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Bridges - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bridges - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3308. Specifications, including sketches, for the construction of a bridge across Skaggs Creek in Barren County, Kentucky. The detailed specifications as to design, dimensions, materials, and method of construction were prepared by a commission appointed by the Barren County Court. Unable to secure a bid to erect the bridge for the appropriated sum of $1,000, the commission recommended an additional appropriation in order to accept a bid of $1,200.
Bandy, Richard Lewis (Sc 3305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bandy, Richard Lewis (Sc 3305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3305. Letter, 9 November 2018, of Richard L. Bandy, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Mary Alice Oliver, in response to her article in a local magazine about Massey’s Mill in Warren County, Kentucky. Bandy provides recollections of a water-powered mill located on property owned by his family on Middle Fork Creek at Drake, Kentucky. Includes two photographs of the mill, a map showing its location, and Oliver’s reply to the letter.
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Weir Family Collection (Mss 651), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 651. Letters and papers of the Weir family of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and related members of the Rumsey and Miller families. Well-to-do merchants and farmers, the Weirs were leading supporters of the Union during the Civil War, providing advocacy, financial support, and military service. Includes full-text scans of a letter from the brother of steamboat pioneer James Rumsey defending his legacy as an innovator; James Weir's journal; James Weir's will; the annotated recollections of Edward Weir, Sr.; and two letters from former Weir slaves recolonized in Liberia (Click on "Additional files" below).
Abraham, John E., 1844-1925 (Sc 3233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Abraham, John E., 1844-1925 (Sc 3233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3233. Letter, 8 March 1886, of John E. Abraham, Beattyville, Kentucky, to Captain Thomas J. Hardin, Monterey, Kentucky. He discusses timber transactions and meeting with a supplier of stone in connection with a bid to construct dikes on the Ohio River.