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Old Jericho, Adair Co., KY: Jericho Schoolyard, Jim Riall Store 2012-03-27 - Photo by George Rice. George Rice found this rare photograph, taken, he believes with his Argus 620 camera. The year, he believes, was 1950, the year the Taylor County RECC brought electric to Jericho. He can't identify the four boys pitching horseshoes, but the location is the south part of the Jericho School/Charity Baptist Church campus. It was all one unit then. gravel road today is Holmes Bend Road, and across the road, the white building, is Riall's Store, operated by the late Jim and Eva Riall. It served as the shopping mall for Jericho, and housed the United States Post Office at Holmes, KY, Jim Riall, Postmaster. The grazing cows are in the Hyler Bault field, the homeplace of their son, Horace Bault. George Rice hopes that someone will recognize the athletes. The road to the right was the Mt. Carmel Road, which followed roughly the path of Corbin's Bend Road, along the Jericho Cliffs. At the end of the bluff, the road forked: The left prong went to Kelleyville, and the right to Mt. Carmel School and on down to the Rufus Dulworth and Mont Corbin Farms, with season fords across Green River. George Rice says surely someone from the era will remember the names of the athletes, above. Permalink | Comments?

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