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for the woods through which local people ran their and 2 ½ miles north of Woodstock. It would be called
livestock. The local post office was established on Dandy. But for some reason it opened on February
September 21, 1853 by Reuben Elkins who had ac- 23, 1901 as Bandy and this remained, till the office
quired Freancy’s holdings. After a noncontinuous closed in 1942, uncorrected. According to a local tra-
existence the office closed for good in 1942. dition, it was named for a girl popular with local men
The Bee Lick post office, in the vicinity of the Lin-
who had been asked to leave by the local women.
coln-RockcastlePulaski Counties convergence, was Another Pulaski County name as yet unaccounted for
established in Lincoln County on January 29, 1861 is Bobtown. It was applied to an office established
by John Bobbitt. It was named for the local creek on April 26, 1905, with Lucinda E. Thompson, its
which had earlier been named for the many honey first postmaster, somewhere one mile south of Buck
bees along its banks. M.J. Reynolds had the office Creek and 3 ½ miles north of Dabney. In 1911 it was
moved to Pulaski County in 1887 where it closed in moved to the Crab Orchard Road (later Ky 39), and
February 1910. in 1936 was moved half a mile north on that road to a
Neither of the two alleged sites of the White Oak
point just north of Burgin Knob (perhaps back to
Gap post office have been precisely located. Though
where it had been), and here it closed in 1966.
shown on contemporary state maps as on Ky 39, it Another post office on Ky 39 was Dabney, already
may not have been, and certainly not where it’s been considered.
shown. It was established on March 1, 1867 with John
McHargue, its first postmaster
Post Offices on KY 192
. According to a suc-
cessor Charles H. McKinney’s 1885 Site Location The first of the three Pulaski post offices on Ky 192
Report it was half a mile east of Flat Lick Creek, 2 ½ (extending between the site of the old Woodmont post
miles northwest of Shopville, three miles southwest office and London) was Sears. It operated first from
of Valley Oak, 22 miles north of Grundy, and four June 13, 1894 through September 1907 by storekeep-
miles south of Dabney. By the turn of the century it ers Lawrence and Henry M. Sears and may have been
was serving a store, a corn and saw mill, a livestock named for “Black Jesse” Sears. It was reopened by
business, and other activities 2 ½ miles southeast of Charles H. Bolton on December 24, 1924, two miles
Dabney and 7 ½ miles northeast of Somerset. In 1900 east of Buck Creek and Dykes, three miles wnw of
John E. Bryan petitioned for a move 2 ½ miles south- Mount Victory, 2 ½ miles nne of Poplarville, and 13
west to a point only 4 3/4 miles northeast of the ½ miles ese of Somerset, and closed for good in 1935.
Somerset post office, but it’s not known if this move
Several accounts have been offered for the naming of
actually occurred. In any event, the office closed in
the hamlet and post office of Mount Victory just south
mid May 1905.
of the junction of 192 and 1003. It may refer to a
According to George B. Brown’s Site Location Re- victory over renegade Indians by a small patrol headed
port, a post office would be established at the junc- by Lt. Nathan McClure in May 1788. Assigned to
tion of Ky 39 and 70, three miles south of Bee Lick escort early settlers to Kentucky, this Revolutionary
War veteran was fatally wounded on a
ridge between the Rockcastle River
and Buck Creek.
31
Or it may have been
named by Ella P. Darr, wife of the Rev.
Timothy Darr, a Methodist minister,
who had arrived in the area in the
1890s. She and her colleagues consid-
ered it a religious victory that they were
able to establish a church and school
there.
32
Or it may have been named for
a successful revival once held there.
33
Finally, the tale has been told though
usually discredited, about two local
teachers who agreed to carry the mail
free for one year if they could get a
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