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Early Bank of Shepherdsville
Summary of the event in your own words (don’t forget the date!): William Jewell purchased lot 28 of the new plan of Shepherdsville on 2 Aug 1814 (Deed Book C, page 176), and held it until 22 Sep 1818, when he and his wife Arethusa sold it, and the brick house standing on it to the president and directors of the Bank of Shepherdsville (Deed Book D, page 2). -
The great flood
The great flood of 1909 has come and gone, leaving behind a tale of woe and destruction. After about 36 hours of the hardest and most continued rain, commencing Monday night and lasting until Wednesday morning, old Salt River began rising Wednesday morning and what she did from that time till Thursday will long be remembered by the people of this town and county. -
Shepherdsville Train wreck 1917
On December 20, 1917 the local "Accommodation" train pulled into Shepherdsville just after sunset. While local patrons disembarked and additional passengers boarded the local train, the Cincinnati to New Orleans "Flyer" express train bore down on Shepherdsville. Moments later a collision left death and destruction in its wake. This is the story of that terrible time. -
Old Shepherdsville Train Wreck
On December 20, 1917, momentum and great weight imploded the back of the car sending fragments of wood and glass forward into the car and its passengers. As it continued forward the sides of the car began to buckle and shatter, causing the roof to drop down on the passenger's heads. -
Bullitt county flag
This flag was adopted as the official flag of Bullitt County by Bullitt Fiscal Court on September 18, 1967. The design was created in 1967 and first displayed on December 13 of that year at a ceremony at Roby Elementary School, marking the 171st anniversary of the county. White represents salt. Salt was an important factor in Bullitt County history. The first commercial salt works west of the Allegheny Mountains was erected at Bullitt’s Lick. -
The Great Shepherdsville Train Wreck
This wreck occurred in November 1991 when a garbage truck struck the railroad overpass on the south side of the bridge, dislodging some tracks. -
Old Shepherdsville High School
I guess a measure of a person being really old is when he can talk about something and needs to clarify that he isn't talking about just the old something or other, he means the one before that. The old, OLD one. NOT the old one that was replaced in 1970 with the modern Bullitt Central High School; but the old, OLD one that sat across the parking lot, near the railroad tracks, where a Park'n TARC lot is now. built in 1905, was apparently the first public high school in Bullitt County. -
Bullitt County 4th Grader
Unfortunately, Crossroads Elementary School fourth-grader Austin Hibbard wrote the essay from personal experience. Hibbard's story, Stop Child Abuse Forever, earned him a Teacher's Choice Award in primary intermediate book level division during last spring's Young Author ceremony. -
NASP Nationals
Summary of the event in your own words (don’t forget the date!): Mark Pocker, a seventh-grader at Bernheim Middle School, became the first local archer to win a major title in a National Archery in Schools Program event when he came home first in the Eastern Nationals event held last month at the Kentucky Exposition Center. -
Google Doodle Competition
Claire’s Doodle, titled “Bubbles and the Beauty of Nature,” was one of 54 pieces selected from the U.S. states and territories. The artwork is scheduled to go up for voting to decide five national. Those five finalists will be announced in late July, where one winner will have their artwork displayed on Google’s homepage for a day. The winner will also receive a $30,000 college scholarship and their school will receive a $50,000 grant towards a new computer lab or technology program