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Riprapping project, looking west toward Baker's Store 2012-02-21 - Elkhorn Road, Knifley, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. The Kentucky Highway Department riprapping project to stop this small stream from undercutting Elkhorn Road, the main East-West throughfare in Knifley, KY, looking west gives a perspective of the scope of the project in relationship to Baker's Store, just beyond. Long tenures of store owners is a hallmark of the Knifley tradition. Owners Darrell and Gala Baker have kept the doors open to this store for 30 years, this year, one of the longest ownerships of any business in Adair County. The business ownership goes back to Mr. Burton, from whom the Baker's purchased it, to the late Marshall Chelf, back to Louise Spires and then back to her mother, Hallie Knifley, who took over the business from her father, L.R. Chelf, who started the store in another location in first decade of the 1900s. -ED WAGGENER Permalink | Comments?

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