Oldest House
Inscription
Built about 1800 in Yellow Creek Valley, the second brick house in the county, and the oldest one still standing. The bricks were made from clay by slave labor. Home of Rev. John Calvin Colson, "Patriarch of Yellow Creek Valley," preacher, teacher, lawyer, doctor, farmer, miller, merchant, "being gifted along these lines but not educated for such pursuits.
" Presented by Chamber of Commerce.
Location
Sources
More markers in Bell
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky - Cumberland Gap
Middlesborough, KY
Meriwether Lewis, coleader of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, with a party of Expedition veterans and a Mandan Indian delegation, went...
Naming of the Cumberland River
Pineville, KY
Near this site where the creek enters the river, on April 17, 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker first viewed the river he named for the Duke of...
Cumberland Ford
Pineville, KY
One of the most important points on the Wilderness Road marked by Daniel Boone in 1775.
Henderson Settlement
Pineville, KY
Rev. Hiram M. Frakes founded this Methodist Settlement in 1925.
Wallsend Mine
Pineville, KY
The first to begin operations in Bell County, starting in 1889, with 1500 acres of coal land.