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	Sutherland is a neighborhood located on rolling hills south		<div style="float:right; clear:right; margin:0 0 1em 1em;">
	of the Panther Creek bottoms. It contained fertile soil and was		{\| style="width:260px; font-size:90%; border:1px solid #aaa; border-collapse:collapse; background:#ffffff; color:#222222;"
	timbered with virgin forests, but somewhat isolated because of		\|-
	the lack of transportation. A corduroy road, with logs laid crossways		! colspan="2" style="background:#2b4162; color:#ffffff; text-align:center; font-size:115%;" \| Sutherland, Kentucky
	to combat the mud, ran south from Owensboro to a ford at		\|-
	Panther Creek on the south to connect with a road running east to		\| '''Type''' \|\| Neighborhood
	west through what is now Utica.		\|-
	A wooden bridge was completed over Panther Creek just in		\| '''County''' \|\| [[Daviess County, Kentucky\|Daviess County]]
	time to permit Union forces on September 19, 1862 to defeat a		\|-
	band of about 400 Confederate troops threatening Owensboro. The		\| '''State''' \|\| Kentucky
	Union forces were able, thanks to the new bridge, to bring their		\|-
	cannon into play on the battlefield, thus assuring their victory.		\| '''Stave factory''' \|\| Built 1875
	In 1875 Thomas S. Pettit and James A. Munday built a stave		\|-
	factory near the Sutherland site and close to the Owensboro & Russellville		\| '''Population''' \|\| 24 (1906)
	Railroad. A few years later, Pettit and Levi Marble built a		\|-
	lumber and ~~planning~~ mill nearby. As many as two million staves		\| '''Railroad''' \|\| Owensboro & Russellville
	were shipped by barge to Pittsburgh each year from the factory.		\|-
	But with the clearing of the forest and converting the land to		\| '''Location''' \|\| Rolling hills south of the Panther Creek bottoms
	agriculture, the jobs disappeared, and the population declined. By		\|}
	1906 the population was 24, but Sutherland still had a physician,		</div>
	Dr. Arthur L. Coke, who was a true ~~“country~~ doctor.” Although
	the old Sutherland elementary school was demolished, early in		'''Sutherland''' is a neighborhood in [[Daviess County, Kentucky\|Daviess County]], Kentucky, located on rolling hills south of the Panther Creek bottoms.
	the 21st century a new elementary school ~~has been~~ constructed
	there.		==The Land==
			It contained fertile soil and was timbered with virgin forests, but was somewhat isolated because of the lack of transportation. A corduroy road, with logs laid crossways to combat the mud, ran south from [[Owensboro, KY\|Owensboro]] to a ford at Panther Creek on the south, to connect with a road running east to west through what is now [[Utica, Kentucky\|Utica]].

			==Civil War==
			A wooden bridge was completed over Panther Creek just in time to permit Union forces on September 19, 1862 to defeat a band of about 400 Confederate troops threatening Owensboro. The Union forces were able, thanks to the new bridge, to bring their cannon into play on the battlefield, thus assuring their victory.

			==Stave Factory and Mill==
			In 1875 Thomas S. Pettit and James A. Munday built a stave factory near the Sutherland site and close to the Owensboro & Russellville Railroad. A few years later, Pettit and Levi Marble built a lumber and planing mill nearby. As many as two million staves were shipped by barge to Pittsburgh each year from the factory.

			==Decline and Revival==
			But with the clearing of the forest and converting the land to agriculture, the jobs disappeared, and the population declined. By 1906 the population was 24, but Sutherland still had a physician, Dr. Arthur L. Coke, who was a true "country doctor."

			Although the old Sutherland elementary school was demolished, early in the 21st century a new elementary school was constructed there.

	''Reference to article by Glenn Hodges''		''Reference to article by Glenn Hodges''

	[[Category:Towns]]		[[Category:Towns]]
			[[Category:Daviess County, Kentucky]]

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Sutherland is a neighborhood located on rolling hills south
of the Panther Creek bottoms. It contained fertile soil and was
timbered with virgin forests, but somewhat isolated because of
the lack of transportation. A corduroy road, with logs laid crossways
to combat the mud, ran south from Owensboro to a ford at
Panther Creek on the south to connect with a road running east to
west through what is now Utica.
A wooden bridge was completed over Panther Creek just in
time to permit Union forces on September 19, 1862 to defeat a
band of about 400 Confederate troops threatening Owensboro. The
Union forces were able, thanks to the new bridge, to bring their
cannon into play on the battlefield, thus assuring their victory.
In 1875 Thomas S. Pettit and James A. Munday built a stave
factory near the Sutherland site and close to the Owensboro & Russellville
Railroad. A few years later, Pettit and Levi Marble built a
lumber and planning mill nearby. As many as two million staves
were shipped by barge to Pittsburgh each year from the factory.
But with the clearing of the forest and converting the land to
agriculture, the jobs disappeared, and the population declined. By
1906 the population was 24, but Sutherland still had a physician,
Dr. Arthur L. Coke, who was a true “country doctor.” Although
the old Sutherland elementary school was demolished, early in
the 21st century a new elementary school has been constructed
there.

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