Old Photos Eddyville Kuttawa Kentucky

Old Photos Eddyville Kuttawa Kentucky. These are the last of the photos I have that were scanned. I do have some old photos I have yet to scan. I’ll get around to them sometime in 2014. Enjoy.  And Happy New Year!

To my fellow Lyon County natives: I hope you enjoy these old photos. Though they do tug at the heart. Please let me know if I have mislabeled any of them.

A B's Barber Shop
A B’s Barber Shop
a very early photo of Kuttawa springs
a very early photo of Kuttawa springs
Very Old Photos Eddyville Kuttawa Kentucky Barkley Dam under construction 1958
Barkley Dam under construction 1958
Very Old Photos Eddyville Kuttawa Kentucky - Barkley Dam under construction
Barkley Dam under construction
Very Old Photos Eddyville Kuttawa Kentucky - Barkley lake begins to cover Kuttawa springs
Barkley lake begins to cover Kuttawa springs
Very Old Photos Eddyville Kuttawa Kentucky - Kuttawa street
Kuttawa street
cottage near old Kuttawa springs
cottage near old Kuttawa springs
house being moved from old Kuttawa before lake is flooded
house being moved from old Kuttawa before lake is flooded
house demolished to make way for lake Old Eddyville
house demolished to make way for lake Old Eddyville
inside Lyon County Cleaners
inside Lyon County Cleaners
Kuttawa mineral springs hotel
Kuttawa mineral springs hotel
Kuttawa springs was a popular gathering spot
Kuttawa springs was a popular gathering spot
long gone
long gone
Lyon County Cleaners in Old Kuttawa
Lyon County Cleaners in Old Kuttawa

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Mary Majors when it was in the Nickell Branch area
Mary Majors when it was in the Nickell Branch area

Mary Majors
Mary Majors
McConnell's Drug Store
McConnell’s Drug Store
New Eddyville 1961 land donated by Lee S Jones
New Eddyville 1961 land donated by Lee S Jones
Old Eddyville aerial view before flood
Old Eddyville aerial view before flood
old Eddyville school comes down
old Eddyville school comes down
old Eddyville train depot
old Eddyville train depot
old Kuttawa train depot
old Kuttawa train depot
wide street in old Kuttawa
wide street in old Kuttawa
sign announces Eddyville's new location
sign announces Eddyville’s new location

 

Mother and daughter at springs
Bonnie Davenport Southerland with her mother, Shirley Davenport

 

 

© Wade Kingston

 

28 Comments

  1. Dorothy J. Arnold Dunbar

    Thank you, Wade Kingston, for publishing these pictures. I sometimes walk these streets in my dreams, and though I recognize many of the places, it is still confusing to look at. When I was a child, I thought everything was much larger than it was. I remember Hugh Wake and Co., where we bought my coats, and in the Spring, Mom and I selected new fabric for my school dresses. Kuttawa Springs looks much the same. I remember good times there, with preaching in the pavilion, the little booths selling popcorn and ice cream and then we had “dinner on the ground.” Good memories. I graduated from Lyon Co. High School in 1950. All of my teachers are gone now, but we did have some good teachers there. I could go on and on, but will just say, Thank you again. Please publish any more you may have.

  2. Rich Hill

    We lived in Old Kuttawa but i was very young. I believe that Trice Hughes had a place that was near where the swimming area is now? My Dad worked for Trice there and in Princeton. I do remember Kuttawa springs and i seem to remember finding arrowheads near where we lived?

  3. Louard Gray

    Thanks for the photos. My ancestors bought a store in Eddyville and moved it to Princeton on Hwy. 70. I was trying to find a picture but it was not here. It was down ay the bottom of the hill( I was told).Do you have any more pictures that you could share?

  4. Jeannie Dulin

    As a new comer to Old Eddyville, I’ve lived here just shy of 19 years, I love looking at these old pictures. I just barely remember Old Eddyville before it was flooded. I remember my mother bringing us kids here JUST before they started releasing the flood waters. It’s almost impossible to comprehend the changes. My heart does break for all the people that lost everything for these dams.

  5. Bobby Jones

    Wade, My parents ran the bbq restaurant and the hotel sometime in the 1950s. My two older brothers also lived in the hotel with my parents at the time do you have any information on that.

  6. I have enjoyed the pictures though I have only been old Kuttawa in 1947 and in the middle 1960’s when my Great-aunt Opal McCollum was planning to shoot the federal people rather than tear down Papa’s house (William McCollum). I remember as a boy of 1947 staying there and on Saturday morning treking up the Mountain for a meal cooker by my grandmother Mabel Gregory.

    We also went to the Springs where there was a place that served mutton. Behind the McCollum House, I was taken past an primitive baseball field through a dirt path to a tiny placed called “N—– Town”. My grandmother bought me a soft drink from the store and we returned.

    would like to know more about the early history of Kuttawa, my mother was born there in 1916 (Margaret Gregory, married my father in East St. Louis, became Margaret Murian)

    • Wade Kingston

      There are local historians in Lyon County who know quite a bit of its history, though I am not one of them. There is precious little in Wikipedia about the town.

  7. Charles j. Boyd

    Thanks much for these great pics.. My grandfather was Thomas Boyd who owned and operated Boyds grocery store in eddyville for many years before the town was flooded from Barkley . remember going to a b s barber shop with my dad James r Boyd and the movie theater which burned down around 1956 . my mother was Agnes Boyd who was the daughter of basil Talley who was a security guard at the ky. State prison for many years . she was also an accomplished pianist in the area . such great memories , thank you so very much .

  8. Julie Kingston

    Wade,
    I am doing some research on the Kingston line, some of them were from your town, they are descendants from Simeon Kingston born @1810, they moved to Equality & Shawneetown IL. My husband is a Kingston, I’m looking to find out where the Kingston’s from Simeon’s line came from, do you have any information? From what I have the line goes, Simeon, Francis Marion (I may be missing a generation here), William Clevland (Willie), Arthur Donald, Aaron Sr, Aaron Jr.
    Any info would be great.
    Thank you,
    Julie

  9. Martha Robinson

    Hi Wade,
    I have a picture I’d like to send you. My great-grandfather, NW Utley, made his home in Eddyville. This photo is of several houses above Big Spring Bluff. Also, there is a towner that belonged to St. Stephen’s Church. Thanks!

  10. MARK BROWNING

    My paternal grandfather, Daniel Travis Browning, was born in Eddyville in 1902. His farming family had been there for several generations. He married my grandmother, Velma Louise Summers, in East St. Louis in 1930. They spent most of their adult lives in Louisiana and Texas.

  11. Just came upon your website, and photos, of old Kuttawa and old Eddyville. I currently live in Michigan, but visited Kuttawa with my father who was born in old Kuttawa every summer since 1951 until the late 1990s. Mt father was Alvin Yates and his father’s (Clarence Yates) tobacco farm was taken over and flooded by the TVA when dams were built. The family then took the money given to them by the government and built our family bbq restaurant (taken over later by my second cousin, Leonard Knoth … which is still in operation). Anyhow. I truly appreciated finding your website and your photos … and am praying for all those on Kentucky, especially western Kentucky, after that horrifying and devastating tornado! God bless you and all our families still living in Kentucky!! 💙

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