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Pictures from Columbia's Past... Scroll down to see the house that once belonged to Judge James Garnett, an influential Adair Countian who lost a hand fighting the Jessie James gang in a robbery. The house was located within a few hundred yards of the town square in Columbia at the turn of the last century, but you probably wouldn't recognize the location now. note--the picture at right is of the town square, and is the icon for the Local History topic, not the picture you'll see by clicking the link above. Judge Garnett's house was just off Campbellsville Street in Columbia, on the hill that now overlooks Burton Ace Hardware and Jr. Food Mart, and appears to have occupied much of the real estate between Campbellsville Street and Lindsey Wilson Street, now home to numerous residences and businesses. Judge Garnett was one of Adair County's most influential citizens. He was a member of the Kentucky General Assembly, an organizer of the Bank of Columbia, Circuit Court Judge for Adair, Allen, Cumberland, Barren, Clinton, green, Hart and Monroe Counties; a Judge of the Court of Appeals, and a promoter of good roads. In James Garnett's account of Judge Garnett's life, he tells of a moment in 1872 when Judge Garnett was in the Bank of Columbia "talking with W.H. Hudson, Major T.C. Winfrey, James T. Page, and R.A.C. Martin (when) the James gang robbed the bank. One of the three gangsters who entered the building leveled a pistol on him but before it fired he knocked the pistol from the bandit's hand, receiving what he thought a slight wound on the back of his right hand." The wound worsened, and in 1886 his hand was removed. Undeterred, Garnett "soon learned to write with his left hand, and engaged actively in the practice of law until within a few years of his death." This story was posted on 2002-08-28 00:00:00
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