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  1. Place Names: How Adair Co. roads got their names
    Posted: 2026-04-27, Story ID: 138511

  2. Place Names - How Adair churches came to be
    Posted: 2026-04-13, Story ID: 138359

  3. Writers' Day: A Rite of Spring...or A Wild Onion Tale
    Posted: 2026-04-07, Story ID: 138316

  4. Place Names in Adair County: families memorialized
    Posted: 2026-04-01, Story ID: 138224

  5. Place Names - How streams got their names
    Posted: 2026-03-25, Story ID: 138153

  6. Place Names - Adair County, Kentucky
    Posted: 2026-03-18, Story ID: 138074

  7. Adair Heritage Association will meet March 10
    Posted: 2026-03-04, Story ID: 137947

  8. Downtown Walking Tour on March 21
    Posted: 2026-03-03, Story ID: 137934

  9. Snow-Go once again...
    Posted: 2026-02-01, Story ID: 137603

  10. New Year's Superstitions
    Posted: 2025-12-31, Story ID: 137214

  11. Ghost tales from old Adair County
    Posted: 2025-10-31, Story ID: 136642

  12. Upcoming programs from the Adair Co. Genealogical Society
    Posted: 2025-08-28, Story ID: 135943

  13. A few adverts from the 1963 Adair County High yearbook
    Posted: 2025-08-15, Story ID: 135799

  14. It's beginning to feel a lot like... the end of summer vacation
    Posted: 2025-08-13, Story ID: 135780

  15. Doors: Mr. Ben White, and Roley-Casey Creek Program a success
    Posted: 2025-07-16, Story ID: 135531

  16. Lanterns and Tombstones S4E3 was a success
    Posted: 2025-06-08, Story ID: 135179

  17. Eighty-one years ago: D-Day, June 6, 1944
    Posted: 2025-06-06, Story ID: 135165

  18. The Solomon and Thompson J. Baker Rifle program
    Posted: 2025-04-08, Story ID: 134566

  19. Hotel on Columbia Public Square has several owners
    Posted: 2025-01-05, Story ID: 133616

  20. Christmas Happenings Sixty-six Years Ago, 1958
    Posted: 2024-12-10, Story ID: 133373

  21. Book Fair one of most successful ever
    Posted: 2024-12-01, Story ID: 133287

  22. History: Presidential Electors, Convention Delegates
    Posted: 2024-11-05, Story ID: 133054

  23. History: Early Election Precincts in Adair County
    Posted: 2024-11-05, Story ID: 133050

  24. History Monday: 13th Kentucky Cavalry
    Posted: 2024-11-03, Story ID: 133034

  25. Shot - Stabbed - Hanged - and More a success
    Posted: 2024-10-30, Story ID: 133003

  26. One Century Ago in Adair County
    Posted: 2024-09-23, Story ID: 132659

  27. Sept 14 Saturday Session on Land Records
    Posted: 2024-09-04, Story ID: 132442

  28. Local History in Small Doses
    Posted: 2024-08-27, Story ID: 132368

  29. June 1958: When John Lair performed in Columbia
    Posted: 2024-08-09, Story ID: 132208

  30. Columbia-Adair County Fairs--A Short History
    Posted: 2024-08-03, Story ID: 132162

  31. New school buildings, 1920
    Posted: 2024-06-13, Story ID: 131753

  32. History Monday: The freeze of 1886
    Posted: 2024-04-29, Story ID: 131324

  33. Seasonal care needed - make a positive impact
    Posted: 2024-04-19, Story ID: 131235

  34. History Monday: Sheriffs of Adair Co., part 3
    Posted: 2024-02-05, Story ID: 130475

  35. History Monday: Sheriffs of Adair County, part 2
    Posted: 2024-01-22, Story ID: 130310

  36. The first measurable snow of 2024--January 15th...
    Posted: 2024-01-15, Story ID: 130194

  37. History Wednesday: Sheriff of Adair Co. 1801-2000, pt. 1
    Posted: 2024-01-10, Story ID: 130129

  38. Lanham/Lannum-Taylor Affair, 1872
    Posted: 2023-11-04, Story ID: 129428

  39. Homecoming and history at G&HRC this weekend
    Posted: 2023-10-09, Story ID: 129059

  40. Beginning Genealogy Class 2 is September 23
    Posted: 2023-09-18, Story ID: 128808

  41. Lanterns and Tombstones tours wrap up for season
    Posted: 2023-09-05, Story ID: 128661

  42. Genealogical Society Textiles Meeting a success
    Posted: 2023-08-09, Story ID: 128372

  43. Genealogy Class was a Success
    Posted: 2023-07-27, Story ID: 128227

  44. Remembering a historically low-scoring basketball game
    Posted: 2023-07-21, Story ID: 128152

  45. Expensive Memorial Day flowers in the ditch lines
    Posted: 2023-06-29, Story ID: 127912

  46. Genealogy meeting to feature Jane Lampton DAR Chapter
    Posted: 2023-06-29, Story ID: 127902

  47. Looking Back for 4 May, 2023: One hundred years ago
    Posted: 2023-05-04, Story ID: 127251

  48. A bit of Civil War History and a tragedy in 1865
    Posted: 2023-04-28, Story ID: 127174

  49. Demonbreun Cemetery clean-up and history
    Posted: 2023-04-17, Story ID: 126977

  50. L&T Tour: Rev. Thomas Lewis Hulse, 1868-1946
    Posted: 2023-04-11, Story ID: 126900

  51. Next Lanterns & Tombstones Tour is Friday
    Posted: 2023-04-04, Story ID: 126815

  52. Into Adair County, Pioneer Style
    Posted: 2023-03-26, Story ID: 126662

  53. A history of the Male and Female High School
    Posted: 2023-03-15, Story ID: 126541

  54. Chasing items with an educational theme
    Posted: 2023-01-29, Story ID: 125884

  55. A cold day, once upon a time...
    Posted: 2022-12-26, Story ID: 125423

  56. Adair County's birthday celebrated quietly by many
    Posted: 2022-12-13, Story ID: 125240

  57. Word of Pearl Harbor Bombing in Adair County...
    Posted: 2022-12-07, Story ID: 125154

  58. Names may be strange things...
    Posted: 2022-09-19, Story ID: 124037

  59. The Best of Times--The Worst of Times?
    Posted: 2022-08-15, Story ID: 123611

  60. Faces on the Courthouse Columns
    Posted: 2022-07-14, Story ID: 123230

  61. Let it Rain or Make it Rain
    Posted: 2022-07-07, Story ID: 123128

  62. Doom Awaits Those Who Ignore Plain Instructions
    Posted: 2022-05-26, Story ID: 122617

  63. Ginseng Association 1905
    Posted: 2022-05-16, Story ID: 122476

  64. Lantern Tour: Cemeteries once like public parks
    Posted: 2022-05-09, Story ID: 122372

  65. Adair Co. Genealogical Society Meeting: 1950 Federal Census
    Posted: 2022-03-28, Story ID: 121841

  66. Remarkable Sunday School
    Posted: 2022-03-21, Story ID: 121759

  67. Heritage group to meet at Genealogy and History Center
    Posted: 2022-03-14, Story ID: 121650

  68. Lived in...
    Posted: 2022-02-27, Story ID: 121425

  69. The Weather Outside is Frightful... or Soon Will Be
    Posted: 2022-02-03, Story ID: 121085

  70. Brandy Held's mini-Hereford brings back memories
    Posted: 2022-01-07, Story ID: 120613

  71. Health and Wealth and Luck should be in abundance...
    Posted: 2022-01-01, Story ID: 120495

  72. Christmas reflections from long ago
    Posted: 2021-12-28, Story ID: 120427

  73. Final week of Military Display at Adair Research Center
    Posted: 2021-11-28, Story ID: 119985

  74. October is family history month
    Posted: 2021-10-01, Story ID: 118987

  75. Burials listed in the Brawner-Smith Cemetery
    Posted: 2021-09-16, Story ID: 118711

  76. History Monday: Preserving documents for future generations
    Posted: 2021-08-02, Story ID: 117915

  77. Reecer at the Adair Co. Genealogy and History Research Center
    Posted: 2021-07-22, Story ID: 117745

  78. A Columbia Landmark and Historic Stage
    Posted: 2021-07-16, Story ID: 117659

  79. Jane Lampton Clemens born 18 June 1803
    Posted: 2021-06-18, Story ID: 117271

  80. Some Traditions Shall Not Die
    Posted: 2021-05-29, Story ID: 116974

  81. History Monday: Trees cut where the courthouse now stands
    Posted: 2021-04-12, Story ID: 116225

  82. History Monday: Murray's Filling Station
    Posted: 2021-03-22, Story ID: 115917

  83. History Monday: Corn Growing Contest, 1911
    Posted: 2021-03-15, Story ID: 115813

  84. History Monday: Mighty Girl Louise Grissom, 105 Years Ago
    Posted: 2021-03-08, Story ID: 115698

  85. History Monday: A Fearsome Ailment, Once Rampant
    Posted: 2021-03-01, Story ID: 115576

  86. History Monday: Law and Disorder, 1870s Style
    Posted: 2021-02-22, Story ID: 115460

  87. History Monday: The Columbia Spectator, 1894
    Posted: 2021-02-15, Story ID: 115321

  88. High Schools in Adair County
    Posted: 2021-02-12, Story ID: 115284

  89. History Monday: Streets Taken Over, 1932
    Posted: 2021-01-25, Story ID: 114934

  90. History Monday: Did You Know?
    Posted: 2021-01-18, Story ID: 114824

  91. History Monday: A prominent man in many ways
    Posted: 2021-01-11, Story ID: 114708

  92. History Monday: May 2021 Be Kinder to All
    Posted: 2021-01-04, Story ID: 114602

  93. Bring Your Bible to Sunday School--Even the Old One
    Posted: 2020-12-28, Story ID: 114498

  94. History Monday: A Tale of Christmas Long-Ago
    Posted: 2020-12-21, Story ID: 114398

  95. History Monday: The Old Time Stage Coach
    Posted: 2020-12-14, Story ID: 114299

  96. History Monday: December 7, 1941--U.S. Declares War on Japan
    Posted: 2020-12-07, Story ID: 114166

  97. History Monday: Male and Female High
    Posted: 2020-11-23, Story ID: 113928

  98. Turkey raising was once Big Business in Adair
    Posted: 2020-11-22, Story ID: 113912

  99. History Monday: Vaudeville Show in Columbia, 1914
    Posted: 2020-11-16, Story ID: 113802

  100. History Monday: Election 2020 Different from Past Ones
    Posted: 2020-10-26, Story ID: 113405

  101. History Monday: Preserve Now, Enjoy Later, is not a new idea
    Posted: 2020-10-19, Story ID: 113313

  102. History Monday: Why So Named??
    Posted: 2020-10-12, Story ID: 113187

  103. Poke Sallet and the Weed
    Posted: 2020-10-07, Story ID: 113094

  104. History Monday: Earls' Ridge
    Posted: 2020-10-05, Story ID: 113060

  105. Remembering Miss Winston
    Posted: 2020-09-28, Story ID: 112938

  106. Adopt a Grave to reserve and honor our history
    Posted: 2020-09-26, Story ID: 112916

  107. Famous Natives of Adair Co.: Col. Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney
    Posted: 2020-09-21, Story ID: 112840

  108. The woes of lack of matrimony in Adair County, 1904
    Posted: 2020-09-14, Story ID: 112719

  109. Six Marriages at Roley, Adair County, at Christmas Time, 1896
    Posted: 2020-09-08, Story ID: 112616

  110. History Monday: Trip down Crocus and up Sand Lick from 1915
    Posted: 2020-09-07, Story ID: 112602

  111. History: Who will remember?
    Posted: 2020-08-30, Story ID: 112470

  112. On the Death of a Building
    Posted: 2020-08-27, Story ID: 112438

  113. History Monday: Adair County Church Notes, 1897-1898-
    Posted: 2020-08-24, Story ID: 112376

  114. History Monday: The Mark Twain Festival, 1958
    Posted: 2020-08-17, Story ID: 112257

  115. History Monday: Ben Franklin Variety Store, 1961
    Posted: 2020-08-10, Story ID: 112138

  116. History Monday: Big events locally, 1976
    Posted: 2020-08-03, Story ID: 112035

  117. Snake handling here, not so much as sport...
    Posted: 2020-07-26, Story ID: 111887

  118. Varmints A-plenty, Once Upon A Time
    Posted: 2020-07-21, Story ID: 111800

  119. Mike Watson: Bears once were everywhere in Adair
    Posted: 2020-07-19, Story ID: 111764

  120. History Monday: Mad Dogs Always a Concern
    Posted: 2020-07-13, Story ID: 111659

  121. History Monday: Big News in June 1952
    Posted: 2020-07-06, Story ID: 111539

  122. History Monday: Adair County and the Whig Party, 1843
    Posted: 2020-06-29, Story ID: 111411

  123. Run-aways and Elopists
    Posted: 2020-06-28, Story ID: 111396

  124. History Monday: Man's Other Best Friend
    Posted: 2020-06-22, Story ID: 111294

  125. Remembering Mrs. Margie Burris Coffey
    Posted: 2020-06-19, Story ID: 111262


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