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Very Old Person remembers big shift in Greene Co. population

Charles Marshburn writes:
I realize you are probably the only person old enough to remember why the population of Greene County fell 36% and the population of Adair County rose 17 % in the census of 1850. Hope it wasn't due to an election! Anyone with any information? - Charles Marshburn
Mr. Marshburn, I don't know. This is a question which has weighed on the minds of so many, so long, but you've just asked a question way beyond our collective educational level, though occurrences in the year 1948 may have something to do with the Greene County exodus. For Adair County, since this was before the influx of Canadian Tour Busses, it must have had to do with Malthusian reasons. But if there is a historian in the house, maybe we'll both learn the answer. - EW. For possibility's please ponder Larry Smith's ancient map we've linked by clicking on headline.




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Larry Smith: Early map of Adair & surrounding counties



2015-04-21 - Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith, FM 99.9 The Big Dawg, FM 92.7 the WAVE.
"I'll bet none of y'all remember when you crossed the Adair County line to Pulaski or Barren Counties, or when what is now Campbellsville, KY was in "Greene" county. "I'll tell you how and when the "e" got lost from Greene County, but that's another story.) There are many other oddities of this old map none of y'all remember when - it was on ColumbiaMagazine.com once, how Adair County ceded some good western bear territory in 1865 because the Republicans wanted to get rid of the good Democrats who lived there. And that may be why, today, the Free State of Metcalfe is staunchly Democratic, and Adair County is Republican. Heaven only knows why they ceded the eastern territory to Russell County, but they did, and Adair County lost a good riverport on the Cumberland River. Comments are welcome, including an accurate dating of this map." - LARRY SMITH, Operations Manager, Shoreline Communications.

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