Pike County Historical Society is pleased to announce its release of Peach Orchard Bottom: Pikeville, Kentucky Through 1865. Hard cover, illustrated. $39.95 plus tax and necessary postage Purchase Book Peach Orchard Bottom, located along what was originally called Louisa Fork of Big Sandy River in the center of the southern

  Not long after the 1756 Big Sandy Expedition, we have heard of countless stories about explorers passing through the Sandy Ridge Gap. We would have to wonder how many hide-stretched canoes made the treacherous journey down the Russell Fork – Sandy Creek many years ago. The photos displayed below

Putney, a stringtown along the winding Cumberland River, grew around the old seat of one of the largest sawmills in eastern Kentucky.  I can remember well the day I came over from Pine Mountain School to find Jim Couch, a storyteller from back on the headwaters of the Kentucky River,

A Young Man Hanged and a Family Avenged “Ellison Hatfield-Mounts, a Hatfield confederate who had admitted to the shooting of Alifair McCoy, and was then hung by the neck until dead.” Those were the newspaper headlines so numerously printed across the country, when the small mountain town of Pikeville Kentucky

FACT OR FICTION? 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

A. R. Crandall Photo 1883 – Taken while working with the KY Geological Survey. March 5th 1825 James Honaker