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left to right, Merriel Powell, Clyde Mullins, Burgess Sloan on
Bowen's Rock, 1923(transcribed from tape)
You may wonder why I am putting what I am about to on tape. The reason is simple. In the past few years many people have asked me to put down my knowledge, memories , hearsay, and things that have happened in Elkhorn City during my lifetime.
Some of the things I am going to relate...
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Part of Swift Cache Found?
By Michael Steely
From page 54 of the August 1997 issue of Lost Treasure magazine.
Copyright ©1997, 1998 Lost Treasure, Inc.
For more than 250 years people in Appalachia have searched for the lost silver mines of Jonathan Swift. Here and there he claimed to have mined silver ore, operated smelters, coined up Spanish, English, and French coins, and transported the counterfeit coins back to the colonies.
The search has stretched from Pennsylvania to Alabama and was much detailed in my book Swift's Lost Silver Mines and Related... -
By: Jeanette Elswick
Elkhorn City is older than you think. William Ramey was granted this property through a land survey about 1825. The town grew very slowly over the next 75 years, less than 50 families were living here. In 1890 came the railroad boom, which played an important part in the development of our town.
Can you visualize arriving in Elkhorn City, Kentucky, by train, in 1907? The railroad bridge had not yet been built. The depot was located near the Caudill mines. To get to main Elkhorn City, you had to take the ferry boat across the river. This ferry was located near the present C... -
by Jeanette Elswick
(As taken form the Elkhorn City Enterprise, Thursday, May 11, 1972)
The founder of Elkhorn City, Kentucky, was William Ramey, who at the approximate age of 27, migrated here form Virginia. His Descendants say that he originally came from the area near Dobson and Mr. Airy ( Surry County), North Carolina, form which he moved to Virginia, and eventually Kentucky. William was an engineer by trade. He surveyed may tracts of land through North Carolina and Virginia, one of which still bears his name, "The Ramey Flats", in Dickenson County, Virginia. The 1810 Floyd County census lists two William Rameys,... -
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE STORY OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
AS TOLD TO NEIL POTTER
BY HIS GRANDFATHER WILLIAM LANDON POTTER
© Neil Potter 1999
It was early Spring in the mountains as George Potter, son of the pioneer Richard Potter, and Mose Belcher, his father-in-law, were busy clearing new ground in the head of Right Fork of Little Beaver Creek. Unknown to them a party of men was approaching George's cabin located on or near Center Creek near the state line across the river from Potter Flats.
Polly was busy preparing supper. She had spotted the men coming up the trail and... -
by Gerald Looney
As a young boy back in Elkhorn City, one of my first jobs was paperboy for the Louisville Courier Journal. Now as most youngsters that age my interests did not dwell so much in the contents of the newspapers but mainly in the wages earned. However, on occasions I did happen to read some of the contents of the daily news. This probably is where my vague memory of Greenville Tom Hawkins got its start. Also, probably due to my family being registered Republicans, G. Tom had the unofficial title of... -
On June 10, 1999, Elkhorn City native and former councilman Nick Marinaro took part in a presentation on the Italian-American influence on Appalachian culture as part of the annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival at Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY. As usual, Nick was an outstanding ambassador for Elkhorn City and the region.
The program was recorded and we are blessed with some outstanding oral history, thanks to the...
