On August 5, 1977, Robert Rennick interviewed historian Lon Carter Barton at his home in Mayfield for over four hours discussing the history of community names in Graves County and the Jackson Purchase. Rennick was touring Kentucky researching the place names of villages, towns, and cities throughout the Commonwealth for a forthcoming publication. Below is the transcription of the third of six audio cassettes recorded that day. Barton: … [Feliciana continued] but they just didn’t name very many villages and communities for slaves, whether they killed, fighting each other, or whether they weren’t. I wouldn’t rule it out entirely, but…
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