Sad Announcement

Sad Announcement

Everyone,

Brenda Carolyn Devine Sallee passed away on May 23rd 2010 at about 6:00 p.m.
Please lift Brenda's Daughter,Bobbi Rightmyer, in your prayers during this difficult time. Bobbi is a board member of the JHT and is instrumental in pushing the JHT into the future with her managing and creating its blog and facebook accounts.

Visitation will be after 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Alexander & Royalty Funeral Home.

Just wanted to let everyone know.

Parkview Guest House Awarded JHT Plaque

The James Harrod Trust, on Monday, the 17th of May, awarded Jack & Kathy Mattingly owners of the Parkview Guest on College Street the James Harrod Trust Plaque for outstanding preservation work. Jack and Kathy have done a wonderful job preserving and utilizing a local historic structure. The Parkview Guest House originally started out being the A.D. Price Memorial Hospital which dated from 1915 - 1949. The Parkview Guest House was established in the early 1950's. Thank you for all the hard work and dedication Jack & Kathy.

Root Cellars

These photos were originally published in the March 2010 edition of "Mercer's Magazine" in an article by Lois Mateus.

The top photo is the only known remaining functional cellar in Harrodsburg, standing in Anna Armstrong's backyard on Lexington Street. Restored in 2004, the cellar has a depression in the floor which would have been filled with water to keep containers of liquid cold


The photo above is a new root cellar built by Tim Peters on Tallgrass Farm in Mercer County.


This deep pit, on the Wilson family farm on Central Pike, is an ice pit used by early settlers to hold ice and snow. Winter's aged ice was a precious commodity for pioneers and was used to heal and starve fevers and save lives as well as to preserve food and cool drinks.

Sad Announcement

Everyone,

Birdeen White passed away this morning at 2:30 a.m. at Haggin Memorial Hospital.
Please lift Birdeen's son, Terry, in your prayers during this difficult time. Terry White is a founding member of the JHT and Birdeen was a beloved fixture at many JHT events.

Visitation for Birdeen will be from 5-8 p.m. Monday (...5/10) at Ransdell's Funeral Chapel.

Funeral will be held on Tuesday (5/11) at 11:00 a.m. at Ransdell's Funeral Chapel.

Just wanted to let you know.

Just a Hint: Pogue House

Pogue House:

I had the privilege to have a brief tour of this house last week. The Pogue House which is featured on the tour is a massive work in progress. To the scholar and historian this unassuming house literally vibrates with history. To think that Ann Pogue climbed these stairs and swept these floors makes me ponder the settling of this state.

Mr. Richard Parson's was at first wary about having people to see this structure. He was worried that people would judge it harshly due to its condition. The house retains many details of its earliest fabric. Through its history its had a succession of poorly built and maintained additions. Mr. Parson's plans on removing these in the near future keeping only the 19th century elements. I told him that the people coming on this tour would expect to see the "bones" of this dwelling and would be excited over seeing it. I've included photos of the original garret stairwell, one of the earliest mantels and built-ins and a great shot of the logs supporting the flooring. Though at this stage this house is not a showcase it holds a history that until this date has never been uncovered. Rykon will serve as a wonderland of luxury for those seeking such interests.

This is only a hint of what this house holds.