundred Nine Years According to documentation and oral history provided by Jefferson “Jeff” Hickman, Jr. (May 23, 1922 – Apr 27, 2001), the Hickman Brothers Undertaking Company began serving families in McCreary County in 1915 from a location in Whitley City. The funeral home later moved…

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United Cumberland Bank – Part II

Submitted by McCreary County Museum (Pine Knot Banking Company and Bank of McCreary County) World War II was a period of considerable economic activity in McCreary County. The county helped with the war effort by supplying lumber and coal to American industries. The Stearns Coal and Lumber Company kept many people working throughout WWII and…

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United Cumberland Bank Part I

(Pine Knot Banking Company and Bank of McCreary County) Beginning February 7, 2024, The McCreary County Voice and McCreary County Museum, beginning with the oldest, will feature histories of the eight oldest, ongoing businesses in McCreary County. For one hundred eighteen years, United Cumberland Bank has served its clients through a plethora of  local and…

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K & T (Kentucky and Tennessee) Railway

Submitted by McCreary County Museum   Beginning this week, The McCreary County Voice and McCreary County Museum, beginning with the oldest, will feature histories of the eight oldest, ongoing businesses in McCreary County. In March of 1902, Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso became the first well-known performer to make a phonograph record and in April…

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Eddie Lowell Brown, Part 1

Submitted by McCreary County Museum   In 1933, Archie Harry Brown and his wife, Flora (Davis) Brown, were living in a home owned by Stearns Coal and Lumber Company, located on Farm Ridge Road. On November 24 of that year, Archie and Flora welcomed a son they named Eddie Lowell Brown. He joined a sister,…

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Second Grade Class – Pine Knot Elementary School 1961-1962, Mrs. Clancy Roth, Teacher

Submitted by McCreary County Museum Pictured L-R, Front/Back ROW 1: Kim Ross, Lynn Morrow, Terry Phillips, Linda Campbell, Kathy King ROW 2: Ruth Myers?, Rexie Green, Carl Stephens, Richard Musgrove, Wesley King, Gordon Baird, ROW 3: Tony Jones,  Kathy Crabtree, Jeanie Slaven, Gary Crabtree, Harriett Wilson,  Bruce Morrow. ROW 4: Lloyd Martin, Colleen Jones, Bruce…

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John K. Martin and Otie Leona (Ball) Martin c. 1960

Submitted by McCreary County Museum John K. Martin (September 27, 1903 – August 11, 1992) was the son of Robert Green and Aggie (Cox) Martin featured in  last week’s column. John married Otie Leona (Ball) Martin March 12, 1925, near the old Duck Run Post Office. Their marriage was officiated by Reverend Johnny Bryant. John…

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