Floyd County Public Library Summer Reading Program 1988 (Part 2)
Floyd County Public Library Summer Reading Program 1988 (Part 1)
David Child Care Center at the Floyd County Public Library 1970s
Floyd County Public Library Meetings 1970s
Wheelwright Swimming Pool, circa 1950
This image was taken from the Floyd County Sesquicentennial program.
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Alka Davis and Bill Reffett with harvested tree, 1930s
Alka (Alamander) Davis and Bill (William) Reffett were partners in a lumber company that operated in Jobe Turner Branch at Eastern, Kentucky, on Right Beaver in the 1930s. Alka Davis (standing on the left) was only about 5' 6" tall, so the two-man cross cut saw was probably close to six feet in length; making the tree's circumference somewhere close to 18 feet.
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis and David Reffett
Spring Festival at Prestonsburg Elementary, 1948
Photo taken before a ball game
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis
Inland Gas Pumping Station at Midas
The building is the Inland Gas Pumping Station at Midas. This compressor station had been in place since the late 1920s, first in Mud Lick and later in its present location at Midas. It generated its own electricity and had a five house "camp" where men who serviced the pumping station lived in relative comfort in company-owned housing. Taylor Reffett was superintendent of the station. From right to left: Taylor Reffett, Floyd Davis, Floyd D. Davis.
Floyd Davis used to speak of the electric lights glowing in the morning in and around the pump station when he walked out of Brush Creek to work on the W.P.A. Road (Old Route 80) going up Right Beaver Creek, and the Blue Eagle Flag of the New Deal Flew just under the American Flag by the office. The was no electricity anywhere on Right Beaver except the coal camps in those days.
1952
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis
First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Kindergarten
First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg was among the first to operate an organized kindergarten as a part of its service program. It was taught by Ms. Mable Lemaster.
circa 1957 or 1958
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis/First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Archives
May Day Parade and Festival, 1951
The May Day Parade and Festival were big doings in Prestonsburg during the 1950s and early 1960s. These photographs belonged to Kathryn Frazier.
Picture 1: 1951 May Day Queen and her court
Picture 2: May Day participants on the Prestonsburg Grade School stage. (May be from a different year than picture 1).
1951
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis/First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Archives