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Where the Bank Jesse robbed was 2005-10-21 - Burkesville ST,, Columbia, KY - Photo Ed Waggener. According to Columbia's foremost authority on the Jesse James robber of the Bank of Columbia, Charles Grimsley, the little frame building building which then housed bank would have had its front door, on Burkesville ST, approximately where the back door, to the left of the fireplug is now. The eyewitness in the robbery might have been in the hotel located on the property with the Farm Bureau sign, on the south side of Burkesville ST in this photo. This hotel was called "The Hancock Hotel" in the mid-Twentieth Century. The hotel located where the present Adair County Courthouse is located may not have had a vantage point from which the little bank Jesse James' gang robbed could have been seen. Of course the buildings were mostly different then. Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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