Last Sunday, January 3rd, we did get out in the snow and decided to gather video and images from the western part of the county including Knob Creek Road, Mill Creek, Jumbo, Boswell, and Piney Creek!
Enjoy!
Video Below!
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Snow Day: January 3rd, 2009
Our readers have waited long enough! You KNEW we'd not have missed the opportunity to get images of Izard County on Ice...and you were CORRECTOMUNDO!
Last Sunday, January 3rd, we did get out in the snow and decided to gather video and images from the western part of the county including Knob Creek Road, Mill Creek, Jumbo, Boswell, and Piney Creek!
Enjoy!
Video Below!
Last Sunday, January 3rd, we did get out in the snow and decided to gather video and images from the western part of the county including Knob Creek Road, Mill Creek, Jumbo, Boswell, and Piney Creek!
Enjoy!
Video Below!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Video: Piney Fork Traverse!
Below is a video from a ride Rick and I took this past Sunday through the eastern part of the county Featured in the video below is the ruins of the old McElmurry place.
Enjoy!
To watch more of our videos, visit our Hunkahillbilly YouTube Page!
UPDATE!
Reader Eddie Chet sent us photos of the Andrew Jackson McElmurry (1816-1853) Home which we believe to be the "Unknown Homeplace" visited on the video above. Following are photos of the home in use and after it had been boarded up.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Wideman
Jim and I got out this weekend and explored around the Wideman area. We had already visited the Hammett House and the Wideman School but have never taken time to stop and get photos of the old Post-Office and feed-mill.
Wideman was once a thriving little town having at one time hosted a band concert featuring musicians from the Batesville Oddfellows' orphanage which drew attendants from all over the surrounding county.
Here is an excerpt from "Wideman Then and Now", an article featured in the October 1975 issue of the Izard County Historian (Volume 6 Number4).
Miss Frankie Thompson writes:
Wideman is a picturesque little village being situated amid beautiful wooded hills bounded on the north, west and south by free-flowing streams. These streams with their fertile valley afforded an ideal location for farming which years earlier was carried on quite extensively. Hence the need for blacksmith shops, cotton gins and grist mills.
Various gristmillers plied their trade there, the last of whom was Lewis McVey. Mr. McVey closed his doors in the mid or late 1940’s, thus ending that industry in Wideman.
There is now only one store in Wideman. It is owned and operated by the Hayden Kankeys. The Post Office is located in the store. Miss Mildred Kankey, sister of Hayden Kankey, is the Postmistress.
Note-The white post-office (Kankey Store) is no longer in use...a new modular building stands across the road. Al-Ozarka
Only a few decades ago there were three general stores in Wideman and a drug store owned and operated by Dr. Steve Jones, a well known practicing physician in the area for many years. Some of the operating merchants of the time can be remembered as: Bill Craig, Jim Shaver, Sam Harris, Bob Wood, Jim Dockins, Homer Jones, Dolph Wyatt, Jim Kankey, Ab Hammett, Jim Blankenship, Richard Reynolds, Joe Acklin, Joe Garner, Marvin Webb, and perhaps others.
About the year 1921 the Craig store, in which the Post Office was housed, Mr. Craig being Postmaster at the time, burned destroying all the postal books and records. The Postoffice was shortly rebuilt on the original site and continued in operation.
Some few years later a nearby store operated by Jim Shaver and Sam Harris burned to the ground. This, also, was a total loss and was never rebuilt.
At one time in its history Wideman had two blacksmith shops at the same time, each doing a thriving business. Among the operators were Lawson Stroud, Andrew Montgomery, Henry Gifford and Henry Martin.
On the opposite side of the creek from the business part of town, and some fifty yards above the confluence of Garner and Indian creeks, stood the old cotton gin which served the cotton farmers of the area long and well. The first gin was a treadmill affair powered by oxen and was owned and operated by Sanford Hames and son-in-law, Jim Kankey.
The old gin later evoluted to steam power and a number of gin masters exercised their skills there, among them was Ab Hammett and nephew, John Hammett, who will be remembered as former County Judge of Izard County, 1935-1939. John Hammett had earlier built and now lived in the big two-story house across the way from the cotton gin. An amusing story is told that one day during the busy ginning season, the Hammetts, John and Ab, rushed over to John’s house to eat dinner. John asked his wife, Allie, if dinner was ready. She, with her witty sarcasm, replied, “I don’t know. I put it on to cook, but you left no stovewood cut and I doubt if it is ready.” Mrs. Hammett was the former Allie Bray, a daughter of the George Bray of this story.
Wideman was once a thriving little town having at one time hosted a band concert featuring musicians from the Batesville Oddfellows' orphanage which drew attendants from all over the surrounding county.
Here is an excerpt from "Wideman Then and Now", an article featured in the October 1975 issue of the Izard County Historian (Volume 6 Number4).
Miss Frankie Thompson writes:
Wideman is a picturesque little village being situated amid beautiful wooded hills bounded on the north, west and south by free-flowing streams. These streams with their fertile valley afforded an ideal location for farming which years earlier was carried on quite extensively. Hence the need for blacksmith shops, cotton gins and grist mills.
Various gristmillers plied their trade there, the last of whom was Lewis McVey. Mr. McVey closed his doors in the mid or late 1940’s, thus ending that industry in Wideman.
There is now only one store in Wideman. It is owned and operated by the Hayden Kankeys. The Post Office is located in the store. Miss Mildred Kankey, sister of Hayden Kankey, is the Postmistress.
Note-The white post-office (Kankey Store) is no longer in use...a new modular building stands across the road. Al-Ozarka
Only a few decades ago there were three general stores in Wideman and a drug store owned and operated by Dr. Steve Jones, a well known practicing physician in the area for many years. Some of the operating merchants of the time can be remembered as: Bill Craig, Jim Shaver, Sam Harris, Bob Wood, Jim Dockins, Homer Jones, Dolph Wyatt, Jim Kankey, Ab Hammett, Jim Blankenship, Richard Reynolds, Joe Acklin, Joe Garner, Marvin Webb, and perhaps others.
About the year 1921 the Craig store, in which the Post Office was housed, Mr. Craig being Postmaster at the time, burned destroying all the postal books and records. The Postoffice was shortly rebuilt on the original site and continued in operation.
Some few years later a nearby store operated by Jim Shaver and Sam Harris burned to the ground. This, also, was a total loss and was never rebuilt.
At one time in its history Wideman had two blacksmith shops at the same time, each doing a thriving business. Among the operators were Lawson Stroud, Andrew Montgomery, Henry Gifford and Henry Martin.
On the opposite side of the creek from the business part of town, and some fifty yards above the confluence of Garner and Indian creeks, stood the old cotton gin which served the cotton farmers of the area long and well. The first gin was a treadmill affair powered by oxen and was owned and operated by Sanford Hames and son-in-law, Jim Kankey.
The old gin later evoluted to steam power and a number of gin masters exercised their skills there, among them was Ab Hammett and nephew, John Hammett, who will be remembered as former County Judge of Izard County, 1935-1939. John Hammett had earlier built and now lived in the big two-story house across the way from the cotton gin. An amusing story is told that one day during the busy ginning season, the Hammetts, John and Ab, rushed over to John’s house to eat dinner. John asked his wife, Allie, if dinner was ready. She, with her witty sarcasm, replied, “I don’t know. I put it on to cook, but you left no stovewood cut and I doubt if it is ready.” Mrs. Hammett was the former Allie Bray, a daughter of the George Bray of this story.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Twin Creek, Greasy Bottom
Last Saturday morning, Jim and I got out and ended up at Twin Creek, greasy Bottom, and the Clay Cave. Pictured are the Lower Twin Creek Schoolhouse, some ruins we found along Greasy Bottom, and a shot of Jim while making a GeoCache exchange near the Clay Cave.
Video Below!
Video Below!
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Pleasant Grove Schoolhouse
The Pleasant Grove School was located near where the Pleasant Grove Church still stands along CR 31. It was consolidated with Oxford during the 1940s. The school-building was dismantled, moved, and rebuilt as a store-building near Forty-Four along Highway 56.
The photo through the window on the left is taken from inside Pleasant Grove Church. We'll be bringing you both the Pleasant Grove Church and the cemetery later next week.
For a teaser, however, watch the Video Below!
The photo through the window on the left is taken from inside Pleasant Grove Church. We'll be bringing you both the Pleasant Grove Church and the cemetery later next week.
For a teaser, however, watch the Video Below!
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Shady Grove/Day Schoolhouse
The Shady Grove School was in the Day Community in the extreme northeastern corner of Izard County. Sessions began around 1880 in a log building which was replaced by another log building a little later. Eventually, a one-room framed structure was built and can be seen below. A later addition was obviously added.
We were told an interesting story about this building. It once stood nearly a half-mile away across a hollow but was moved to where it is currently located. Men from the community jacked-up the building, placed round logs beneath it, then rolled it down one hill, across the drywash, and up the other side of the hollow to where it now feebly stands...neglected, sadly.
We were told an interesting story about this building. It once stood nearly a half-mile away across a hollow but was moved to where it is currently located. Men from the community jacked-up the building, placed round logs beneath it, then rolled it down one hill, across the drywash, and up the other side of the hollow to where it now feebly stands...neglected, sadly.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The Old Moser Schoolhouse (Wiseman)
The Moser Schoolhouse was built in 1917 to replace the old log structure that stood a quarter of a mile or so away. It is built of a simulated cut stone likely made at the brick factory in Calico Rock (several surviving buildings using this material still exist including The Calico Rock Church of Christ), an unusual material to find in a schoolhouse in Izard County. The old building stands along the Wiseman Road between Wiseman and Horseshoe Bend. The barn that once served the students and teacher still stands, as well!
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Old Franklin Jail ?
Today, while searching for a couple of old schoolhouses, Jim and I were told about the Franklin Jail still standing in a field. So, naturally, we found it!
Enjoy!
Video Below!
UPDATE! A friend of the site wrote this to me today (10/7/10):
We've gotten it wrong before...and likely will in the future. But we try. Oh yes we do!
Luckily we have friends like these to set us straight.
Note - One of the schoolhouses we were looking for was one near Sweet Home between Franklin and Lacrosse. A video-clip is included at the end of this video. The Sweet Home community served as home to many African-American families...most descended from slaves that once helped bring progress to Izard County. Because of this school's close proximity to Sweet Home, we are pretty sure it was a "colored school".
Enjoy!
Video Below!
UPDATE! A friend of the site wrote this to me today (10/7/10):
Denny,Another friend of the site had once asked us about the building featured in this post and told us that she did not ever remember a jail being at this location. This latest information certainly seems to confirm it.
I got time this after noon to go up behind the Franklin Baptist Church to look at the block structure that was referred to as the "Old Franklin Jail" in the video on the EIC website.
I asked around and according to JD Roberts who grew up just below there, that used to be used as an old root cellar to store the canned goods etc by the people who lived in the house located beside the block structure.
JD said the house that once stood on the foundation beside the block bldg. belonged to Mary and Dolmus ( spelled as it sounded), he could not remember their last name.
Later, Mary Williams built a house behind there and it to burned at a later time.
We've gotten it wrong before...and likely will in the future. But we try. Oh yes we do!
Luckily we have friends like these to set us straight.
Note - One of the schoolhouses we were looking for was one near Sweet Home between Franklin and Lacrosse. A video-clip is included at the end of this video. The Sweet Home community served as home to many African-American families...most descended from slaves that once helped bring progress to Izard County. Because of this school's close proximity to Sweet Home, we are pretty sure it was a "colored school".
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