Carter County Historical Society

05/28/2026

Meeting tonight at 6 pm at the Grayson branch of the Carter County Public Library!

04/22/2026

Our meeting for the month of April will take place tomorrow at the Grayson branch of the Carter County Public Library at 6 pm!

Please come out and join us! We will sharing some details about the upcoming historic walking trail in Grayson along with several upcoming events.

Photo: Stovall Memorial Hospital, 1950s

03/26/2026

Our March meeting is tonight at 6 pm at the Grayson branch of the Carter County Public Library! We hope you will join us.

03/16/2026

The KCU History Department is putting this event on next week! Jim has spoken for us before and we are glad to see him back talking about local history.

We hope you'll join us for our public lecture next week on a fascinating and locally relevant topic!

02/26/2026

Our monthly meeting is scheduled for 6 pm tomorrow at the Grayson branch of the Carter County Public Library.

We will be discussing some important business as well as examining a set of several dozen nineteenth-century documents that were recently donated to us. We will also be discussing a recent digitization project undertaken by two seniors in the history department at Kentucky Christian University, preserving ledgers for Cooksey's Dry Goods dating from around 1900 (pictured).

Please join us!

02/19/2026

A gentlemen contacted us looking for this cemetery in the Olive Hill area and we're trying to help him out. Does anyone know the exact location of the cemetery he's looking for?

01/15/2026

The first photo shows Grayson's Methodist Episcopal church, built around 1915 on the corner of Second and Hord. The second photo shows the remains of that church after a devastating fire completely destroyed that structure in early 1928.

The church was rebuilt on the same site by 1931 and that building stands today as Bagby Memorial United Methodist Church. The last photo gives a historic view of the current church.

12/04/2025

Our last meeting of 2025 is taking place tonight at the Olive Hill Center for Arts and Heritage at 6:30 pm.

Here's to more Carter County history in the New Year!

10/25/2025

The Carter County Historical Society would like to pay tribute to the life of Dr. Roland Burns, who passed a few weeks ago. Dr. Burns, or just Doc, was one of the greatest advocates for the preservation of the history of this region. He went to great personal expense not only to preserve a number of historic log cabins, but for years hosted an annual event for schoolchildren and the public to learn about our history and see these buildings for themselves.

From his obituary: "Wolfpen Woods Pioneer Village was his greatest and most loved accomplishment. The village, made up of multiple hewn log houses, was the setting for teaching over 42,000 school children from 3 states the pioneer history and folkways during its 17 years in operation."

We remember the life of Dr. Burns and offer our sincere condolences to his loved ones.

View Dr. Roland L Burns's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

10/23/2025

We will be meeting tonight at 6:30 pm as usual at the Olive Hill Center for Arts and Heritage.

Hope to see you there!

09/25/2025

Due to prior commitments for some of our leadership, our September meeting, normally taking place today, is cancelled.

We will meet at our usual date and time next month, October 23rd at 6:30 pm at our offices at the Olive Hill Center for Arts and Heritage.