BARREN COUNTY PHOTOS
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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

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


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