Wolfe County (Ky.) -- History.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hazel Green Academy Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0249 SAA 038
Abstract
W. O. Mize, J. T. Day, and Green Berry Swango founded Hazel Green Academy in 1880. Eventually, administration and financial support were shifted to agencies of the Disciples of Christ (Christian) Church, first under the Christian Women's Board of Missions in 1886, and then under the United Christian Missionary Society in 1919. Formal support from the national church ended in 1971. The Academy was a boarding school throughout its ninety-six years and the curriculum included both college...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1886-1982
Ohio and Kentucky Railway Company Records
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0033 SAA 031
Abstract
The Ohio and Kentucky Railway was created and owned by the Kentucky Block Cannel Coal Company, a corporation that had leased about 5400 acres of cannel coal land adjacent to Caney, Morgan County (Kentucky). Construction of the railroad began in 1899 at the O. & K. Junction, one mile west of Jackson in Breathitt County, and continuing 26 miles to Cannel City in Morgan County, completion of this section being accomplished in 1901. Both freight and passenger runs were made, as well as...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1900