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01 Glasgow High
School Class of 1925
02 Buck Creek School, 1914, contributed
by Ginny McGuire-Elliott
03 Antioch School, contributed by
Ginny McGuire-Elliott. This is a photo taken in 1992 of Jacob
Chapiesky from Columbia, South. Carolina and his great grandfather,
Russell McGuire from Fairbury, Illinois at the Antioch school which
Russell attended starting first grade in 1921
04 Slick
Rock School, contributed by Christy Bennett. Slick Rock School, east
of Glasgow in Barren County.
05 Slick Rock School,
contributed by Lois Card. From Lois' Grandmother's collection (Lois
McCoy). She is in the photo somewhere, we believe her to be the
little girl in the front row, far right... It was taken by Palmore
Studios, Glasgow. Lois' grandma's (delayed) birth certificate used
the school census for April 4, 1912, Barren Co, Slick Rock Dist #51
(?) as one of the verifications for her age and parentage. Her
father, John McCoy, and his daughters resided in Barren Co until
1915.
06 Post card
dated 1907, the Glasgow Graded School on Liberty Street. Early
Glasgow pictures which are the courtesy of the South Central
Kentucky Cultural Center, Glasgow, KY |
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07 Sunny Side School on Branstetter
Road between Hwy 31-E and Hiseville - submitted by Edith Bastin
08 Caverna Elementary School on Hwy
31-W in Cave City - submitted by Edith Bastin
09 Confederate Get Together,
Compliments of The Cave City Progress - Bicentennial Issue, March
1974, Glasgow Republican, Glasgow Daily Times. CONFEDERATE
GET-TOGETHER -- Cave City has always been a favorite place in this
area for get-togethers of a xx kinds. This photo taken in 1909 shows
a gathering of Barren County Confederate veterans
10 Compliments of The Cave City
Progress - Bicentennial Issue, March 1974, Glasgow Republican,
Glasgow Daily Times. PROHIBITIONISTS--The Women's Christian
Temperance Union whipped up a whirlwind of opposition to legal
liquor sales in the Cave City area about 1910, culmination twenty
years later with a national movement to outlaw legal sales. Shown
here is a group meeting in 1910 to hear defeated presidential
candidate William Jennings Bryan, who toured the country in behalf
of prohibition
11 Shirley Family Reunion, Compliments of Mabel Ferguson of
Indianapolis, IN
12 The Big Blue Spring now located in
Metcalfe Co, but at the time of early settlement, was in Barren Co.
It was an early landmark, where two Indian trails crossed and was
used as a reference point for early surveys in the area |
