Old Photos Eddyville Kuttawa Kentucky. These are the last of the photos I have that were scanned. I do have some old photos I have yet to scan. I’ll get around to them sometime in 2014. Enjoy. And Happy New Year!
To my fellow Lyon County natives: I hope you enjoy these old photos. Though they do tug at the heart. Please let me know if I have mislabeled any of them.
© Wade Kingston
Hello Wade, I loved looking at these and so enjoyed the article. I have a photo that I’d like to share with you. It was taken at Kuttawa Springs.
Thanks, Bonnie. I sent you an email.
Thank you, Wade Kingston, for publishing these pictures. I sometimes walk these streets in my dreams, and though I recognize many of the places, it is still confusing to look at. When I was a child, I thought everything was much larger than it was. I remember Hugh Wake and Co., where we bought my coats, and in the Spring, Mom and I selected new fabric for my school dresses. Kuttawa Springs looks much the same. I remember good times there, with preaching in the pavilion, the little booths selling popcorn and ice cream and then we had “dinner on the ground.” Good memories. I graduated from Lyon Co. High School in 1950. All of my teachers are gone now, but we did have some good teachers there. I could go on and on, but will just say, Thank you again. Please publish any more you may have.
I was a child but I remember much of old Kuttawa, and of course the springs, where we had picnics and bought barbecue. The photos are almost too painful to look at sometimes. Thanks for your comment.
Wade, Do you have any photos of my family who ran the springs in the 50′
Mostly any of the bbq restaurant.
I’m afraid not, Bobby. I have posted everything I had and it wasn’t much. We lost a lot of old photos a few years ago before they could be digitized.
I lived in Old Eddyville for 15yrs.1985 on. Alway wondered what the rest of the town was like. Thanks so much for sharing.
We lived in Old Kuttawa but i was very young. I believe that Trice Hughes had a place that was near where the swimming area is now? My Dad worked for Trice there and in Princeton. I do remember Kuttawa springs and i seem to remember finding arrowheads near where we lived?
Thanks for the photos. My ancestors bought a store in Eddyville and moved it to Princeton on Hwy. 70. I was trying to find a picture but it was not here. It was down ay the bottom of the hill( I was told).Do you have any more pictures that you could share?
I think I have posted all the photos I’ve ever had or come across. There are several on the Facebook page “Lyon County Love.”
Louard Gray, send me an email at crgreco@gmail.com. I have a question about the Old Eddyville store you moved to Princeton. Thanks!
As a new comer to Old Eddyville, I’ve lived here just shy of 19 years, I love looking at these old pictures. I just barely remember Old Eddyville before it was flooded. I remember my mother bringing us kids here JUST before they started releasing the flood waters. It’s almost impossible to comprehend the changes. My heart does break for all the people that lost everything for these dams.
Wade, My parents ran the bbq restaurant and the hotel sometime in the 1950s. My two older brothers also lived in the hotel with my parents at the time do you have any information on that.
Bobby, I was too young to know anyone during the 1950’s. I asked my parents and they don’t recall either. Sorry.
My wife’s family was born and raised in old eddyville in the holler right down from p ridge shopped in the store top p ridge the Bruce’s and Forsythes
Just wanted to give a shout out and say thank you for this site and sharing.
You are welcome.
I have enjoyed the pictures though I have only been old Kuttawa in 1947 and in the middle 1960’s when my Great-aunt Opal McCollum was planning to shoot the federal people rather than tear down Papa’s house (William McCollum). I remember as a boy of 1947 staying there and on Saturday morning treking up the Mountain for a meal cooker by my grandmother Mabel Gregory.
We also went to the Springs where there was a place that served mutton. Behind the McCollum House, I was taken past an primitive baseball field through a dirt path to a tiny placed called “N—– Town”. My grandmother bought me a soft drink from the store and we returned.
would like to know more about the early history of Kuttawa, my mother was born there in 1916 (Margaret Gregory, married my father in East St. Louis, became Margaret Murian)
There are local historians in Lyon County who know quite a bit of its history, though I am not one of them. There is precious little in Wikipedia about the town.
Thanks much for these great pics.. My grandfather was Thomas Boyd who owned and operated Boyds grocery store in eddyville for many years before the town was flooded from Barkley . remember going to a b s barber shop with my dad James r Boyd and the movie theater which burned down around 1956 . my mother was Agnes Boyd who was the daughter of basil Talley who was a security guard at the ky. State prison for many years . she was also an accomplished pianist in the area . such great memories , thank you so very much .
I’m glad it brought you joy.
Wade,
I am doing some research on the Kingston line, some of them were from your town, they are descendants from Simeon Kingston born @1810, they moved to Equality & Shawneetown IL. My husband is a Kingston, I’m looking to find out where the Kingston’s from Simeon’s line came from, do you have any information? From what I have the line goes, Simeon, Francis Marion (I may be missing a generation here), William Clevland (Willie), Arthur Donald, Aaron Sr, Aaron Jr.
Any info would be great.
Thank you,
Julie
Julie, I will send you something via the email address you gave me.
Hi Wade,
I have a picture I’d like to send you. My great-grandfather, NW Utley, made his home in Eddyville. This photo is of several houses above Big Spring Bluff. Also, there is a towner that belonged to St. Stephen’s Church. Thanks!
Used to go to Kuttawa Springs and have picnic lunch and then go on to Kentucky Lake to swim. We lived in Sturgis, KY.
When was all this flooded. I was little.
My paternal grandfather, Daniel Travis Browning, was born in Eddyville in 1902. His farming family had been there for several generations. He married my grandmother, Velma Louise Summers, in East St. Louis in 1930. They spent most of their adult lives in Louisiana and Texas.
Just came upon your website, and photos, of old Kuttawa and old Eddyville. I currently live in Michigan, but visited Kuttawa with my father who was born in old Kuttawa every summer since 1951 until the late 1990s. Mt father was Alvin Yates and his father’s (Clarence Yates) tobacco farm was taken over and flooded by the TVA when dams were built. The family then took the money given to them by the government and built our family bbq restaurant (taken over later by my second cousin, Leonard Knoth … which is still in operation). Anyhow. I truly appreciated finding your website and your photos … and am praying for all those on Kentucky, especially western Kentucky, after that horrifying and devastating tornado! God bless you and all our families still living in Kentucky!! 💙
Thank you, Janice, for your post and your prayers. I didn’t lose any family members but some of them did lose their property. It was and is a harrowing time for us here.