Forgotten Passages

Crittenden County Kentucky history and genealogy.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Land For One-Time Smelter Plant Now Preserved

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Finally, after 56 years of being bargained and traded for, will the beautiful hills, rocky bluffs and lush  forests of the old Bells Mi...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Our Fluorspar History

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 Our Fluorspar industry, we thought last year,(2012) was on its way back but once again the hope of that dream has faded into the backgro...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Our Fluorspar History

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Our Fluorspar history goes back to the1800, some early items in The Crittenden Press tell of some of the activities of the mines.  In Dec....
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Thomas J. Yandell, Marion Business 1894

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Thomas J. Yandell, Jr., one of the best known men in the county in 1894.  He was born in Crittenden County in 1859 and was reared on the...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Granville Franklin Clement, Early Crittenden County Settler

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Granville Franklin Clement was born in 1808 in Virginia.  He was the eldest son of Isam and Sarah Rudd Clement. In 1818, Granville'...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Odessa School Notes, Jan. 9, 1911

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So many little one room school houses dotted the country side during the 1900's, their history almost gone now.  I wonder if there are...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Old and New

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Some of the store fronts on Main Street have changed over the years.  Some are fortunate and have been restored but still have the same ori...
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Brenda Travis-Underdown is the official historian of Marion and Crittenden County. Her columns appear regularly in the Crittenden Press, a weekly newspaper serving the community since 1879.
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