The County Histories of Kentucky consist of photocopies of historical surveys of Kentucky counties written by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1939.The collection includes typescripts, manuscripts, rare publications and oral histories on county and community histories written by regional and local authors. The surveys contain brief county histories, field reports, notes, preliminary and corrected drafts of essays, oral testimony, folklore and other miscellaneous materials. Added to the collection are county histories collected by researchers Stuart Sprague and Robert Rennick, special edition newspapers and other publications on county and community histories.

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Monroe County - 50th Anniversary Edition, Tompkinsville News

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Monroe County- General History, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Montgomery County - Folklore, Works Progress Administration

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Montgomery County - General History, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Montgomery County - Historical Sketches, Richard Reid

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Montgomery County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Morehead Advance - Commercial Club's Edition, Morehead Advance

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Morgan County, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Morgan County - A History of Cannel City & Caney, Kentucky through Newspapers, 1885-1922 (Draft), Ron Gevedon

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Morgan County - A Picture Album #4, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - A Picture Album Book 2, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - Cannel City Oral History #1, W. Lynn Nickell and Chalmer Benton

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Morgan County - Cannel City Oral History #2, W. Lynn Nickell and Chalmer Benton

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Morgan County - Centennial Anniversary Address, John T. Hazalrigg

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Morgan County - Folklore, Works Progress Administration and Federal Writers' Project

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Morgan County - How Sweet It Was, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - Morgan County Courthouse, 1907-2007, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - Paul Gilley: The Ghost Writer in the Sky, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - Photographs of 2012 West Liberty Tornado, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - Post Offices & Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

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Morgan County - Riding the Blue Goose with Stops at Wrigley and Lenox, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - Selections from Morgan County History, Helen Price Stacy and William Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - Sesquicentennial Edition, Licking Valley Courier

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Morgan County - The Forgotten War Remembered in Morgan County, Kentucky, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - The Last Train to Jackson, W. Lynn Nickell

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Morgan County - W. Lynn Nickell Collection Inventory & Finding Aid, Dieter C. Ullrich

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Muhlenberg County - General History, Works Progress Administration and Federal Writers' Project

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Muhlenberg County - Place Names, Marjorie Finley

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Nelson County - Post Offices & Place Names, Robert M. Rennick and Works Progress Administration

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Nicholas County - Post Offices & Place Names, Robert M. Rennick and Works Progress Administration

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Ohio County - Centennial Edition, Ohio County News

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Ohio County - Place Names, William Gladstone Steel and Robert M. Rennick

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Oldham County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick and Works Progress Administration

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Owen County Atlas, DJ Lake & Co.

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Owen County - General History, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Owen County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Owen County - Sesquicentennial Edition, Owen County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee

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Owsley County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Pendleton County - Place Names, E. S. Barton and Mary Louise Barton

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Pendleton County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Perry County - Bobby Davis Park, Stuart S. Sprague

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Perry County - General History, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Perry County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Pike County, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Pike County - Folklore, Various authors

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Pike County - Leonard Roberts Place Names Survey, Leonard Roberts and Robert M. Rennick

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Pike County - Pictures of Progressive Pike County, Kentucky [1937], Pike County News (Pikeville, Ky.)

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Pike County - Place Names, Robert M. Rennick

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Pike County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Powell County, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Powell County - Clay City Homecoming, Clay City Times

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Powell County - Clay City Homecoming 1970, Clay City Times

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Powell County - General History, Works Progress Administration

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Powell County - Nature's Wonderland, Red River Recreational Guide

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Powell County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Pulaski County, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Pulaski County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Pulaski County - Post Offices & Place Names, Works Progress Administration and Robert M. Rennick

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Rebel Outrage in Kentucky, Frankfort Daily Commonwealth

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Robertson County - General History, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Robertson County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Rockcastle County - Folklore, Works Progress Administration

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Rockcastle County - General History, Works Progress Administration and Robert M. Rennick

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Rockcastle County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Rowan County - 1930s, Stuart S. Sprague

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Rowan County - Agriculture, Paul Mills

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Rowan County - Belva Bramham Interview, Belva Bramham and Stuart S. Sprague

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Rowan County - Cemetery Index, Rowan County Historical Society

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Rowan County - Cemetery Photographs, Rowan County Historical Society

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Rowan County - Centennial, Committees for Morehead-Rowan County Centennial

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Rowan County - Courthouse, Stuart S. Sprague

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Rowan County - Courthouse Burned, Louisville Journal

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Rowan County - Cut off at Triplett's Bridge, Louisville Daily Democrat

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Rowan County - Defeat of Everett's Guerrillas, Rebellion Record

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Rowan County - Dorsie Keaton Interview, Dorsie Keaton and Stuart S. Sprague

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Rowan County - Everett's Raid, Maysville Weekly Bulletin

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Rowan County - Everett's Raid into Eastern Kentucky, Official Records of the War of the Rebellion

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Rowan County - Fight at Triplett Bridge, Louisville Daily Journal

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Rowan County - Folklore, Barbara McKenzie, Linda Lowe, Glenda Martin, A. Y. Manning, Thomas Daugherty, and Winona Foster

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Rowan County - Folktales & Anedotes, Nancy Morris

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Rowan County - Frank Brown Interview, Frank Hamilton Brown and Stuart S. Sprague

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Rowan County - General History, Grace Crosthwaite

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Rowan County - General History, Works Progress Administration and Historical Records Survey

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Rowan County - Government, George T. Young

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Rowan County - Health Department, Rowan County Health Department

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Rowan County - Historical and Progress Edition of the Morehead Independent, Morehead Independent

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Rowan County - History of Rowan County Courthouse, Steven Middleton

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Rowan County - Kentucky in the World War, 1917-1919, Kentucky Council of Defense., T. B. Tippett, and Fred P. Caldwell

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Rowan County - Methodist Church, Reuel Buchanan and Morehead United Methodist Chruch

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Rowan County - Morehead, Elva Curley Barker

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Rowan County - Morehead Mayors, Rowan County Public Library

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Rowan County - Morehead & Morehead State, No author

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Rowan County News - Diamond Jubilee Edition, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

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Rowan County - Organization of County, Edward Sargent

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Rowan County - Politics, Jack Litton

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Rowan County - Post Offices, Robert M. Rennick

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Rowan County - Prisoner taken at Triplett's Bridge, Louisville Daily Democrat

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Rowan County - Rowan County News Name Index, 1936-1937, Rowan County News

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Rowan County - Rowan County News Subject Index, 1935-1959, Rowan County News

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Rowan County - The Court House of Rowan County, Cincinnati Daily Commercial