Kentucky Entertainment Television (KET) visited Beattyville in 2018 and filmed a Veterans Day tribute for their program. The video was published on November 8th and was shown on KET stations. Bob Smith, president of the Three Forks Historical Center talks about the Veterans wing in the museum and the Veterans Memorial Wall located in Beattyville, KY. Follow this link to War Memorial names located on the monuments for those killed in active duty, provided by Kentucky Genealogy Trails.
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Beattyville, KY is the birthplace of the Kentucky River and the Three Forks Region was booming in the logging industry from 1890-1930s. Here is a video about an important tool that loggers used as they rafted logs from Beattyville toward Frankfort and on to the Ohio River. Learn more about the waterways and river trails that Lee County has to offer. Follow this link to view the pool 14 river map and where the boat ramps are located. Contact the local outfitter to reserve your kayak/canoe trip this summer. Geneva Duncil, board member of the Three Forks Historical Center, showcases a artifact in the museum that is special to her: $100 in burnt money which was recovered in downtown Beattyville after the 1977 runaway gas truck explosion. Here area few links to photos, articles, and the transportation documents of the accident. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/pages/HAR7804.aspx http://www.kyphotoarchive.com/2017/09/29/fiery-beattyville-tanker-truck-crash-1977/ The Lee County Senior Citizens eat lunch every day at their building across the road from the museum on HWY 11 in Beattyville at 11:30am. This is a county wide lunch free for all resident senior citizens of Lee County funded through the Kentucky River Area Development District. On Fridays every week the center does potluck, so we invited them to come to the museum for a change in the regular schedule. Normally pot luck days do not bring too big of a crowd, but they were all excited to come to the museum. Around 25 people, including the Mayor of Beattyville, Scott Jackson and the Lee County Judge Executive Chuck Caudill, attending the meal. Many were looking at the artifacts and telling stories as the object would trigger certain memories. The food selection was fantastic as someone had donated a ham the ladies who work for the Lee County Senior Citizen Center cooked it early this morning. There was also fried chicken, coal slaw, pimento cheese sandwiches, potato salad, chips and dip. The desserts were fantastic also as there was grape salad, cinnamon apple bunt cake, angel food cake, chocolate cake, brownies and more! After a warm welcoming word from Robert Smith of the Museum and from the tourism Director Dedra Brandenburg, the blessing was given and everyone dived in. Everyone agreed that this was something they wanted to do more often so in the future we are hoping for pot luck day at the museum at least once a month. Several individuals were interested in also helping volunteer hours at the Tourism Center Caboose to assist the tourism director on projects. Others were also interested in being interviewed for the Lee County Oral History/Storytelling projects. Follow the Lee County Senior Citizens on Facebook!
President of the museum, Bob Smith, talks about why the Three Forks Historical Center matters to our community. This video is a segment of the "This Place Matters" raising awareness campaign video published in 2018 by the Downtown Beattyville Alliance and the Beattyville/Lee County Tourism Commission. Click here to view the entire "This Place Matters" video. |
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Board Members: Linda Smith Josh Smith Jessica Treadway JD Sipple Kenneth Isaacs Suzy Booth Joshua Hagan Ray Shuler Geneva Duncil Frank Kincaid Sherry Lanham Everett Lee Marshall Dedra Brandenburg Board Members in loving memory: Bob Smith 10/30/22 Rhonda Estes 9/20/21 Edna G. Crabtree 2/15/21 |