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Bowling Green, Kentucky - Waterworks (Sc 3488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2019

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Waterworks (Sc 3488), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of documents (Click on "Additional Files" below for Manuscripts Small Collection 3488. “Changes in Plans and Specifications for Water Works Improvements, Contracts Nos. 1 to 5, Incl[usive] for the City of Bowling Green, Bowling Green, Kentucky, December 12, 1947.”


Bridges - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2018

Bridges - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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 Dec 2018

Bandy, Richard Lewis (Sc 3305), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


Abraham, John E., 1844-1925 (Sc 3233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2018

Abraham, John E., 1844-1925 (Sc 3233), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.


Louisville And Nashville Railroad - Horse Cave, Kentucky (Sc 2951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2015

Louisville And Nashville Railroad - Horse Cave, Kentucky (Sc 2951), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2951. Correspondence, sketches, blueprints and drawings relating to the Louisville & Nashville Railroad depot at Horse Cave, Kentucky, the adjacent tracks, roads and properties, and licenses for use of railroad rights-of-way. Blueprints and drawings have been catalogued as AD 1515.


Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Mss 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Fort Williams - Glasgow, Kentucky (Mss 531), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 531. Correspondence, research, historical and archaeological reports, contracts, budgets and other documents relating to the 1970s excavation and restoration of Fort Williams, a Civil War fortification at Glasgow, Kentucky.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2014

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1328. Letters, written by South Union, Kentucky Shaker leaders, to leaders of the Hancock Shaker Society, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, discussing the building of mills and dam, economic conditions, and religious affairs. The original letters are in the Library of Congress.


Johnson, Leland Ross, 1937-2014 (Sc 2788), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2013

Johnson, Leland Ross, 1937-2014 (Sc 2788), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2788. Typed research notes on notecards relating to reservoir development on the Green River in Kentucky.


Green River - Locks And Dams (Sc 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Green River - Locks And Dams (Sc 1009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1009. Survey for tract of land at southern end of Lock and Dam Number 5 on Green River at Glenmore in Warren County, Kentucky.


Orrahood, M. David, 1923-2000 (Sc 2657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2013

Orrahood, M. David, 1923-2000 (Sc 2657), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2657. Paper by M. David Orrahood titled “History of Green River Country” in Kentucky. Paper deals chiefly with the history of transportation and commerce along the Green River in south central Kentucky.


Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2012

Hardy, Nathaniel (Sc 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 524. Receipt written15 June 1836 by Nathaniel Hardy of Day, Schmitz and Baldwin, Louisville, Kentucky, to Eli McLean, South Union, Kentucky, for payment of $300 on castings for water works for the Shaker Society at South Union.


Farmer, James E. (Sc 1696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Farmer, James E. (Sc 1696), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1696. Paper: "River Transportation in Kentucky" written by James E. Farmer for a Western Kentucky State Teachers College class. He writes about the history and economic benefits of Kentucky's rivers.


Hines, James Richard, 1903-1995 (Sc 1706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Hines, James Richard, 1903-1995 (Sc 1706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1706. Statement of James Richard Hines, Bowling Green, Kentucky, related to expanded navigation of the Green and Barren Rivers and the potential for regional economic growth.


Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Moore, Mary (Taylor) Leiper, 1885-1973 (Sc 1714), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1714. Letter from Mary Leiper Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Ben Johnson, Bardstown, Kentucky, 27 September 1938, related to covered bridges at Bowling Green and Bardstown. Includes copy of an act passed by the Kentucky General Assembly authorizing reconstruction of bridges destroyed by Confederate guerrilla Billy Magruder.


Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Davenport, Charles, 1862-1937 (Sc 1590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1590. Letter to the editor (Park City Daily News?) by Charles Davenport, reminiscing about growing up in the Warren County, Kentucky community of Greencastle. Includes photos of James Ford and Thomas L. Stephens, builders of the Greencastle lock and dam on Barren River.


Commissioners Report On The Shoals In The Ohio River (Sc 1545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Commissioners Report On The Shoals In The Ohio River (Sc 1545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1545. Photocopy (made in 1970) of handwritten Ohio River survey done in 1819 related to river navigation in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and Indiana. It includes many hand-drawn maps. There is a large, undated map in a pocket on inside back cover.


Greenwood & Massey's Mill Turnpike Company (Sc 1467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2007

Greenwood & Massey's Mill Turnpike Company (Sc 1467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1467. Minute book, 1886-1899, for the Greenwood & Massey's Mill Turnpike Company, Warren County, Kentucky. The last two pages contain a plat and a listing of expenses for the Plano Church Cemetery, 1905-1909.