Hardin County

Meranda L. Caswell

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9780738542560
• eBook ISBN: 9781439617298
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

The history of Hardin County is defined by such notable figures as John Hardin, the Revolutionary War colonel for whom the area is named, and Abraham Lincoln, who was born here in 1809. Today tourists and residents can visit historic sites that commemorate these individuals and those lesser-known, such as John Y. Hill, who built the stately home that is now the Brown-Pusey House, a museum and library. In Images of America: Hardin County, vintage photographs depict the past of the county seat, Elizabethtown, and also that of the smaller towns of Colesburg, Glendale, Hardin Springs, and White Mills. The
communities of Stithton and Grahamton are pictured as they
were before being replaced by the Fort Knox Bullion Depository and military post. Featuring images from the Brown-Pusey House and the community, this volume takes readers down Dixie Highway to appreciate the historic towns and natural beauty of Hardin County.

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19TH CENTURY SCENERY AND PEOPLE

Two ladies and two children (unidentified) in the 1880s are dressed for the winter and are next to a tree with ice on it and a picket fence. Photography began in 1839, and the pictures were produced on metal and glass. This photograph was from the first Kodak camera that was released to the public in the 1880s. The photographs produced were round on rectangular paper. Notice these photographs throughout the book. (Courtesy of Brown-Pusey House.)

Pictured are a lady and child (unidentified) in a horse-driven buggy during the 1890s on a road in Hardin County. Many roads that were used in Hardin County in the 19th century are still used today as public roads and private driveways. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the roads were not carved into the landscape. The people with their horses, stagecoaches, and horses and buggies followed the landscape. roads did not occur until after World War I. (Courtesy of Brown-Pusey House.)

Pictured is a snow-covered fork in the road during the 1890s in Hardin County with its destination unidentified. People have enjoyed taking photographs of the scenery since photography began. Dr. William Allen Pusey authored the book The Wilderness Road to Kentucky. In this book, he photographed many roads, landscapes and areas of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries that his great-grandfather had written about in his journal and he had walked in the late 18th century. His photographs and slides are in the archives of the Brown-Pusey House. (Courtesy of Brown-Pusey House.)

Sallie Pusey (at left) and two others are riding horses near the Warfield home in the 1890s in Hardin County. Sallie’s mother, Malvina Penelope Warfield, was the daughter of Roderick Warfield and Ann Stockett. Malvinia married first an Adams and then Anthony H. Cunningham. The two children born were Sallie Warfield and Malvina Hundley Cunningham. Malvina Cunningham first married Garnett Duncan Ripley and had a daughter, Mary Louise Ripley. Then she married Harry McGoodwin. (Courtesy of Brown-Pusey House.)

Sallie Pusey (at left) and three others are riding horses near the Warfield home in the 1890s in Hardin County. A small boy is walking beside them. Horse and mule trade was profitable in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. Elizabethtown and Hardin County was the world’s leading seller of horses and mules during this time period. (Courtesy of Brown-Pusey House.)

Pictured before 1920 is the McKinney home where Elizabeth Robinson, Mrs. Hardin Helm, and the wife of the late Hobson James lived in Elizabethtown. This house, like the Pusey House before it, was torn down and rebuilt on Mulberry Street in the 1870s. Dr. Robert Burns Pusey and Bell Brown had their first son, William Allen Pusey, in 1865. Their second son, Alfred Brown Pusey, was born in 1869. (Courtesy of Brown-Pusey House.)

The McKinney home, where a Robinson, a Helm, and a James had lived in Elizabethtown, was, like the Pusey House before it, torn down and rebuilt on Mulberry Street. Notice the addition of the front porch and people working in the garden area after 1920. (Courtesy of Brown-Pusey House.)

This building is located in Elizabethtown on North Mulberry Street. Roderick Warfield lived on this street. He died in 1862. His wife, Ann, took care of their children Thomas Noble, Joshua, George, Roderick, John Augustus, Mary (who married a Haynes), Malvina P. (who married an Adams), Eleanor (who married a McGill), Rachel (who married a Johnson), and Manelid Warfield. John Augustus Warfield drowned crossing the Ohio River in 1863. His personal effects are at the Brown-Pusey House. (Courtesy of Brown-Pusey House.)

Sallie and Bell Pusey are on the stairs of the side entrance to the Pusey house on Mulberry Street. This house is across street from the current Kelley law office. Bell Brown Pusey was a supporter of community activit...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• One - TOWNS ALONG U.S. 31 WEST
• Two - LINCOLN HERITAGE
• Three - GLENDALE AND WHITE MILLS
• Four - WEST OF U.S. 31 WEST
• Five - WARS
• Six - EAST OF U.S. 31 WEST
• Seven - HILL’S HOTEL
• Eight - 19TH CENTURY SCENERY AND PEOPLE