Knottsville, Kentucky - Revision history

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 the shaping of the abiding closeness of the people of Knottsville.
+==Businesses in Knottsville==
-===Knottsville Library===
+* [[J. B. Aud & Brothers]] - Merchants
-Originally the St. William parish library until growth required a new
+* [[Knottsville Free Public Library]]
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	Operated as a free public library, funds were raised for it's operation		Operated as a free public library, funds were raised for it's operation
	through association membership dues of 50 cents per year or a $10.00		through association membership dues of 50 cents per year or a $10.00
	lifetime contribution by cash, work, or book ~~donation~~. Funds were also		lifetime contribution by cash, work, or book donations. Funds were also
	raised through picnics, entertainments, and renting of the hall.		raised through picnics, entertainments, and renting of the hall.
	A major benefactor of the library was Knottsville native William T. Ellis,		A major benefactor of the library was Knottsville native William T. Ellis,

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 Nursing home continue the tradition of strong Catholic influence in
 the shaping of the abiding closeness of the people of Knottsville.
 ''Reference to an article by Glenn Hodges''
 [[Category:Towns]]

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The eastern Daviess County community of Knottsville was
on the old Indian trail from Vincennes, IN to Hartford and went
by several colorful names before it became knows as Knottsville.
The first settlement there was called Goreham and was 1 ½ miles
east of where Knottsville was eventually built. At one time it had
a post office—the only one in that section of the county, second
only to the post office in Yellow Banks. A town was staked off,
some buildings erected, and the community was named for a resident,
Thomas Goreham. A voting place was established there.

The village that became Knottsville was laid out in 1836 by
William R. Griffith and James Millay. For the first few years, it was
called the “Grocery”, “Blacksmith Shop”, and “Heart’s Delight”.
But, when Griffin was elected to the state legislature, he had the
town named Knottsville. That was to honor Leonard Knott, who
had built the first house there in 1827 and was the town blacksmith.
The name Knottsville endured.

Millay ran the first store in Knottsville. Other early settlers
included B.J. McDaniel, William Higdon, L.T. Brown, and Mrs.
Mary Drury. By the 1880’s, the village of Knottsville included two
general stores, a drug store, a shoe shop, a wagon shop, two undertaker
parlors, a flour mill, saw and grist mills, and three tobacco
factories. Many Native Americans lived in that section of Daviess
County in earlier years, and a large hill six miles east of Knottsville,
now in Hancock County, was named Indian Hill because of
the stone houses or huts that had been erected there.

Valentine Felty Husk was the first settler of the Knottsville precinct.
He came from Virginia to Yellow Banks in 1796, and a few
years later moved up the river to the mouth of Pup Creek. He stayed
there awhile, then in 1804 followed the Indian trail inland and settled
on the Knottsville-Yelvington Road. Shortly thereafter, George Raleigh,
Charles, and Benjamin Duncan came from Nelson County.
James Adams settled in a spot about four miles northwest of Knottsville.
The Smeathers and Bell families arrived soon afterward.

The first religious service in the precinct was conducted by a
preacher named Craig in the house of Benjamin Duncan in 1808.
Knottsville was the cradle of the county’s first Catholic community,
and the Knottsville precinct would draw hundreds of early
settlers to the popular religious revivals every year at the nearby
campgrounds. The first priest to visit the section was Father Elisha
Durbin, who came once a month from Union County. St. Lawrence,
the oldest Catholic Church in Daviess County, was started
in 1821 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Henning on Aull Road
east of Knottsville. A log church was built in 1831 and Father John
Wathen became the first resident pastor in 1833. In 1839, a brick
church was built. It was replaced in 1870 with the present church,
which was dedicated in 1872.

Coal mining became an important activity in the Knottsville
area late in the 19th century, and this activity continues to the present.
At first the mines were “slope” mines, burrowing into coal
seams exposed on hillsides. Improved mining techniques later led
to strip mining, which greatly reduced mining employment.
Always a strong Catholic community, Knottsville youngsters
were prone to intermarry with Catholic families from Whitesville,
according to Judge Gene Lanham, a descendent of early settlers.
The Mary Carrico parochial school and the Bishop Soeneker
Nursing home continue the tradition of strong Catholic influence in
the shaping of the abiding closeness of the people of Knottsville.

''Reference to an article by Glenn Hodges''
[[Category:Towns]]