Monroe County

August 9, 2023

A great many thoughts clamor through my head whenever I spy an especially interesting historic building. I wonder about the builder, the life story of the owner, and how this particular structure came to exist. In the case of my journey a few years ago through the small town of Gamaliel, Kentucky, I tucked all (read more)

Category: Monroe County

Tags: #gamalielky, #thejacksonhouse

May 8, 2019

Although I often employ my smartphone to help me navigate unfamiliar places, when exploring Kentucky, I prefer to stick to my paper atlas…where miles of roads unfurl enticingly, place names dotted here and there. Which is how I ended up on the Kentucky/Tennessee line yesterday, searching for the community of Bugtussle. Apparently it was a (read more)

Categories: Kentucky Places, Monroe County

Tags: Beverly Hillbillies, Bugtussle

October 22, 2017

I’ll likely never help forge a community out of a wilderness in quite the same manner as the first EuroAmerican settlers in Kentucky. (Spending hour after sweaty hour ridding the land of invasive honeysuckle is satisfying work, but…not the same.) The sheer magnitude of building everything from scratch always amazes me, and never more when (read more)

Categories: Churches, Kentucky churches, Monroe County, National Register of Historic Places

Tags: Kentucky State Parks, log churches, Monroe County Kentucky, Old Mulkey Meeting House

Whimsical Wednesday: The William Page/Jackson House, Gamaliel, Kentucky

Kentucky Places: Bugtussle, Monroe County, Kentucky

Old Mulkey Meeting House, Monroe County, Kentucky

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