With over two hundred specially selected postcards created between 1900 and 1930, this visual history explores life in five Central Kentucky counties in the early twentieth century. Family stories abound, and Main Street scenes depict county court days, trials, and parades, together with the stagecoaches, buggies, and trains of a bygone era. Tourist sites such as My Old Kentucky Home, Lincoln Homestead, and Tatham Springs are included, as well as distilleries, hotels, depots, bridges, and a chautauqua. Images of Protestant and Catholic schools, colleges, churches, convents, and monasteries show the reader how this area came to be known as the "Kentucky Holy Land."
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Dixie Hibbs is a tour guide and local historian in Bardstown, Kentucky. Her previous works include Images of America: Bardstown and Nelson County: A Portrait of the Civil War. Carl Howell, an attorney and historian, is Kentucky's premier postcard collector and has been practicing law in Hodgenville, Kentucky, since 1969. His previous works include Images of America: Hardin and Larue Counties, 1880-1930.
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Bullitt County was formed in 1796 from parts of Jefferson and Nelson Counties and named for Alexander Scott Bullitt, Kentucky's first lieutenant governor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Haven, Civil War, Marion County, Nelson County, Salt River, Muir Bank, Bardstown Branch, Albert Kraemer, Depot Street, Lincoln Institute, Proctor Knott Avenue, Rolling Fork River, Main Cross Street, Stephen Foster, Water Street, William Jennings Bryan New!
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Bullitt County was formed in 1796 from parts of Jefferson and Nelson Counties and named for Alexander Scott Bullitt, Kentucky's first lieutenant governor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Haven, Civil War, Marion County, Nelson County, Salt River, Muir Bank, Bardstown Branch, Albert Kraemer, Depot Street, Lincoln Institute, Proctor Knott Avenue, Rolling Fork River, Main Cross Street, Stephen Foster, Water Street, William Jennings Bryan New!
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- The Civil War (America Goes to War) by Kerry A. Graves on page 38, and page 73
- Native Americans (Nature Company Discoveries Libraries) by Judith Simpson on page 125
- Main Street (Signet Classics) by Sinclair Lewis on page 56
- Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics) by Sinclair Lewis on page 93
- Theodore Roosevelt (Twayne's United States Authors Series) by Aloysius A. Norton on page 21
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