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Danville City Commission hears parks projects updates
The Danville City Commission heard an update at their meeting on May 9 about four city park project plans: the old Jennie Rogers school on ...
Brenda Edwards, Author at The Advocate-Messenger
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Looking Back: Judge John Kincaid
(Editor’s note: Information for this article came from a Boyle County history about the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Blue Licks, published in the ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, May 22, 2020 9:31 am
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Looking Back: James Payne Mitchell
(The gravestone photo and research for this article was compiled by local genealogist Carolyn Crabtree.) James Payne Mitchell was and was a lawyer one of ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, May 15, 2020 10:30 am
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Looking Back: Civil War letter
Charles H. Talbot of Danville wrote a letter Sept. 20, 1862, from Covington to his Edwards cousins in Philadelphia, just after having a recent visit ...
by Brenda Edwards, Saturday, May 9, 2020 12:35 pm
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Danville’s Joshua West served proudly
(Editor’s note: Information in this article came from The Advocate archives and Find-A-Grave site.) Danville native Joshua West Jacobs spent 40 years of his ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, May 1, 2020 11:22 am
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Looking Back: Welsh immigrants settle in Virginia and head for Kentucky
(Editor’s note: Local genealogist Carolyn Crabtree, who has done extensive genealogist and historical research in Boyle and surrounding counties, did the research and furnished photos ...
by Brenda Edwards, Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:18 pm
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Looking Back: Train wrecks were common in the early 1900s
(Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series about train wrecks in Danville and – Messenger archives.) Several train wrecks on ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, April 17, 2020 9:49 am
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Mrs. Stratton was a winning crappie fisherman
(Editor’s note: Information for this article was gathered from the Advocate-Messenger archives. Her granddaughter Sharon Stratton furnished the photograph.) A Boyle County woman was ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, April 3, 2020 4:57 pm
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Looking Back: Three Dunn brothers went to war for their country
Editor’s note: Information for this article came from articles in The Advocate-Messenger archives. Three Dunn brothers from Danville went to war for their country ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, March 27, 2020 5:56 pm
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Looking Back: Westmoreland
Editor’s note: Research for this article was taken from The Advocate-Messenger Archives. Many of Kentucky’s earliest settlers came from the celebrated Shenandoah Valley ...
