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    Hazard, Perry County
    Hazard, Perry County
    Hazard, Perry County
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    Hazard, Perry County

    By Martha Hall Quigley

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    Hazard and Perry County have enjoyed a long and colorful history since founder Elijah Combs first settled in the area in 1795. The years have brought a multitude of changes, explored in this engaging visual history.
    Contained within these pages are vintage photographs depicting the history of an American small town that has always fancied itself a city. Images were culled from the collection at the Bobby Davis Museum, which includes selected photographs from John Kinner, Hal Cooner, L.O. Davis, and others. This work traces the area s development from an isolated mountain village to a center of Eastern Kentucky commerce and culture. Recorded in these images are the devastating floods that often threatened the community, as well as the building of the railroad that brought in everything from automobiles and telephones to Sears and Roebuck prefabricated homes. Aerial shots from the 1940s and 1950s are also included, and accompanying captions document the names and places familiar to oldtimers and intriguing to newcomers in Hazard, Perry County.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateJul 28, 2000
    ISBN9781439610732
    Hazard, Perry County
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    Martha Hall Quigley

    Martha Hall Quigley is a native of Hazard and serves as the director of the Bobby Davis Museum and Park. She is the author of several other books and articles on Perry County history, including 1911�1913: Years of Change. She brings to this new work a love for her home community and the belief that a strong identity with the past provides a vigorous foundation for the future.

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      Hazard, Perry County - Martha Hall Quigley

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      SOME OLD DAYS IN HAZARD TOWN

      In the late 1700s Elijah Combs and a slave left Virginia, on foot. They found the North Fork of the Kentucky River and followed it until they came to a small salt lick. They built an improver’s cabin and walked back to Virginia to get Elijah’s wife, Sarah. Elijah and Sarah raised their family on this location that he selected by the river. In 1821 the state established a county, named for Oliver Hazard Perry. Elijah’s original homestead became the county seat.

      Josiah H. Combs proclaimed the courageous and creative nature of the Perry County settlers in this portion of his poem, The Pioneers of Perry.

      No inn or tavern greets them in the wild,

      They eat wild game, each father, mother, child;

      No music greets their weary ears by night,

      Except the lonely screech owl in its fright.

      They braved the weather, tempest and the cry

      Of savage Indian whom they durst defy,

      And traveled ever onward in their quest

      Of land and forest, and of happiness.

      The grave of John Combs and Nancy Combs is several miles south of Hazard. They were the parents of Elijah Combs, the first settler and founder of Perry County. Elijah came to Kentucky in 1795, and his parents and seven brothers followed. Perry County is known as the Combs capitol of the world. Families followed with the names Cornett, Eversole, Hall, Campbell, Smith, Duff, Ison, Baker, and others.

      A description of Elijah Combs’ Old Log Fort was passed down by word of mouth. He finished the two-story, 40-by-60-foot log cabin on the river around 1796. Elijah’s family occupied one side of the first floor, opposite a tavern. There was an inn upstairs. The trustees of the town held court in Elijah’s tavern until they built a courthouse in 1836. Elijah operated the tavern until 1850. The Old Log Fort stood until shortly after 1900 on the empty lot up from the end of the walking bridge in this picture, c. 1913. (See another photo of the walking bridge on p. 31.)

      One of the early frame buildings on Main Street in the late 1800s was the Davis Hotel (on the left). Rev. A.S. Petrey was staying at this hotel when townspeople came and appealed to him to establish a Baptist church. Fulton French, the adversary of Joe Eversole in the French and Eversole Feud, stayed in the middle building during the Battle of Hazard in 1889. The entrance to the middle building is behind the barrels.

      On August 27, 1898, at the request of Dr. R.R. Baker and Pearl Combs, Rev. A.S. Petrey organized the First Missionary Baptist Church of Hazard. Immediately, Reverend Petrey and others began cutting timber to build the church on land secured from Polly Ann Combs and her family. The new congregation finished their church building in 1899. Tragically, it burned in

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