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Gibraltar Coal Co Commisary --County Fair Grounds on Hi way 62W -- J. L. Roark Store standing after fire -- J. L Roark Store 1919 --
Roark hearse on Main Street -- Greenville High School 1928 -- Firetruck in parade 1938 -- Owen Roark, publisher Record Newspaper
Old car in sesquicentennial parade 1949 - Churches - Cumberland Presbyterian - Methodist Espicopal South - St. Josesph's Catholic


Browder Mine Explosion
in 1910 killed 34 people
and many more were injured


Armistice Day Nov 11, 1918
A huge crowd of people
gather on the Courthouse
steps to celebrate the end
of Wold War I


Dedication of War Memorial
for those who died in World
War I on May 30, 1937


Gibraltar Coal Commissary
circa 1930


Old County Fair Grounds
Greenville on Highway 62
West in 1888


Roark's only store standing
after fire circa 1910


Roark Store on North Main
Orien Roark proprietor
circa 1919


Roark hearse passes in front
of courthouse 1910


Greenville High School
was built in 1924 and razed
in 1980s. Photo 1928


House in left backgound is
that of Ephraim Brank in 1938
Strawberry Festival Parade


Publishing the Record Paper
Orien Roark, editor 1923


Sesquicentennial Parade
in Greenville in 1949

Cumberland Presbyterian
Church in Central City in 1909


Methodist Episcopal Church
South in Central City on
Broadway and Second Street
was erected in 1911


Methodist Episcopal Church
South in Central City on the
corner of First and Broad
Street circa 1916


St. Joseph's Catholic Church
was erected 1912


Central City Lions Club
circa 1952


Locomotive in Drakesboro
circa 1934


Downtown Drakesboro
1937 Flood of Green River


Filling sacks of dirt to shore
up around the opening of
Black Diamond Coal Mine
to keep water out 1937

During the 1937 flood Green River backed up all the way into the center of downtown Drakesboro. The rowboat is very
nearly over the present Highway 431. The Black Diamond Mine opening was protected by the dirt sacks and did not flood.