The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1921-11-23


and Ok teams were employed IN
hauling logs and lumber, many
portable saw mills were running.
Framed dwellings gradually replace
ed log houses all over the south
end Of the county. Barns and shell
ter for live stock were numerous.
In or about 1s4s Joshua Benton,
John Hunsaker, Robert Shared,
James Reid, william Taylor and J.
w. d. Coleman built each two
story. dwelling in the Hopewell
neig hborhood. Many Improvements
were made on almost every farm
south Of Hartford. There were
three brick dwellings built, one.
believe. by Richard Taylor on the
old Hartford and Morgantown road,
and one in what was known as the
Stevens neighborhood, north OF
Cromwell, and one by Tobias Taylor
near Rochester. There were frame
churches at Goshen, Green River,
Philadelphia, Beaver Dam, Pond
Run. Hopewell and Bethel.
In my boyhood days, have seen
my father strike fire with flint and
steel, and have on several 'occa-
sions gone mile early Of morn
ing for a live coal to kindle fire
to get breakfast with, but that was
about 70 years ago. In 1858 R. G..
Reid and Warner Smith ran a store
boat on Green River, and I remem-
her we'll that they kept a stock CT
friction matches. The matches
came in wooden boxes containing
about 100 matches, and retailei a:
csc each.
There were public roads from
Hartford to Crom we'll Rochester,
Paradise, Ceralvo, Hogs Falls Dix
on Ferry, Williams Ferry. Vans
Rifle, Point Pleasant and others
from Ceralvo to Cromwell, from
Paradise to Pincheco. from Crom-
well to Leitchfield, and from Crom-
wei, to wilson's and Borah Ferry.
All important streams were bridged.
There were seven or eight voting
precincts in the southern end Of
Ohio county, Baizetown. Cromwell,
Beaver Dam, Cool Springs, Browns
Tan Yard, Rockport. Centertown,
Ceralvo and Point Pleasant.
In 1866 there were three lines
surveyed for Railroads through
Ohio county. One survry crossed
Green River at Paradise. one at
Rockport (then known as Benton s
Ferry and one at Ceralvo. The
road was known as the Elizabeth
town and Paducah line. The piers
for the bridge were quarried in
Rockport and a locomotive was
brought to Rockport on a barge,
unloaded and placed on the track in
1869 or 1870, mail, freight and
passenger train were running on
regular timetables in 1871.
The farmers OF southern Ohio
County were well posted in agricul-
ture. Farming papers were found
on almost all center tables. The
Louisville Farm and Home predomi-
mated. Religious literature was
literally distributed among all
church members, the Western Re-
corder and the Christian Advocate
in the lead. Political journals were
plentiful. The Courier-Journal,
Cincinnati Times and Commercial,
the New York Times and other pa
pers were common with us. AS to
social features, there was the old
standby, Godey's Lady Book, and
Peterson's Magazine. The Holy BIZ
BILE was in every home, and our
girls modestly followed the fashions,
perhaps with cheaper material and
1889 u Oub tAC tultlu6 anu
fitting was very close to the fash
ions of the day, especially in re-
gard to the exaggerated hoop skirts
of that period. When at church
basket dinner, Sunday school picnic
or at social dance our girls look
ed like flower garden and their
beauty and behavior would compare
favorably with any bevy of girls in
the state or elsewhere.
Schools usually were taught in
three months terms. Spelling,
reading, arithmetic and writing
were all the branches taught in this
neighborhood up to about 1860. At
that time Michael Nourse from the
east came to the neighborhood and
started private school, teaching
the higher grades. Many OF this
took advantage of the
school m nranare thamselyes for