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    Interview with Lon Carter Barton on Graves County Place Names – Part 2

    November 28, 2023

    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 second of six audio cassettes recorded that day. Barton: … There’s a Methodist church, one of the older Methodist churches in the county, which is in Water Valley, and there’s a Pentecostal church on the highway that’s been there for a…

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    Irish & Scots-Irish Genealogy Workshop at the Graves County Public Library

    March 3, 2023

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