Estill County

January 8, 2024

There’s not much that can beat a drive through verdant Kentucky countryside on a summer day. A few years ago, I was on my way back from somewhere (the location often isn’t as important as the trip along the way) when I decided to meander down a road adjacent to the Kentucky River in (read more)

Category: Estill County

Tags: #estillcountyky, #kentuckyarchitecture, #kentuckyplaces, #pryseky, #texolaky

May 4, 2023

I couldn’t do anything about the crazy quilt of power lines marring the view – but they really don’t distract from this important and lovely brick commercial building in downtown Irvine, Kentucky. Built in 1916, the three-story, brick B.F. Williams building has a corner entrance and an impressive modillioned cornice. Its size and scale, (read more)

Category: Estill County

Tags: #irvineky, #mainstreet

March 20, 2019

Historic digitized newspapers are one of the great positives of the Internet age, and capable of diverting my attention for hours upon end. I’ve often chuckled over the name of a long-vanished Kentucky newspaper, The Spout Spring Times, which made its debut on January 18, 1896. To my delight, I found myself in that same (read more)

Categories: Abandoned houses, Estill County

Tags: Estill County, historic log houses, J.E. Burgher Jr, Kentucky Digital Library, Spout Springs

Kentucky Places: Pryse and Texola, Estill County, Kentucky

B.F. Willliams Building, Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky

Log and Frame House, Spout Springs, Estill County, Kentucky

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