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41031
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William A. Penn
Editor,
Harrison Heritage News

George D. Slade
1916 ~ 2005
Read the "Our
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whose articles filled out many a page of the Harrison Heritage News.
Cumulative
Subject Index
2000-2006
(Vols.
1-7)
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the volume & issue citation after eac entry below to see the issue in the frame
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the article.
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A |
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Abdallah,
4-8 |
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Abdallah Park Fire, 1-6,
6-7 |
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Addams, Dover,
5-2 |
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African American
marriage records, 7-2 |
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African American
education, literacy,
6-2 |
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African American
history in Cromwell’s Comments,
5-2 |
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African Methodist
Episcopal church,
3-2 |
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Alfaro, Al, 1-5 |
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Ammerman, Esther,
4-1 |
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Antioch, Ky. cyclone,
7-3 |
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Ashbrook Distiller,
2-1,
5-1 |
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Atkinson’s Automatic
Timer,
4-2 |
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Aylmer, Beresford F.,
6-11 |
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B |
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Banneker
School,
3-2,
6-6,
6-10 |
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Barlow Knife, photo,
history, 7-9 |
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Barlow, Milt, minstrel,
5-2 |
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Barns, Handy Farm, 7-1 |
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Barton, E.E., 7-3 |
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Baseball pitcher (Strother),
1-6 |
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Battle
Grove
Cemetery,
1-3, 1-6,
2-11;
city lot,
3-8 |
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Battle of
Cynthiana,
6-9 |
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Bell, U.R.,
6-6 |
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Berry Bank
Robbery,
6-1 |
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Berry,
Col. George,
2-9;
photo,
5-9;
smokehouse photo,
5-8 |
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Berry,
Ky., 1-4, 1-5,
6-1,
6-8 |
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Biancke’s Restaurant,
1-5;
4-10 |
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Bibliography of
Harrison County history, 1-8 |
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Black history in
museum,
3-2; Brown,
Frazer slaves, 7-1; Civil War troops listed, 7-2; Joseph Frazier sailor;
marriage records, 7-2 |
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Black soldiers,
3-10 |
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Blackburn genealogy,
3-7 |
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Book Reviews: Kentucky
History (Bryant), 1-8; Bluegrass Confederate (Guerrant), 1-1; The Slave
Trade; Southern Slavery and the Law, 1-2 |
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Boone, Daniel, Harrison
Co. surveys, 7-5 |
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Bottle collection,
4-6 |
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Boyd, Lucinda, 1-8,
2-4,
2-5 |
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Bridge, covered,
photo,
6-5 |
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Broadwell, Asbury
residence, photo, 7-8 |
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Brow, Norman, 2-2 |
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Brown, William, Col.,
7-1 |
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Buffalo trace, 1-5 |
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Buggies,
4-5 |
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Burma Shave,
3-11 |
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C |
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Calendars in museum,
4-3 |
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Camp Chase print,
5-9 |
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Camp Frazer,
3-6 |
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Cason, Jack, 2-2 |
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Chestnut Hall
(Ridgeway, Handy Farm), 7-1 |
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Chickens, raising,
4-3 |
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Christmas trees,
4-12 |
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Chronicles of
Cynthiana, 1-8 |
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Civil War Reenactment,
1-6,
2-9 |
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Civil War: black
sailors, 7-2; civilian
arrests,
4-3;
5-9;
Col. Berry’s home,
2-9,
courthouse,
2-12,
driving tour, 1-1,
2-6;
Battle of Keller’s Bridge journal, 1-6; first battle account (1905),
4-9;
preservation,
4-9;
mural of Morgan’s Raid, 1-8; railroad,
4-9;
W. W. Cleary and Lincoln’s assassination, 1-2; Smith House,
4-2;
List of black troops, 7-2; Morgan's attack print, 7-7; Reenacment 2006, 7-7; museum exhibits,
5-9;
black soldiers,
3-10;
Camp Frazer,
3-6;
city council resolutions, 3-3 |
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Clark, Thomas D.,
4-11 |
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Claysville history
notes,
5-11 |
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Claysville, 1877 map,
5-11;
after battles,
6-8;
letters,
6-8;
1877 map,
5-11 |
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Cleary, W.W., 7-4 . |
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Cole, LeRoy, Rev.,
4-10 |
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Coleman, James,
5-1 |
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Coleman, William Tell,
2-2 |
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Coleman-Desha house,
5-1 |
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Colemansville,
1884 Cyclone, 1-5, 7-3 |
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Commercial Hotel,
4-2 |
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Conrey Chapel School
students, 7-3 |
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Conrey, Ky., 7-3 |
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Conrey, T.H., 7-3 |
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Cook, Anna Eliza,
6-7 |
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Courthouse, 1-6,
2-6,
2-12;
howitzer, 6-11; WWI memorial, scrap drive, 7-11 |
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Courthouses, 6-11 |
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Covered bridge, 1-1,
2-4 |
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Covered bridge dam, 1-5 |
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Crofford, J. J., 2-1 |
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Cromwell, Henry,
2-4 |
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Cromwell, John M., 1-9;
sleds and skates, 7-12 |
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Cromwell’s Comments,
1-9; black history excerpts,
5-2 |
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Crutchfield, W. W.,
6-4 |
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Cummins, Juble Early, 7-3 |
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“Cynthiana” locomotive,
4-3 |
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Cynthiana businesses
1931,
4-10 |
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Cynthiana Carriage Company,
4-8 |
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Cynthiana Electric
Light,
2-7 |
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Cynthiana in 1950s,
4-2 |
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Cynthiana model town, 7-4 |
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Cynthiana named, 1-9 |
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Cynthiana Overall
article,
3-11 |
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Cynthiana Overall Co.,
2-4 |
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Cynthiana pro baseball
team (Cobblers),
4-1 |
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Cynthiana public schools history,
6-10 |
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Cynthiana established, 6-11 |
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Cynthiana-Harrison
County Museum 10th anniversary,
5-7 |
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Cynthiana-Harrison
Trust, 1-6 |
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Cynthiana-mfg. goods in Museum,
6-6 |
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Cynthiana-Paris RR, 2-2 |
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Dailey, John, 2-1 |
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Dairies,
4-6 |
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Dam, 1-5 |
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Dates, historic,
1793-1998,
2-3,
2-7 |
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Death Valley Scotty,
1-3 |
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Desha farm,
2-9 |
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Desha smokehouse photo,
5-8 |
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Desha, Joseph,
5-1 |
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Desha, Lucius B.,
photo,
5-9;
4-5 |
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Desha, Lucy Logan,
4-5 |
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Distilleries, 2-1,
2-4 |
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Distilleries, in
museum,
5-1 |
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Douglas, Mattie, photo,
6-4 |
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Doyle, Patrick,
6-2 |
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Drought of 1930,
3-7 |
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Duffy cookbook,
4-7 |
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Duffy family,
5-1 |
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Edgewater Distillery,
2-1 |
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Elmore, Florence, photo, 7-6 |
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Eveleth, Frederick, house photo,
6-4 |
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Eveleth, J. A.,
6-1 |
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Excelsior Distillery,
2-1 |
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Fairgrounds,
5-4,
6-7 |
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Farms, large antebellum, 7-1 |
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Faulconer genealogy,
2-1;
3-5 |
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Faulconer, Bailey
Petty, 2-1 |
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Faulconer, J. B., 2-1 |
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Feeback, Strother, 1-6 |
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Fennel, Joe,
2-4 |
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Fennell horse boot,
3-4 |
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Filson Club Quarterly
collecting, 1-5 |
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Fire department items in
museum,
2-10 |
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Fire department,
4-10 |
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Fires listed,
2-10 |
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Floods, 3-3 |
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Florence, Sara Ann, jailer,
6-9 |
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Fray, Spencer, Civil
War journal, Keller’s Bridge, 1-6 |
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Frazer, Joel C., Dr., 7-1 |
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Frazer, Margaretta,
6-4 |
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Frazier, Joseph, 7-2 |
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Funerary displays museum, 7-10 |
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Genealogy Family Files
at Cynthiana public library, 2-2 |
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German prisoners (farm workers),
6-10 |
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Ghost Boy 1812 House,
6-1 |
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Grater, Fritz,
2-10 |
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Graveyard burials,
3-8 |
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Gregg, Cissy,
4-11 |
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Griffith
farm ,
4-6,
Griffith Tavern, 6-11 |
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Grist Mill Day, 1-3,
2-5,
5-5 |
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Gruell, Dan, 1-4 |
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Gruelle, R. B.,
4-4 |
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Hammon, Neal O., Ky. survey methods, 7-5 |
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Handy Farm edition, 7-1 |
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Handy house,
5-3 |
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Handy House, Ky. Landmark, 7-3 |
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Handy, W.T., 7-1 |
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Hanna Farm,
4-12 |
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Harrison Memorial Hospital,
4-6 |
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Harrison County Historical Society website, 6-11 |
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Harrison County jails history,
6-9 |
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Harrison County map, 1897, 7-3 |
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Harrison County RECC,
2-7,
2-11 |
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Harrison Co., first court, 6-11 |
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Harrison
County
courthouse, 1-6, 1-8, 1-9 |
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Harrison
County
lifestyle recollections 1920s-‘30s,
5-4 |
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Harrison County villages, 7-3 |
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Harrison County's Lost Buildings: Broadwell House, 7-9; Harrison Motor
Company, 7-11 |
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Harrison genealogy,
2-10 |
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Harrison Memorial
Hospital,
4-6 |
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Harrison officials,
1792-97,
5-3 |
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Harrison, Anna,
2-10 |
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Harrison, Benjamin, 1-9 |
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Harrison, Cynthia and
Anna, genealogy,
3-4 |
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Harrison, Cynthia,
2-10 |
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Harrison, Robert, 1-5;
1-9,
2-10 |
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Harrison, Robert, 6-11 |
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Hawkins, T. S., recollections,
6-4 |
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Hemp,
3-4,
5-3 |
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Herrington, Ed, 2-1 |
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Hicks, Heber Luther, 1936
murder story, 7-10; photo, article, on trial, 7-8; funeral, photo, 7-10 |
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Hciks, Jake, 7-8 |
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Hill, Donald C.,
6-10 |
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Hill, Jackie,
2-4 |
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Hinkson, Bill, 1-4 |
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Hinkston’s Addition,
1-5 |
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Hinkston’s Station, 1-4 |
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Historical Society,
2-6 |
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Historians biographies,
1-8, 1-9 |
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Historic preservation,
3-1 |
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Hobson Book Press,
6-6 |
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Hodson family vault,
6-4 |
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Hodson, James M., 1-3,
6-4 |
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Hog days,
5-8 |
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Horse racing,
Abdallah
Park
track, 1-6 |
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Horses, Handy Farm, 7-1 |
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Horses, harness,
6-7 |
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Hot air balloons,
4-7 |
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Howard, Wesley, 7-3 |
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Hunter genealogy,
3-9 |
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Hutton, Jennie, Miss,
7-3 |
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Ice tools, businesses,
in museum, 2-1 |
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Index, Harrison
Heritage News newsletter,
2-1,
3-1;
vol. I, II,
3-1;
subjects to date, 6-12, 7-12 |
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Index, 2005, 6-12; articles vol. 1 – 5, 5-12 |
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Indian Creek bridge,
2-9 |
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Influenza of 1918, 7-6 |
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Jail, 1-2, 1-3,
6-9 |
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January (Cromwell), 2-1 |
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Jett, Curtis, trial,
3-11 |
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Johns, Mrs. Bob,
3-1 |
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Jones, F. N., 6-12 |
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Jones, Samuel, 6-12 |
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Jones, William B.,
6-8 |
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Judy, Chuck,
2-10 |
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K |
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Kawneer,
2-8 |
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Keller, A., Distillery,
2-1 |
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Keller’s Bridge, 2-2 |
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Keller’s Dam,
2-12 |
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Kendall Flour Mill, 1-5 |
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Kentucky Bicentennial
Bookshelf series collecting, 1-5 |
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Kentucky Community Scholars,
6-6 |
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Kentucky Motor Club,
5-1 |
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Kentucky Utilities,
2-7 |
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Kitchen stove,
5-10 |
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Klotter, James C.,
2-4 |
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Ku Klux Klan,
2-7,
3-1,
3-2 |
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Kuhlman, William A.,
photo, 7-10 |
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L.L.L. Highway,
4-12,
5-1 |
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Lady de Jarnette,
6-7 |
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Lafferty genealogy,
4-8 |
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Lail, Miller, 2-2 |
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Lail, Miss Sarah,
6-1 |
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Langley, Abraham, 6-11 |
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Lawson Field,
6-10 |
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Lee, Don,
2-6 |
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Licking River, South
Fork, landmarks in Harrison Co.,
2-8 |
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Licking River lost
barge shipment, 7-5 |
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Lincoln, Abraham,
Harrison County links, 7-4 |
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Lindsay, David,
genealogy query, 7-11 |
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Little Schoolboy
monument,
4-11 |
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Louderback, Elizabeth,
2-5 |
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Lynching, 1-4 |
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Mandolin Club, 1899,
6-4 |
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Manufacturing,
2-4 |
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Maple sugar,
3-6 |
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Market Place,
2-7 |
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Marshal School
teachers,
3-8,
Marshall School,
6-10 |
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Massey, Harvey Joe,
2-3 |
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Maybrier, Coleman,
murdered,
5-12 |
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McDowell, Charles,
house photo,
5-12 |
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McMillian, Samuel, house photos, 6-11 |
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McPheters, James, Dr.,
3-9 |
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Memorabilia (Kay
Wilson, poem),
5-5 |
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Methodist Church
history,
3-11,
4-1;
lot,
4-10 |
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Miller, John, 2-1 |
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Miller, Margaret Teresa
Flora, 7-10 |
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Moody, Ms.,
6-1 |
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Moonshine display at
museum,
3-9 |
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Moore, Bettie S.,
2-4 |
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Moore, William B., Dr.
& flu, 7-6 |
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Morgan, Garret,
2-4 |
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Morgan, Jill,
6-10 |
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Moy Foo,
3-5 |
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Mundy, Sue,
2-12 |
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Museum organization,
1-6 |
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Museum Trust,
2-7 |
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Museum, Church items,
1-6; Civil War items,
2-9 |
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Museum: (funeral
2-11);
agricultural displays,
2-3 |
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Naff, Philip, 6-11 |
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Newkirk, Wesley,
5-1,
6-1 |
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Norman, Evelyn, 6-11 |
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Northern Kentucky History
Day,
3-2 |
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Notes on History of
Renaker-Rutland-Pleasant Green (Penn), 2-1 |
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Oddville, Kentucky, 1-3, 1-4 |
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Ohio troops: 35th O.V.I.,
3-6 |
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Oil, 2-2 |
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Old Cemetery, 1-6 |
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Old Jail, photo, 7-4 |
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Pacing Abdallah, print,
6-7 |
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Patterson, James L.,
2-2,
3-6 |
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Penn, Evelyn Byrd, 2-1,
4-12 |
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Penn, James Samuel, 1-3 |
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Penn, W.A., farm sheep
photo, 7-12 |
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Penn, William A.,
article published, 7-6 |
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Peter, Frances, diary,
2-7 |
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Pfanstiel, Earl,
2-4 |
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Photographers,
5-1 |
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Physician, 1818 advertisement,
1-1 |
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Pickett, Bill,
6-4 |
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Pioneer routes, 1-5 |
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Poholsky, John J.,
photo, 7-10 |
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Poindexter, J.R., 6-9 |
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Political buttons
(museum),
5-11 |
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Post office,
2-3,
2-4,
2-5 |
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Powell, John,
2-5 |
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Privies,
6-5 |
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Prohibition, 2-1 |
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Q |
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Quilt storage,
4-6;
in museum,
6-2 |
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Racial violence,
3-2 |
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Raggedy Ann,
4-4,
7-4;
museum,
5-4 |
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Railroads: depot,
2-10;
photo,
6-3;
in museum,
6-3;
significant dates,
6-3;
2-2,
2-5,
2-8,
4-3 |
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Railroads in Harrison County book review,
6-3 |
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Rankin family,
3-7 |
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Rankin House,
4-2 |
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Redmon Distilling Company,
1-4 |
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Rees log house,
3-9 |
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Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society, collecting, 1-5 |
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River landmarks, 2-8 |
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Rope walk,
2-4,
3-4,
5-2 |
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Ruddell's and Martin's
Stations Associaton,
2-6 |
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Ruddell’s Station,
2-6,
3-9 |
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Russell Barlow, photo,
7-9 |
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Russell, John, Cutlery
Co., 7-9 |
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Rutland, Kentucky, 2-1,
3-5,
4-12 |
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Salem Church Cemetery,
5-12 |
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School memorabilia,
Harrison museum, 1-4 |
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Schools, 1-9,
6-6,
6-10 |
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Scott, Walter E., 1-3 |
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Scrap iron drive, 1942,
7-11 |
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Settlement period map,
7-5 |
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Shannon, Thomas, 1852 execution,
6-9 |
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Shanties, railroad,
2-5 |
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Sheely, David, hanging,
1-2 |
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Sheely, Nancy,
2-3 |
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Sheely’s ghost,
2-5 |
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Shingleton, Charles,
4-5 |
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Slade, George D.,
6-3;
biography,
6-7 |
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Slade, Harold, photo, 7-4 |
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Slaughter, Tom,
6-1 |
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Slave revolt,
6-2 |
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Sleds and skates article, 7-12 |
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Smiser, H. Tod, Dr., and flue, 7-6 |
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Smith House,
4-2 |
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Smith, Aunt Liz,
4-2 |
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Sparks, Joy Vance, photo, 7-8 |
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Sparks, Widow, mystery article, 7-8 |
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Spohn, John, house photo,
6-1 |
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St. James A.M. E. Church history,
6-2 |
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Standpipe,
4-4 |
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Steam engines,
5-6 |
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Stewart, William H.,
6-8 |
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Stone, Edith, photo, 7-6 |
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Stuart, William, visited by Boone, 7-5 |
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Sultan, 7-1 |
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Superstitions, New
Year, 2-1 |
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Swinford, Charles, Dr., 7-1 |
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Swinford, Mac,
4-7;
civil rights cases,
5-10 |
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Sylvandell post office,
3-10 |
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Talking
machine,
3-7 |
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Tanneries,
2-4 |
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Tobacco displays,
museum,
2-6 |
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Tobaccometer,
3-8 |
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Todd, George Rogers
Clark, Dr., 7-4 |
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Todd, Mattie D.,
2-4; 7-4 |
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Todd, Mattie, profile,
3-10 |
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Trough, watering,
5-5 |
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Turkey sales,
3-11 |
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U |
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Underground railroad,
6-2 |
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V |
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Valentine cards,
museum, 2-2 |
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Van Hook whiskey
bottle,
5-1 |
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VanDerveer, Col.,
photo,
5-9 |
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Vault, Battle Grove,
2-11 |
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Victorian winters (Cromwell), 6-12 |
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WWI Christmas letter,
6-12 |
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WWI, museum exhibits,
7-6 |
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Wall school house, 1-9 |
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Webb, J. T.,
6-8 |
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Wells, Virgie Florence,
6-9 |
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Wherritt, Perry, photo,
5-9;
profile,
3-8 |
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Whitaker, B. B., 1-4 |
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Whitledge, Thomas,
journals 1809-1820 (query),
3-4 |
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Wilkes, George,
6-7 |
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Williams, Elnora, 7-3 |
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Williams, Frank Gore,
photo, 7-10 |
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Wills, R.H., 7-1 |
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Wilson & Handy, 7-1 |
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Wilson, George H.,
5-12 |
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Wilson, W. H.,
6-7,
7-1 |
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Winter of 1917,
2-3 |
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Withers, James S.,
4-11 |
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Withers, Stanley,
4-11 |
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WPA projects,
6-10 |
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Y |
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Young, B. P.,
photographer,
5-1 |
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Z |
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is for
'Z- U-Later'
until |
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Next month's issue
of
~
Harrison
Heritage
News
~
is
on its way . . .
Harrison County
Historical Society |