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The Walnut Grove post office, which
was suspended on September 27, 1992,
began on August 9, 1888 when store-
keeper-gristmill operator John G.
Riddle established a post office, half a
mile west of Bee Lick Creek and sev-
enteen miles northeast of Somerset, as
The Glades. This descriptive name
still applies to the flat swampy area be-
tween the head of Dicks River (in
Rockcastle County) and Buck Creek’s
Caney Fork, and extends into part of
Lincoln County as well. It’s character-
post office. They succeeded and the office was named
ized by numerous caves, sinkholes, and
for their achievement.
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In any case the post office
sinking streams.
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On June 15, 1889 Riddle had the
was established on March 5, 1900 with John B.
name changed to Walnut Grove for the local trees.
Edwards, postmaster, and closed in 1967.
For many years the office was just south of Bee Lick
Creek, half a mile north of 934, and half a mile from
James S. Hines offered his name for a post office he
the Rockcastle County line.
established on a steeply graded road west of Malvin
Hill (that became part of Ky 192). But from July 14,
Where 934 crosses the Watson Branch of Clifty Creek,
1920 to 1936 he operated it, near the old White Lily
3 ¼ miles wsw of Walnut Grove and 1 1/4 miles east
School, as Grade.
of Woodstock, was the Watson family’s Elgin post
office. This name, allegedly for the city in Illinois,
Other offices on 192 were Juno-Ruth and Dykes, also
was given instead the preferred Watson, then in use
described above.
in Adair County. John Adrian Watson and James A.
Post Offices on KY 461
Watson were its first postmasters. It operated between
December 31, 1901 and 1942.
Two post offices served residents on this road between
Mt. Vernon of Mark.
Three Post Offices on KY 235
The first was the aptly named Valley Oak which op-
Three offices served settlements on 235, between Ky
erated at several
80 (just east of Nancy) and a point about one mile
from the Wayne County line. The first, Trimble, was
sites for one hundred years from August 15, 1866
established on February 6, 1882 by storekeeper John
when it was established
C. Ford and named for the local descendants of Revo-
when it was first established by James L. Bobbitt. For
lutionary War veteran William Trimble.
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By the late
most of its tenure it served the Flat Lick locality, half
1890s Trimble was a fairly substantial community
a mile north of the church and just east of the Flat
with several stores, a couple of mills, C.W. Trimble’s
Lick Knob, eleven miles northeast of Somerset.
Somewhere in the vicinity of the
Sunnyside Church, one mile east of
Brush Creek, was Pumpkin Center,
named by its first postmaster George W.
Shiplet for the many locally grown
pumpkins. It operated between Febru-
ary 9, 1929 and 1948.
Post Offices on KY 934
This road extends from Ky 461 (at the
Mount Pleasant Church) west to Ky 39
(at Woodstock).
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