Above is the B.F. Johnson Gasoline Steamboat.

Photo: Rev. Marion Tevis Burris Map 1851

Below is a headline and article by the late Henry Scalf from the February 14, 1952 Floyd County Times.  The Jackson- Blackburn Feud was largely forgotten during the years following the Civil War. PEACE OVERTURE SPURNED, OLD ENMITY BURST INTO FEUD ENDING IN CLAN LEADER’S DEATH “Dr. Robert Jackson, scion

TALES OF LOST TREASURE have charmed people through the ages, from Oak Island to the Superstition Mountains.  The valleys of the upper Big Sandy and North Fork of the Kentucky River are no exception.  There is one story of hidden Appalachian riches that has survived for over 250 years.  The

The topog­raphy of the Big Sandy country of eastern Ken­tucky and west/southwest Virginia has long been recognized as one of the most uncon­ventional regions east of the Mississippi River.  In reaching that state of geographic development, the watershed of the Big Sandy River has been undergoing geologic change for hundreds

As signs of division turned into warnings and obstinate attitudes increasingly found confrontation during the year before the Civil War, Kentuckians assumed the role of mediator with increasing frequency. Some have interpreted this as a continuation of the legacy of Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, but, to an equal or

Below is the introductory paragraph by the person who originally submitted this item for publication in the February 1996 issue of the Pike County Historical Review, page 22.  The original article follows. I found this petition in a library at Huntsville, Alabama in 1980.  The title of the book was

On March 24, 1911, The Big Sandy News published an article on page 1, announcing Langhorne and Langhorne of Richmond, Virginia, was awarded a contract for the construction of the Consolidated Coal Co.’s line of railroad from a connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway at the mouth of Shelby