Carter
A Masterful Retreat
Grayson, KY
As Gen. George W. Morgan's Union force, 8,000 when here, retreated from Cumberland Gap, they were harassed from West Liberty by CSA...
A Masterful Retreat
Retreating from Cumberland Gap, General George W. Morgan's Union force of 8,000 men camped here September 1862.
Aviation Pioneer
Matthew Sellers, among first to experiment with gliding and power flight.
Beckham County
Olive Hill, KY
Created from parts of Carter, Lewis and Elliott counties with county seat here by legislative act signed February 9, 1904, by Governor J....
Civil War Reunion
Grayson, KY
In their blue and gray uniforms, for over forty years, Civil War veterans gathered here annually.
County Named, 1838
Grayson, KY
For Col. William Grayson Carter, state senator, 1834-1838.
Eastern Kentucky Railway
Grayson, KY
E. K. Railway purchased 25,000 acres of land in Little Sandy Valley at close of the Civil War.
Eastern Kentucky Railway- Willard
Willard, KY
In 1873, line was extended from Grayson to Willard.
Eastern Kentucky Railway-Hitchins
Hitchins, KY
Here the EK had a junction with the Elizabethtown, Lexington & Big Sandy Rwy that connected with the Ashland Coal and Iron Rwy in Denton.
Home of Gov. Fields
Olive HIll, KY
"Honest Bill from Olive Hill.
Mount Savage Furnance
Grayson, KY
Six miles south, site of famous iron furnace, erected, 1848, by R. M. Biggs and others.
Pactolus Furnace
Pactolus, KY
Built in 1824 by Joseph McMurtry and David L. Ward, on the site of an earlier bloomery forge.
Saltpeter Cave
Saltpeter mined here from which gunpowder was made that was used by Kentucky riflemen during the War of 1812.