Browsed by
Category: Communities

COMMUNITIES: PAST & PRESENT

COMMUNITIES: PAST & PRESENT

AMITY : Amity is located on Highway 53, about 7.5 miles south of Woodbury. It was named in 1939 when the Kruthaup family founded a Presbyterian church there. Presbyterian services were discontinued in 1963. Today, the building is used by a Baptist congregation. The place has a cemetery and a store. A Church of Christ is located about a half mile away. AUBURNTOWN: Auburntown is a village of about 300 people located in the extreme northwestern section of the county,…

Read More Read More

Ghost Towns

Ghost Towns

  Sadly, all but a few of the towns below are but a memory. There may be another two in which the names are still used for reference points in traveling, but none truly exist; only a church or perhaps an old barn bearing a store’s name on the side. With most of these past towns, the only clue you might have as to their prior location is in the name of a church or more likely a cemetery. There…

Read More Read More

Places / Localities

Places / Localities

Populated Places Cities and Towns: Auburntown Bluewing Bradyville Brysonville Burgen Burt Center Hill Culpepper Curlee Gassaway Half Acre Hardscrabble Hollow Springs Iconium Ivy Bluff Leoni Mount Ararat Pleasant Ridge Pleasant View Porterfield Readyville Sheybogan Stringtown Wildwood Mill Woodbury