Long before standardized governmental or postal assigned road, street, route names and numbers, people living in unincorporated communities needed a way to designate a particular place in their community. The utility of very specific place names is obvious. So, each
State and County Boundaries Are Not Constant
Let’s say we were born in Needmore Branch Hollow in the community of Rush (currently Needmore Road in Boyd County, KY) in 1775 and lived a long life there until we died in 1861 (86 years). The list below cites
Why a Website Devoted to the Williams Creek Basin?
I have always had a reasonable interest in history and geography especially with regard to the region I grew up in. This interest was not something that compelled me to spend a lot of time reading materials already available on