Browse Items (58 total)

wheelwright swimming pool.jpg
This image was taken from the Floyd County Sesquicentennial program.

13390997_10208153449411230_1140094255_n.jpg
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…

Tags: ,

photo_0001.jpg
Photo taken before a ball game

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/24311/archive/files/e0d13f4fb34a864aa76a99d54638a991.jpg
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…

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/24311/archive/files/9eabcdf22c7c2a7ff206b5cd103c0e0c.jpg
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.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/24311/archive/files/fbe926ae754ecc6c672358e01d77cf8a.jpg
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…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2