Floyd County (Ky.)

Scope and Contents These are interviews recorded by Bellarmine University student, Deacon Smith in Floyd County, Kentucky during June 2024. The interviews were part of an undergraduate research project that focused on exploring how eastern Kentucky communities have dealt with the transition into a post-coal economy. The project was conducted with support of a Bellarmine University Student Government Undergraduate Research Award and the Kentucky Oral History Commission. Virginia (Ginger) Blevins ...

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This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Logging on river, Lee Hall Jr's store and Witt's Shoes

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains news releases, reports, brochures, flyers, small published and unpublished items, and other ephemeral materials documenting the history, events, customs and social lives of peoples in the Appalachian region of the United States.

Abstract The New Salem Baptist Church in Harold (Co. Floyd), Kentucky, was one of the original churches to enter into the New Salem Association of Baptists (constituted in 1825 in eastern Kentucky, armed from Burning Springs).  Built about the same time as the Association’s founding, the New Salem Baptist Church was built in an area originally called Harold Gap (now referred to as Old Harold Road).  Association records show that Simeon Justice, William Salisbury, and Alexander Lackey were messengers...