The Old Landmarks

This article was written in February 1938 by Mr. Hollis C. Franklin, a beloved citizen of Marion and Crittenden County.  

Today, 81 years later, it still holds true, and it's really sad to think of all our landmarks that have been destroyed, fallen down, and even moved from our County.

Old Landmarks in Crittenden County, as they are in most other places, are passing one by one.  

The old  Crittenden County Courthouse being razed in 1961 for a new more modern one.

The old Covered Bridge on the old Fords Ferry Road is and has been for years, plank by plank going.  

 The old covered bridge in its last days.

The Log Houses on our roads one by one are being supplanted by newer and more modern homes.

The men and women who built and lived in those log houses were the real pioneers of Crittenden County, the ones who helped to build a county.

Stone chimneys, beautiful even now after years of use and exposure to wind, and sun and storm.

Copperas Spring School House, one of the last of the old one-room schools, was torn down in 2014.

One-room schools in the county are also, one by one, going the way of the things of yesterday.  Broken window panes, unpainted surfaces, patched roofs, decaying outbuildings.  Even though they are outdated and are no more useful, let it be said to their credit, they have done their part nobly in making life happier, lives more useful.

Very few of these wonderful old grocery store building are even left today.   This one was the Roy and Geneva Humphrey Grocery Store in Mexico, Ky.  A once busy fluorspar mining community.   

The old grocery stores that were once a vital part of all our little communities, were not needed, as people began to travel to larger towns and get their groceries and other items from the newer super markets.

We have lost so many of our Landmarks in the passing of years.  Time waits for no one.