The Boyd Project: January 2009

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Cynthiana Democrat Commentary

A really nice commentary from Cynthiana Democrat reporter Kate Darnell talking about the fire at Katie Bell's home in Boyd.

Cynthiana Democrat Boyd Fire Story

An article from the Cynthiana Democrat detailing the arson fire in Boyd, Kentucky destroying Katie Bell's tobacco barn and home.

Otis Milner and his crew tearing the second story of the Katie Bell home down following the arson fire at her farm in Boyd, KY.

Boyd, Kentucky

Boyd Station, an early Kentucky settlement on the South Fork of the Licking River, 11 ½ miles NNW of the current day city of Cynthiana, the county seat of Harrison County.

On December 8, 1854, on the site of a watermill built by Whitehead Coleman in 1810, Thomas Boyd established a trading post which he named Boyd’s Station in honor of Andrew Boyd, Sr., an early Kentucky settler. Within a short time it became a coal and water supply station on the Covington and Lexington railroad and the village grew up around the station. In 1880, the outpost became simply Boyd, which name it bore until it closed.

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The Boyd Project

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Cynthiana Democrat Commentary

Cynthiana Democrat Boyd Fire Story

Boyd, Kentucky

Harrison County, Kentucky

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