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Two photos of a festival downtown on First Street and Main. Can anyone identify what festival this is?
Snow Alley was another name for the alley that runs East/West between Adams and Alves, South of Clay and North of Dixon/MLK. It’s had other names such as…
Cunningham Cemetery is located on the NW corner of The Bridges Golf Course. This was once the farm of William and Elizabeth Cunninngham who are buried here. The…
Frank G. Schmitt’s Smoke Shop, 226 N. Main Street, ran a 3 part advertisement in the Gleaner containing twisted word sentences in 1911. 1) EW ASHER URO OSTIFPR…
Ruth Taylor was only 18 years old when she tragically died of burns from accidentally catching fire at 431 S Alves in 1910. She was living with William…
The Gleaner has made arrangements to give the greatest popularty contest ever offered by a newspaper outside of the metropolitan press.Twenty young ladies will be given a free…
Albert Hodge Abbott was born 28 June 1875 to Robert H Abbott (1849-1899) and Sarah A. “Sallie” Fenley (1850-1891). Albert was born and reared on a farm in…
The first city high school was built in 1888 at 531 Washington St, and remained the city high school until Barret Manual Training High School opened in 1910….
I thought this was a pretty neat photo of the 1957/1958 Douglas High School Bisons Basketball Team. It’s currently displayed at the John F Kennedy Center.
Dr Elijah Branson was born On 15 Nov 1855 in Hopkins Co KY. Elijah Brandon married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Emmons Webb (15 Nov 1865 – 14 Mar 1950) on…
Edward John Haley was born 26 June 1854 to Joseph Haley and Bridget O’Donohue. Edward married Mary C. Reutlinger (1864-1934) on 2 Oct 1889 and they had 4…
Post Office Reports of Site Locations, 1837–1950 Reference: Roll 218: Kentucky: Henderson – Jackson