Over the past 250 years major animal traces were very noticeable across the Eastern Kentucky landscape. This particular trace is no longer used because of the change in topography on the ridge line between Floyd and Magoffin County. The Ridgeline between these two Counties is the diving boundary that separates

Randolph (Randal) McCoy Randolph McCoy was born was born Oct. 30, 1825, as the son of Daniel McCoy and Margaret Taylor. He passed of burns on October 30, 1914. He married his cousin, Sarah McCoy, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Davis. Randal and Sarah married in Pike County, Kentucky

– A HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO PIKEVILLE, KENTUCKY The Times They Are A- Changin’ Gayle Compton (Note: The original version of the following was published in Coal People Magazine in 2015, seven years before Pikeville, Kentucky, would be celebrating its Bicentennial.  Changes in the names of some landmarks and certain demographics

Lt. William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield of the 45th under Capt. John Buchanan The 45th Battalion Virginia Infantry was raised by Lieutenant Colonel Henry M. Beckley, mainly with men from the Virginia State Line, under the previous command of General John Buchanan Floyd, in late 1861. Floyd’s early measures at Bowling Green,

Camp Brownlow, Piketon, Kentucky 1862 The JSR Letters are from the collection of Josh Branham and transcribed by Josh Branham Letter 1 Camp Brownlow, KetuckySunday afternoon, February 9th [1862] Brother Enoch, Although I have not received any answer to my last letter, yet I attribute it to irregularity of the

General John B. Floyd’s 119 Unionist Prisoners Captured During the Raid of the Virginia State Line Up in the Big Sandy Valley in December of 1862 Sources and Works Consulted: The Richmond Daily Enquirer, Dec. 29, 1862. (Published between 1804 and 1877.) Typescript of a letter dated Aug. 7, 1863,

We have started a new social page highlighting different places throughout the region. Pond Creek is the official launch area targeting the 1920s through the 1960s. If you have good high-resolution photos, and have a wonderful story involving an individual, family, community or town and would like to share, please

Canceled

Twenty-two people died in the four-state region, including 10 in Kentucky, due to the flooding which also affected southern West Virginia, southwest Virginia and parts of Tennessee as the heavy rain continued through April 5. According to the National Weather Service office in Jackson, record flooding occurred on the Tug