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* AKA: Powers/Powers Station

When the Louisville, St. Louis, and Texas Railroad was built in the 1880's, a depot east of Owensboro was named Powers Station in honor of Owensboro attorney,
Joshua Powers, who had organized the financing of the line. This community was first settled by a small group of freed slaves after the Civil War.
When downtown Yelvington burned in 1890, Edward Pendleton
Taylor, who had suffered severe losses in the fire, determined
to move to a new location along the railroad. He began
laying out a new town which by the end of 1890 had several
buildings completed. “Pen” Taylor built a tobacco warehouse that
would employ fifty people; and then a post office was authorized
and he became post master. By 1895 the town included three general
stores, a blacksmith shop, and a distillery on the road toward
Yelvington. By the early 1900’s the town had a branch of the
State Bank of Kentucky, two blacksmith shops and a physician.
The name “Power’s Station” was the source of confusion for
the post office. There was another post office, Power’s Store near
Whitesville, and mail was often missent due to poor handwriting
or sorting.

Taylor, who was elected county judge in 1898, the year of
the Spanish-American War, decided to rename the town in honor
of the Black Cuban guerrilla leader, General Jose Antonio de la
Coridad Maceo y Grajles.

Taylor’s father, Gibson Taylor, owned some 1,400 acres
of land and 50 slaves. At his death in 1886, Taylor senior bequeathed
land for the building of a church and school for blacks
near what would become the new town. The First Baptist Church
of Maceo begun in the homes of freed blacks, moved to the new
church upon its completion.

Maceo continued as a black settlement, but increasingly
whites moved into the area, especially as land prices increased in
the early 20th century. A white elementary school was established
and white and black students were able to ride the “local” train to
Owensboro—the blacks to Western High School and the whites
to Owensboro High School.

With the paving of U.S. 60 through Maceo in 1930-31, the
economics of the town began to shift, as employment and shopping
opportunities in Owenboro became more accessible.
By 2010, Maceo was basically a suburban residential area.

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

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