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  1. Courthouse Clock will chime and keep time again
    Posted: 2024-06-25, Story ID: 131838

  2. June Lanterns & Tombstones tour features many families
    Posted: 2024-06-10, Story ID: 131729

  3. Historic Giles House in Knifley opens Saturday
    Posted: 2024-05-29, Story ID: 131610

  4. Black Gold and the local connection
    Posted: 2024-05-16, Story ID: 131496

  5. John Muir's Exploration in Kentucky
    Posted: 2024-05-11, Story ID: 131449

  6. Anderson Cemetery is site of Trabue and wife Mary
    Posted: 2024-04-04, Story ID: 131088

  7. State gives $1 million to historic Adair Courthouse
    Posted: 2024-04-01, Story ID: 131035

  8. ACGHC would like you to share your family history
    Posted: 2024-03-22, Story ID: 130952

  9. Granny Waggener and Christmases past
    Posted: 2023-12-26, Story ID: 129973

  10. Fox chase a few days before Christmas 1869
    Posted: 2023-12-21, Story ID: 129944

  11. Lighthouse Restaurant was first Porter's Restaurant
    Posted: 2023-12-19, Story ID: 129919

  12. Adair Genealogical Society to meet Dec. 4
    Posted: 2023-11-29, Story ID: 129694

  13. Shot, Stabbed, Hanged history walk drew 140
    Posted: 2023-11-03, Story ID: 129403

  14. Shot - Stabbed - Hanged - and More starts at 7pmCT
    Posted: 2023-10-27, Story ID: 129319

  15. Circle R feature continues to get additions
    Posted: 2023-10-26, Story ID: 129307

  16. Silent City: Hershel Clay Baker by Dave Thomas
    Posted: 2023-10-23, Story ID: 129267

  17. Dr. Charles Montgomery Russell featured at Silent City
    Posted: 2023-10-18, Story ID: 129210

  18. Silent City 2023: Professor and Mrs. A.H. Ballard
    Posted: 2023-10-16, Story ID: 129177

  19. Silent City 2023: Matthew and Tranquilla Armstrong
    Posted: 2023-10-14, Story ID: 129141

  20. Lee Ann Jessee was Rosa Flowers Grissom in Silent City
    Posted: 2023-10-12, Story ID: 129110

  21. Photo Contest being held at Genealogy & History Center
    Posted: 2023-09-27, Story ID: 128923

  22. Search is on for past MCHS yearbooks
    Posted: 2023-09-24, Story ID: 128891

  23. How do we know it's time for lunch without the clock
    Posted: 2023-08-16, Story ID: 128449

  24. DAR Heritage explored at Adair Genealogy Meeting
    Posted: 2023-08-15, Story ID: 128433

  25. Kennedy's mother visited Columbia in 1960
    Posted: 2023-07-08, Story ID: 128009

  26. Honeymoon at Dreamland, September 1964
    Posted: 2023-05-10, Story ID: 127327

  27. Historic Metcalfe Courthouse Museum open Saturdays
    Posted: 2023-05-05, Story ID: 127274

  28. DNA and family heritage is focus in Genealogy meeting
    Posted: 2023-04-05, Story ID: 126829

  29. Metcalfe Historical Society to meet Monday
    Posted: 2023-02-19, Story ID: 126187

  30. Headless Horseman, Ichabod Crane still popular
    Posted: 2022-10-31, Story ID: 124624

  31. Sharing historic photos from Tupman collection
    Posted: 2022-10-28, Story ID: 124596

  32. Adair County, Iowa - one of four Adairs in the US
    Posted: 2022-08-01, Story ID: 123453

  33. Day Trip: discovering the headwaters of the Green River
    Posted: 2022-07-04, Story ID: 123094

  34. Bird sounds
    Posted: 2022-06-11, Story ID: 122803

  35. Tornado of April 27, 1971 - a first person account
    Posted: 2022-06-04, Story ID: 122729

  36. Gosser Ridge hit by Tornado April 27, 1971
    Posted: 2022-05-21, Story ID: 122550

  37. Tornado April 27, 1971: Numbed citizenry, communications, power, dead
    Posted: 2022-05-03, Story ID: 122312

  38. Tornado April 27, 1971: Six lost their lives in Adair County
    Posted: 2022-04-30, Story ID: 122267

  39. Tornado April 27, 1971: Angry streak of destruction
    Posted: 2022-04-29, Story ID: 122256

  40. Letter: Pyrus needs to be added to community map
    Posted: 2021-10-18, Story ID: 119276

  41. History of the Columbia-Campbellsville stagecoach
    Posted: 2020-09-15, Story ID: 112739

  42. Stones at Trabue Russell House used to form a garden
    Posted: 2020-07-08, Story ID: 111586

  43. History: Adair County 'Son' Parker Hardin French
    Posted: 2019-10-19, Story ID: 106867

  44. Write your memoirs for people 100 years from today
    Posted: 2019-05-05, Story ID: 103813

  45. Marilyn Stivers: Ramona Wheeler 1st ever Miss Adair Co. Fair
    Posted: 2018-09-03, Story ID: 99327

  46. Miss Adair County Fair 1958, Zona Bryant photo finally found
    Posted: 2018-08-24, Story ID: 99143

  47. Mike Watson finds date Zona Bryant was Miss AC Fair - 1958
    Posted: 2018-08-23, Story ID: 99122

  48. Edmonton time capsule unlike few, if any, others
    Posted: 2018-08-19, Story ID: 99062

  49. Book signing for Lanny Tucker book 'Harp's Head'
    Posted: 2018-08-09, Story ID: 98904

  50. Meeting to plan ACHS 40th reunion is 7 Aug 2018 in Columbia
    Posted: 2018-08-05, Story ID: 98815

  51. Reader helps to ID Photo #76239
    Posted: 2018-08-05, Story ID: 98799

  52. Query: Joyce Groce asks about Marcums of Sulphur Well, KY
    Posted: 2018-07-30, Story ID: 98709

  53. Fredia Melton: In Memory Birthday - Valerie Dawn Melton Keith, (1973-2003)
    Posted: 2018-07-25, Story ID: 98612

  54. Kentucky Historical society has new director, Scott Alvey
    Posted: 2018-07-23, Story ID: 98569

  55. Query #98550 reply for Cliff Bottoms: re Mit Quinn
    Posted: 2018-07-23, Story ID: 98567

  56. Query: Cliff Bottoms seeks information on his 'Granda'
    Posted: 2018-07-21, Story ID: 98550

  57. Local History & Genealogy Dept. busy place on Thu 19 Jul 2018 - ALBUM
    Posted: 2018-07-19, Story ID: 98507

  58. Thai Cave rescue reminder of Chris Bennett story on Floyd Collins
    Posted: 2018-07-11, Story ID: 98367

  59. A brief lineage of the Page Drug Store and its successors , c. 1870-1982
    Posted: 2018-07-10, Story ID: 98336

  60. QUERY: Is a script for Affair at Tucker's Station extant?
    Posted: 2018-06-17, Story ID: 97944

  61. Frances Salyers: Phillip Coffey story on Meat Skin Road name.
    Posted: 2018-06-11, Story ID: 97827

  62. Wanda Beard - Yes, Reed Combest lived at Joppa
    Posted: 2018-06-11, Story ID: 97823

  63. Mike Watson: Darlene Campbell Melungeon program a sensation!
    Posted: 2018-06-10, Story ID: 97818

  64. Story Lawrence Gilpin told Hunter Durham of 'Meatskin' Road
    Posted: 2018-06-09, Story ID: 97805

  65. History Query: How did 'Meatskin Road' get the name?
    Posted: 2018-06-08, Story ID: 97788

  66. William Gimbel: Memorial Day 2018 in Joppa, KY
    Posted: 2018-05-28, Story ID: 97588

  67. Vonnie Kolbenschlag: The stone faces on courthouse columns
    Posted: 2018-05-23, Story ID: 97481

  68. Query: Anyone remember Inis McKinney winning baby contest
    Posted: 2018-05-16, Story ID: 97317

  69. Maury asks: Did Reed Combest live on Joppa farm???
    Posted: 2018-05-11, Story ID: 97245

  70. Great attendance at Bart Cain lecture at ACPL
    Posted: 2018-05-09, Story ID: 97203

  71. Jean Cravens shares memories of the 40s
    Posted: 2018-05-06, Story ID: 97153

  72. Glen Wilham answers Query #97038: Different Tim McDonald
    Posted: 2018-05-01, Story ID: 97041

  73. Query: Question on Tim McDonald of Gilpin, Casey Co., KY
    Posted: 2018-05-01, Story ID: 97038

  74. DAVID GREER: Lunch with grandma
    Posted: 2018-04-26, Story ID: 96959

  75. Edmonton is 200! Metcalfe County not quite as old!
    Posted: 2018-04-23, Story ID: 96903

  76. JIM: 80 years ago, Lefty Rosenbaum joined Greenwood Dodgers
    Posted: 2018-04-07, Story ID: 96605

  77. Daniel Trabue to speak: Mr. Richard Phelps, at Adair Co. Library Mon 2 Apr 2018
    Posted: 2018-03-25, Story ID: 96376

  78. Hunter Durham remembers Lewis Coffey's art
    Posted: 2018-03-19, Story ID: 96276

  79. Ann Heskamp Curtis: Of the Town Branch, and much more
    Posted: 2018-03-11, Story ID: 96136

  80. Columbia City Police solve Mammoth Crime - 16 Jun 1970
    Posted: 2018-03-03, Story ID: 95986

  81. Myrtle found at the old Scott place
    Posted: 2018-03-02, Story ID: 95949

  82. Commission on Women seeks nominations for History Maker award
    Posted: 2018-02-23, Story ID: 95850

  83. Hale & Partin expeditions covertly explored Coffey Cave
    Posted: 2018-02-23, Story ID: 95839

  84. Larry Walker: There IS a cave on Sales F. Coffey lot
    Posted: 2018-02-21, Story ID: 95807

  85. George Rice: Sister lived across street from Hancock Hotel
    Posted: 2018-02-21, Story ID: 95800

  86. Mike Watson: Photo 77315 - Everyone loves a parade!
    Posted: 2018-02-21, Story ID: 95795

  87. Hunter Durham: Stopping the bus on icy Muldraugh Hill
    Posted: 2018-02-20, Story ID: 95781

  88. Mike Watson: Sep 1942 difficult, but inspirational, time for U.S.A
    Posted: 2018-02-16, Story ID: 95717

  89. Mitzi Bault: Grandpa Waggener's WWII ration card
    Posted: 2018-02-15, Story ID: 95695

  90. JIM: Chelf Motor Co. became Columbia Motor Co - Aug 1928
    Posted: 2018-02-08, Story ID: 95562

  91. George Rice: Mr. Arnold Coomer really loved pawpaws
    Posted: 2018-02-06, Story ID: 95519

  92. Hunter Durham: Coomer's stored law records after hotel fire
    Posted: 2018-02-06, Story ID: 95510

  93. You could buy almost anything at Hob's Store in Gradyville
    Posted: 2018-02-04, Story ID: 95478

  94. Headlines from Adair County News, February 1943
    Posted: 2018-02-04, Story ID: 95474

  95. Mike Watson: Adair County as seat of learning, in the law
    Posted: 2018-01-30, Story ID: 95385

  96. Bicycles, Lunatics and a Crazy Old Witch
    Posted: 2018-01-29, Story ID: 95380

  97. Frances Salyers: Revelation of plans for Old Roley Schoolhouse
    Posted: 2018-01-26, Story ID: 95321

  98. JIM: Epperson-Jeffries-Collins hack service to/from Columbia
    Posted: 2018-01-20, Story ID: 95199

  99. Ken Hill hosts primitives encampment W of Glens Fork, KY
    Posted: 2018-01-15, Story ID: 95068

  100. Mike Watson: The Gilmer Brothers of Adair Co., KY/War of 1812
    Posted: 2018-01-08, Story ID: 94924

  101. Miss Victoria Browning-Pike: Greater Bliss Historical Moment
    Posted: 2018-01-07, Story ID: 94903

  102. Susie Grant wrote concise, engrossing Neatsville, KY history
    Posted: 2017-12-25, Story ID: 94692

  103. Mike Watson: Memories of Christmases Past
    Posted: 2017-12-24, Story ID: 94669

  104. Brenda McQueary remembers magical time at Nell's
    Posted: 2017-12-20, Story ID: 94602

  105. Writer remembers buying first wallet at Nell's Variety
    Posted: 2017-12-18, Story ID: 94552

  106. Nell's Variety 5/10 brings back memories for kid at heart
    Posted: 2017-12-17, Story ID: 94551

  107. Nell's was a giant treasure chest - a wonderland of the 60s
    Posted: 2017-12-16, Story ID: 94536

  108. Vonnie Kolbenschlag: Fill-in notes on Judge Baker's story
    Posted: 2017-12-07, Story ID: 94344

  109. Melewi wants directions, more information about Hurt House
    Posted: 2017-12-06, Story ID: 94327

  110. JIM: Hot deals in 1957 at Columbia's White Cash & Kroger Stores
    Posted: 2017-11-19, Story ID: 94051

  111. Birthday Wish: I need an Angel to guide me
    Posted: 2017-11-17, Story ID: 94024

  112. JIM: 1929 upheaval in funeral business started 88 year tradition
    Posted: 2017-11-05, Story ID: 93763

  113. Election Return, Adair County, 6 Aug 1863 - Thomas Bramlette
    Posted: 2017-10-24, Story ID: 93519

  114. ACHS '62 reunion: Dr. Stephens rights a 55 year old injustice
    Posted: 2017-10-22, Story ID: 93492

  115. Jackson Brower: On Gordon Crump's mentoring young journalist
    Posted: 2017-10-22, Story ID: 93488

  116. Licenses Plates: A word on low numbered plates in Adair County
    Posted: 2017-10-10, Story ID: 93278

  117. Silent City 2017 - Eleventh Annual Event a near perfect one
    Posted: 2017-10-08, Story ID: 93239

  118. Voices from the Past, Greensburg Cemetery, Thu 5 Oct 2017
    Posted: 2017-09-25, Story ID: 92966

  119. Mike Crain: Cocanougher kin read CM in Texas, C-ville, Columbia
    Posted: 2017-09-16, Story ID: 92795

  120. Mystery Church: Dale Burton thinks it was at Spout Springs
    Posted: 2017-09-07, Story ID: 92595

  121. Annual Class Reunion Columbia HS Class of 1953 - 2 Sep 2017
    Posted: 2017-08-23, Story ID: 92325

  122. Mike Watson: Reckoning time via the Eclipse
    Posted: 2017-08-21, Story ID: 92279

  123. Great Read for those who were teens of the 1980's and 90's
    Posted: 2017-08-20, Story ID: 92257

  124. Miss Victoria claims kin to Virginia Sparks Wonderling
    Posted: 2017-08-12, Story ID: 92133

  125. Virginia Sparks Wonderling comments on G-G Grandfather, Josiah Hunter
    Posted: 2017-08-11, Story ID: 92124


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