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Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.
Mitchell, Moses (Lg 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mitchell, Moses (Lg 116), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 116. Original land grant, 6 July 1847, by which William Owsley, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Moses Mitchell 200 acres in Barren County.
Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hays, Joseph Stephen, B. 1956 - Collector (Mss 510), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 510. Correspondence, business records, account books, and miscellaneous personal papers of members of the Allen, Barner, Savage and Mallory families of Edmonson, Hart and Warren counties in Kentucky.
Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alexander Family Papers (Mss 505), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only Manuscripts Collection 505. Correspondence, business and estate papers, deeds and miscellaneous records of the Alexander, Fontaine, Lucas, Graham and associated families, principally of Henry County, Virginia; Cumberland, Metcalfe and Warren counties in Kentucky; and Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Includes letters of Martha (Lucas) Graham written from Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Mammoth Cave National Park Association - Land Acquisition (Mss 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mammoth Cave National Park Association - Land Acquisition (Mss 503), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 503. Records related to the formation of the Mammoth Cave National Park Association and the acquisition of certain lands for Mammoth Cave National Park. Includes deeds, title abstracts, summaries of land acquisition, correspondence, and financial records. Click "Additional Files" below for an acreage map (Box 2, Folder 11).
Steen Family Papers (Mss 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steen Family Papers (Mss 502), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 502. Correspondence, deeds, receipts, family photographs and business and personal papers of the Steen family, principally Isaac Newton Steen, his son Thomas W. Steen, and Thomas’s family, of Barren and Monroe counties in Kentucky.
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Collector (Sc 2852), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2852. Letter to Cora Jane Spiller, 29 April 2014, from Ronnie Doyle, Park City, Kentucky, with reminiscences about Ford's Farm and Ford's Farm Cave in Barren County, Kentucky.
Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bates, James Preston, 1810-1877 - Relating To (Sc 2850), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2850. Resolution of sympathy of a committee of the Bowling Green, Kentucky bar on the death of James P. Bates on 30 November 1877. Includes a sketch of Bates’s life.
Richey, Nancy Carol, B. 1959 - Collector (Sc 2837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Richey, Nancy Carol, B. 1959 - Collector (Sc 2837), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2837. “Freedom, Kentucky Story,” a narrative of John Robert Miller primarily concerning his grandmother’s family and life in Black Walnut Barren County, Kentucky. Miller explains that the geography of the area offered hiding places for escaped slaves on their way to the North; as a consequence, the community was renamed Freedom in 1866.
Parker, Thomas (Lg 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parker, Thomas (Lg 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 86. Original land grant, 24 October 1816, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas Parker, 100 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.