Bullitt Memories

David Strange, our museum director, and Charlie Hartley, our webmaster, have been writing "Bullitt County Memories" articles for the Louisville Courier-Journal that appear in their Neighborhoods Section for Bullitt County on Wednesdays.

The articles are archived here with additional information for your reading enjoyment. David's articles are listed first, followed by those written by Charlie. The most recent ones are listed first.

Articles by David Strange
Survey Markers [8 May 13]
George Lawson Rogers [24 Apr 13]
The Poor Farm [10 Apr 13]
Easter Sunday Memories [27 Mar 13]
On the River [13 Mar 13]
Bullitt County Woman's Club [27 Feb 13]
A Footrace to Louisville [13 Feb 13]
Camp Crescendo [6 Feb 13]
The Lynching of Mary Thompson [23 Jan 13]
Flat Lick Road [9 Jan 13]
Christmas Memories [19 Dec 12]
Iron Stoves and Adoptive Children [5 Dec 12]
Herding Turkeys [21 Nov 12]
Art Stamper and His Music [31 Oct 12]
Airplanes and Airfields [17 Oct 12]
A Long Line of Friendly [19 Sep 12]
A Moving Story about a Depot [5 Sep 12]
Drag Racing at Cedar Creek [22 Aug 12]
Slavery Made Personal [8 Aug 12]
Civil War in Bullitt County [25 Jul 12]
"Independence Day, The Fourth of July" [4 Jul 12]
Old Shepherdsville Road [27 Jun 12]
The Art and Struggles of Salt Making [14 Jun 12]
Metal Skates and Gravel Driveways [30 May 12]
The Old Stone Jail [16 May 12]
The Last Great Tree of Shepherdsville [2 May 12]
The Courthouse Bell Mystery [18 Apr 12]
Stop Those Devil Wagons! [4 Apr 12]
Murder or Not? The Hagan-Barbour Feud [1 Feb 12]
Dueling and Its Connection to Bullitt Co. [25 Jan 12]
Brass plate Marks '37 High-water Mark [18 Jan 12]
Glass House Restaurant [10 Jan 12]
2012: A Year of Anniversaries [3 Jan 12]
Sugar Valley Has a Deep History [26 Dec 11]
Train Wreck of 1888 [20 Dec 11]
Tree Traditions Fades but Story Remains [13 Dec 11]

Articles by Charlie Hartley
Froman's Ferry at Pitt's Point [15 May 13]
Alma Wallace Lesch, A Remarkable Artist [1 May 13]
The Corner Drug Store [17 Apr 13]
Frank Hatfield, School Financial Reform Pioneer [3 Apr 13]
Fires in the 1920s [20 Mar 13]
Sarah O'Brien - A Life Well Lived [6 Mar 13]
Dingley Dell [20 Feb 13]
The Carrolls of Bullitt County [30 Jan 13]
J. D. "Jiggs" Buckman [16 Jan 13]
"The Meadows," Part 2 [2 Jan 13]
"The Meadows," Part 1 [26 Dec 12]
Looking Back 100 Years to 1912 [12 Dec 12]
The Barton-Fox Family at Huber's Station [28 Nov 12]
Ridgway Memorial Library [14 Nov 12]
Four Long-Term County Clerks [7 Nov 12]
Shepherdsville First Baptist Celebrates 175 Years [24 Oct 12]
John Marshall Harlan's Civil War Service at Lebanon Jct [10 Oct 12]
The Cruises and Harness Racing [26 Sep 12]
John Ratliff's Civil War Tale [12 Sep 12]
Charles Lehr, Civil War Telegraph Operator [29 Aug 12]
Charley Kurtsinger, the Jockey [15 Aug 12]
Smallpox in 1899 Lebanon Junction [1 Aug 12]
Remembering Tom Pack and Robert McDowell [18 Jul 12]
Raymond Nute's Amazing Peach Orchard and Turkey Farm [11 Jul 12]
A Train to Mt. Washington [20 Jun 12]
Bullitt County's First Jaycees [6 Jun 12]
Professor Jack Sanders [23 May 12]
Bob Zimmerman, a Renaissance Man [9 May 12]
World War I Memorial Plaque [25 Apr 12]
Huber's Station [11 Apr 12]
How Bell's Mill Road Got Its Name [28 Mar 12]
Getting Rowed up Salt River [21 Mar 12]
Father Bertello & St. Aloysius Church [14 Mar 12]
Paroquet Springs Remembered [7 Mar 12]
How Floyds Fork Got Its Name [29 Feb 12]
Iron Manufacturing [22 Feb 12]
Battle of the Kettles [15 Feb 12]
Worst Train Wreck in Ky. History [8 Feb 12]

The Bullitt County History Museum, a service of the Bullitt County Genealogical Society, is located in the county courthouse at 300 South Buckman Street (Highway 61) in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. The museum, along with its research room, is open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday. Admission is free. The museum, as part of the Bullitt County Genealogical Society, is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization and is classified as a 509(a)2 public charity. Contributions and bequests are deductible under section 2055, 2106, or 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code. Page last modified: 15 May 2013 . Page URL: bullittcountyhistory.org/dstrangecj.html