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Most recent PHOTOS matching your search for 'Gradyville Flood'...- Venie Moss Coffey at Adair History Center (Photo ID: 98805)
At the Adair Genealogy and History Center Phillip Coffey's mother, Mrs. Venie Moss Coffey, observes the quilt made by Miss Venie Moss who drowned ... (click photo title to read more)
- An Avalanche of Water: June 12, 1907 Adair Co. News (Photo ID: 95352)
One hundred fifteen years ago, 7 June 1907, was a day that shall never be forgotten in this county. An isolated weather-event that became national... (click photo title to read more)
- Phillip Coffey with family display at AC Genealogy, History Center (Photo ID: 94964)
With the passing of Miss Venie Moss, who drowned in the Gradyville Flood, 7 June 1907, her hand-made quilt passed to her mother, Mrs. Nancy Matney... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood: The Search Party (Photo ID: 88087)
An original photo of the search party the day after the Gradyville Flood.... (click photo title to read more)
- Shades of Splendid Spring Green (Photo ID: 78533)
It's not lake effect green. Tupman's Pond, nearby, created by the Cloudburst that caused the Gradyville Flood in 1907, is nearly gone now. Maybe... (click photo title to read more)
- Three markers to victims of the Gradyville Flood (07 Jun 1997) (Photo ID: 73079)
Three markers for victims of the Gradyville Flood of June 7, 1907. They are haunting reminders, so many with the same dates, in the cemeteries. ... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood Edition 1997 Print & Online (Photo ID: 73078)
Adair County Historian Mike Watson, whom we hope will soon announce a hardcover history of the Gradyville Flood of 7 Jun 2017, reminds us that the... (click photo title to read more)
- Betty Knifley, Mary Ann Hixt, at Union Cemetery (Photo ID: 72894)
When Betty Shirley Knifley, Bliss, KY; left, and her sisterMary Ann Shirley Hixt, Rockfield, Warren County, KY, agreed to oversee the affairs of U... (click photo title to read more)
- Scenic Adair Co., KY: The tree in Union Cemetery (Photo ID: 62081)
A lone tree dominated the skyline on September 12, 2015, amid markers ancient and new in this section of Union Cemetery seen from Milltown... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood 3 Jul 2015 - Aftermath of Raging Big Creek (Photo ID: 61118)
GRADYVILLE, KY (Fri 3 Jul 2015, 7:58pmCT) - "Looks like part of the new blacktop is gone again at the bridge over Big Creek." - Betsy Fausn... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood 3 Jul 2015 - Big Creek out of banks, again (Photo ID: 61114)
(Fri 3 Jul 2015, at 6:38pmCT) - "Water is once again well over Old Gradyville Rd. at Big Creek! Creek is at least 20ft. out of it's banks. Turn... (click photo title to read more)
- Picketts Chapel marker commemorates Gradyville Flood victim (Photo ID: 59728)
This is one of the grave markers that specifically commemorates the Gradyville Flood of Friday night, June 7, 1907. This one for little Lillian Ir... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flooding March 18, 2013: Over the road (Photo ID: 48791)
Headed North on Old Gradyville Road. Big Creek has burst its banks and flooded the bridge. - Sharon Whitehurst
... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood of January 13, 2013 - View 2 (Photo ID: 48180)
Another View of the Flooding on Old Gradyville Road at the convergence of Big Creek and Cool Springs Creek. - BETSY FAUSNAUGH... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood of January 13, 2013 (Photo ID: 48179)
Flooding on Old Gradyville Road at the convergence of Big Creek and Cool Springs Creek. Water is over the bridge and flowing through our ha... (click photo title to read more)
- Scenic Adair Co., KY: Vinca lined roadway (Photo ID: 44195)
Spring rains gave Glens Fork Creek riffles a bit more rush, and also brought out a mass of vinca blooms along the bank. The Old Glensfork R... (click photo title to read more)
- Usually peaceful Big Creek roared on Monday, February 28, 2011 (Photo ID: 39364)
"Water surging at the Bend of Big Creek beside the Old Gradyville RD, at about 11amCT, on Monday morning, February 28, 2011, was a reminder... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flooding May 2, 2010: Waters nearly to church (Photo ID: 34933)
... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flooding May 2, 2010: Bridge over Big Creek goes (Photo ID: 34932)
Betsy Fausnaugh caught this shot of the asphalt from the bridge over Big Creek in Gradyville washing away at about 12:45pm today, Sunday, May 2, 2010.... (click photo title to read more)
- Norma Jean Parnell's wonderful Adair County Quilt (Photo ID: 31566)
Norma Jean Parnell, left, created this beautiful Adair County Quilt over a period of three months. It was finished in time to show at the J... (click photo title to read more)
- Glensfork flood of May 8, 2009: like Tupman's pond (Photo ID: 30462)
WERE IT NOT FOR THE BUILDINGS and the gas pump, a motorist might think they were driving through the center of Tupman's Pond, but that is 2... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood of 2009 (Photo ID: 30421)
"This was the bridge on Old Gradyville Road at Big Creek, this a.m., after the heavy rains. Most people were turning around and avoiding it but a ... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Buggy Ride #5: The Keltner home (Photo ID: 27486)
The Gradyville Buggy Ride passed the Mary Keltner Home, a restored and modernized home which played a major role at the time of the June 7,... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Buggy Ride: #1 By Site of Dr. Nell home (Photo ID: 27483)
The Gradyville Amish Buggy Ride comes to the sign to the Gradyville Post Office, now the only active part of the old business district stil... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Wayside Exhibits dedication: A leaving scene (Photo ID: 24693)
A scene from the Saturday, August 11, 2007, dedication of the Wayside Exhibits commemorating the Gradyville Flood and Gradyville native E.A. Diddl... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Wayside Exhibits dedication: Remembering victims (Photo ID: 24682)
Adair County Judge-Executive Ann Melton shares a story she'd read in old accounts of the Gradyville Flood about the terrible tragedy of Jun... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Wayside Exhibits dedication: Dr. Hugh Smith (Photo ID: 24679)
Dr. Hugh Smith, Russell Springs, KY was busy taking pictures of the Wayside Exhibits dedication on Saturday, August 11, 2007. Dr. Smith is ... (click photo title to read more)
- Before dedication: Wayside Markers at Gradyville, KY (Photo ID: 24666)
Frances Salyers, at an Adair County scene which gets prettier and prettier. Salyers is co-proprietor with husband Daril Salyers of D & F Gr... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood: Two sources of the Flood memories (Photo ID: 24304)
J.W. KELTNER is today's living, walking repository of the oral history of the June 7, 1907, Gradyville Flood. He heard it from his family d... (click photo title to read more)
- Greatest Adair County basketball player ponders greatest coach (Photo ID: 24302)
Many consider Ralph Shearer, a 1955 Courier-Journal First Team basketball All-Stater, to be the greatest basketball player ever to wear the... (click photo title to read more)
- Tupmans Pond: It just had 100th anniversary, too (Photo ID: 24167)
One of the most famous landmarks in Adair County had a 100th Anniversary on Thursday, June 7, 2007. According to the late ... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood: remembering story of Aunt Ottilla Scott Bell (Photo ID: 24161)
Geniece Marcum remembers hearing her family members tell the story of her Great Aunt Ottilla Scott. "Aunt Ott married Clayton Bell and they... (click photo title to read more)
- Mary Keltner House was morgue after Gradyville Flood (Photo ID: 24134)
Mary Keltner has offered to allow a roadside marker, which will commemorate the Gradyville Flood on her property on the Old Gradyville Road... (click photo title to read more)
- The Gradyville Flood 100th Anniversary: The Nell plot (Photo ID: 24128)
This extraordinarily beautiful place is the Nell family plot in Union Cemetery. The monument lets one know that an important Adair County f... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood, E.A. Diddle Roadside Markers here (Photo ID: 24124)
Roadside Markers commemorating the Gradyville Flood and to mark Grady... (click photo title to read more)
- Scenic Adair County: Now the day is over in Gradyville, KY (Photo ID: 22333)
Night is drawing nigh, in the words of Sabine Baring-Gould hymn. But before repose, congregants of the Gradyville Baptist Church were gathering... (click photo title to read more)
- Pilots for a day (Photo ID: 21767)
Spencer Foster and James "Jamie" Phillips played pretend as they sat at the control panel of a Boeing 727 air liner in the Atlanta Air terminal... (click photo title to read more)
- Scenic Adair County: Memorable view, from Louie B. Nunn Parkway, Gradyville, KY (Photo ID: 21501)
The most memorable scenic view on one of America's most pleasant drives, the Louie B. Nunn Parkway, is this one the eastbound traffic gets of Gradyvil... (click photo title to read more)
- Seeking family information (Photo ID: 20573)
DEVORE FAMILY overlooking Big Creek remembering the Gradyville Flood of 1907. This photo was taken in the summer of 1943 not far from the Bapti... (click photo title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood memories (Photo ID: 20329)
JAMES HOWARD KELTNER helped us research the tragic flood that devastated the community where he was raised. Before ... (click photo title to read more)
| | Most recent STORIES matching your search for 'Gradyville Flood'...- Adair County's Deluge, 116 Years Ago: The Gradyville Flood (Story ID: 127640)
From Mike Watson
In a dry 2023, on the anniversary of the largest water-associated disaster in local history, we awaken to rain..... (click title to read more)
- Genealogy and History Research Center: Collections Part 1 (Story ID: 122788)
... (click title to read more)
- Adair County's Deluge, 115 years ago today, June 7, 2022 (Story ID: 122762)
For more on the Gradyville Flood of 1907, see the list of articles that first appeared back when in 1997, when Columbia Magazine was still prin... (click title to read more)
- Quilt made by Venie Moss at AC Genealogy and History Center (Story ID: 122191)
Phillip Coffey worked with Genealogist Mike Watson to bring the quilt and family records together at the Adair County Genealogy and History Center. Hi... (click title to read more)
- 113 Years Ago Today: The Gradyville Flood (Story ID: 111045)
An Event That Shall Never Be Forgotten in Adair County. 21 Lives Lost in Mere Minutes
By Mike Watson
This is th... (click title to read more)
- Remembering the Gradyville Flood (Story ID: 111044)
Today marks the 113th anniversary of the June 7, 1907 Gradyville Flood, a tragedy that claimed the lives of 21 Adair Countians in a matter of minutes.... (click title to read more)
- 110 Years Ago Today- The Gradyville Flood (7 Jun 2017) (Story ID: 90968)
21 Lives Lost in Mere Minutes: An Event That Shall Never Be Forgotten in Adair County, story went viral, for it's day. Included below are acounts ... (click title to read more)
- MIKE WATSON: Flooding unforgiving threat (Story ID: 74572)
Click on headline for complete article with photo(s)
By Mike Watson
(1:21pmCT, 14 Apr 2017) -Looking at the high-... (click title to read more)
- The Gradyville Flood: Little girl swept away on rooftop float (Story ID: 50416)
Comments re article 50017 CM Archives on the Gradyville FloodKathy Phelps Ga... (click title to read more)
- Senior Korianne Cox at LWC had family in Gradyville Flood (Story ID: 50024)
Comments re article 50017 CM Archives on the Gradyville FloodKathy Cox w... (click title to read more)
- April Sheppard suggests resources for Gradyville Flood research (Story ID: 50022)
Comments re article 50017 ColumbiaMagazine.com files: Archives on the Gradyville Flood... (click title to read more)
- CM Archives on the Gradyville Flood (Story ID: 50017)
Matthew Hicks writes: Hello, I am a student at Lindsey Wilson College and a member of the RaiderView student newspaper and I am wri... (click title to read more)
- JIM: News from 100 years ago June 1911: James Garnett wins (Story ID: 45179)
A century ago there were glory days for Adair County in state politics, with Mr. James Garnett winning the Democratic nomination for Attorney Gener... (click title to read more)
- Special News, Ads, for FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2011 (Story ID: 44321)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Somerset, KYA half scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is now at ... (click title to read more)
- Special Ads, News, for FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2011 (Story ID: 44174)
Clicks to favorite Sunday with CM for May 1, 2011, columnist Plus selected favorite stories and m... (click title to read more)
- Special News, Ads, for WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2011 (Story ID: 44128)
Clicks to favorite Sunday with CM for May 1, 2011, columnist Plus selected favorite stories and m... (click title to read more)
- CM Complaint Dept: Charles Marshburn worried about his bridge (Story ID: 42752)
Comments re article 42746. Rain swollen Big Creek a reminder of grim Gradyville Flood... (click title to read more)
- Rain swollen Big Creek a reminder of grim Gradyville Flood (Story ID: 42746)
Remembers sitting in Columbia Best Western, elated at having found their little farm for sale, and typing in "Gradyville, KY," on ColumbiaMagazine.... (click title to read more)
- Gradyville Flooding May 2, 2010
Bridge out Old Gradyville RD /P. Coomer RD (Story ID: 36685)
Betsy Fausnaugh just reported the bridge in front of her home has washed out. She said that about 14' of asphalt was heaved up by the water, taking ou... (click title to read more)
- Zipline adventure at Clay City, KY, underway (Story ID: 34279)
Suggestions on where Ziplines need to be installed in our area are welcome: Lindsey Wilson College to the Square? Mt. Matney to the Gradyville ... (click title to read more)
- Heavy rains create Gradyville Flood 2009; county road problems (Story ID: 29356)
By Ed WaggenerHeavy overnight rains produced a few problems in Adair County. On Old Gradyville Road, Big Creek was over a bridge, Betsy... (click title to read more)
- Feedback: Reader has idea on location of old G.H. Nell home (Story ID: 22199)
To ColumbiaMagazine.comMy husband thinks it is the old Dr. Nell homplace that Slaught (sp??) Coomer owned and where he lived when he wa... (click title to read more)
- Information wanted on photo of George Henry Nell home (Story ID: 22189)
Old picture believed to have once been a keepsake of Ottillia Elizabeth Scott Bell. It brings back memories of the writer's great aunt, and memorie... (click title to read more)
- Obituary: J.W. Keltner, 74, veteran of Korean Conflict (Story ID: 21432)
COLUMBIAMAGAZINE.COM OBITUARIESMr. Keltner was a member of a prom... (click title to read more)
- Great day for Wayside Exhibits dedication (Story ID: 18719)
A dozen or so photographs accompany this articleBy Ed WaggenerIt was a great day for for the dedication of the Wayside E... (click title to read more)
- Wayside Exhibits dedication rescheduled for August 11, 2007 (Story ID: 18481)
The dedication of the wayside Exhibits commemoration of the Gradyville Flood of June 7, 1907 and America's most colorful basketball mentor, Coach Ed D... (click title to read more)
- Big Week of Events in Adair starts with ribbon cutting today (Story ID: 18474)
Will the party asking about placing a FREE KITTENS ad please call (270) 250-2730. We are unable to get email to you.... (click title to read more)
- Big Week of Events culminates with Gradyville dedications (Story ID: 18458)
This week: Ribbon cuttings at Damon's CTA, at Tumble Towne USA, at Farm Bureau North, and wonderful get-together in Gradyville, KY to commemorate T... (click title to read more)
- Chamber Insights July 2007: Complete latest issue & added links (Story ID: 18399)
Welcome to CHAMBER INSIGHTS, the monthly newsletter of the Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce.In this issue:... (click title to read more)
- Dedication,Wayside Exhibits, Gradyville, KY, Sat., Aug. 4, 2007 (Story ID: 18350)
A dedication of the Wayside Exhibits commemorating the Gradyville Flood of June 7, 2007, and America's most colorful basketball mentor, Coach EdDiddle... (click title to read more)
- ACRD installing historical markers today (Story ID: 17967)
The Adair County Road Department will taking a GMC dumptruck back to Bowling Green for repairs and to pick up a backhoe.One employee is taking... (click title to read more)
- Gradyville roadside markers installation Thursday at 8:30am CT (Story ID: 17956)
Roadside markers will be installed at Gradyville in the morning, Thursday, June 28, 2007, at 8:30am. The signs will be located by the Gradyville votin... (click title to read more)
- Gradyville roadside markers will be placed June 28, 2007 (Story ID: 17889)
The Adair County Road Department will be installing two roadside markers in Gradyville on Thursday, June 28, 2007.One of the roadside markers ... (click title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood: Ottillia Scott Bell Credited With Saving Lives (Story ID: 17736)
This article first appeared in issue 14, and was written by Geniece Leftwich Marcum. By Geniece Leftwich Marcumas told to her... (click title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood 100th Anniversary: Mary Keltner house (Story ID: 17694)
The following story first first appeared in issue 14, of Columbia Magazine's print publication, and was first posted on Columbia Magazine.com on Ju... (click title to read more)
- ACRD in Districts 1, 2, 5, & 7 today (Story ID: 17688)
June 7, 2007 - Anniversary of Gradyville Flood - June 7, 1907Road Department asks your help to stop sign v... (click title to read more)
- June 7, 2007: 100th Anniversary of Gradyville Flood (Story ID: 17687)
Adair County News Flood Report As It Appeared June 12, 1907These excerpts are from an article which appeared in the 1907 Adai... (click title to read more)
- Letter: Granddaughter of Dr. L.C. Nell writes (Story ID: 16094)
Comments re: Photo of L.C.Nell homeThis looks like the Ed Diddle House. After the Gradyville Flood, I understand that my grandparents (... (click title to read more)
- LETTER: Ron Devore sends note (Story ID: 13536)
Writer follows up on Gradyville Flood, cousins in Adair County story... (click title to read more)
- A trip home includes visit to Adair County cousins (Story ID: 13518)
ColumbiaMagazine.com reader Ron DeVore has traced his family into Adair County, back to the Gradyville Flood of 1907, and his daughter Michele brought... (click title to read more)
- Gradyville area Denny family connections sought (Story ID: 11179)
Ron DeVore of Edmonton, KY, is looking to learn more about his family connections in Gradyville, especially around the time of the Gradyville Flood of... (click title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood anniversary (Story ID: 10696)
Personal accounts of the tragic flood of 1907 describe a normal, hot June day in the little town of Gradyville where ordinary folks just like us did t... (click title to read more)
- Gradyville Flood (Story ID: 10120)
This article first appeared in issue 14, and was written by Columbia Spectator. ... (click title to read more)
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