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wagonworks, and other businesses. For a long time it
was at this site nearly six miles south of Ky 80, thir-
teen miles southwest of Somerset, but sometime be-
fore it was suspended on June 1, 1983 it was moved
14 miles north of 235 to a site just south of the road to
Mendel-Gouley.
The Delmer post office occupied several sites on what
became 235 from its original location, serving a vil-
Eaton, which may have been a little under a mile east
lage called Vola, 2 ½ miles south of Nancy and 4 ½
of the later Sinking Valley post office, was established
miles north of Trimble. It was established on June 23,
on July 2, 1895 by storekeeper Perry Rash who prob-
1903 and named for the one year old son of its first
ably named it for his wife Nancy’s Eaton family. He
postmaster William Sherman Burton. When it closed
was succeeded in June 1897 by James V. Carroll, and
in 1962 it was by the Okalona Church, half a mile
the office closed in mid April 1902.
south of the Timmy Branch of Clifty, 1 1/3 miles One half to one mile east of Eaton was the inexplica-
north of Trimble’s last site and about one mile south bly named Public which William Taylor opened on
of its own first location. July 19, 1895 and which closed in 1981.
Hislope [hah:/ Eastern Pulaski County’s Vanhook
slohp], named for family gave its name to another val-
area descendants of ley post office, established on Janu-
(perhaps) James ary 5, 1898, with Samuel W.
and Mary Hislope, Vanhook, its first postmaster. It
was established on closed in mid February 1915 and was
July 30, 1924 by re-established on February 18, 1926, with Everett
Ethus Burton to Harper, postmaster, two miles from Rockcastle County
serve a settlement then known as Stableson, Ethus, and 2 ½ miles southeast of Plato. Here it closed in
and Tarter. Until it closed in 1933 it was half a mile 1963.
south of Delmer.
Two Post Offices on Rte. 1675
Post Offices in or Near the Sinking Valley
The first of the two offices on this road, between Ky
The aptly named Sinking Valley extends roughly 80 and Ky 1003, was Acorn [a/kuhrn, ak/ruhn, and
south from Rockcastle County for some seven or eight now a/kawrn]. It was established somewhere south
miles almost to Ky 80 in the eastern part of Pulaski of the Burdine valley (through which old 80 and now
County. Its name was given to the post office main- 1675 extends) on March 20, 1896. According to one
tained from June 20, 1930 to 1935 by John Logan of several accounts of its name, Jacob N. Mayfield
Price on Rte. 1677, 2 ½ miles east of Dahl. Accord- was struck by a falling acorn while considering pos-
ing to Collins’ 1874 history
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this valley is governed sible names for his new post office. In another, he
by a “sinking stream”, one that flows underground, was feeding acorns to his hogs when the name oc-
with several surface openings, but which flows on the curred to him. In yet a third, a stranger noting the
surface after heavy rains. Earlier Sinking Valley post large number of acorns on the ground and the unusu-
offices were Plato, Eaton, Public, and Vanhook. ally large oak trees that had produced them suggested
Plato was established on August 15, 1866 by David
the name. Mayfield’s wife Mary was the first post-
O. Gibson who is said to have named it for the Greek
master. In 1900 Mary had the office moved one mile
philosopher though it’s not known why. It was prob-
south. By 1939, with G.M. Mayfield, postmaster, it
ably first on what’s now Ky 461, three miles south-
was serving the Burdine locality (named for several
west of Level Green, at the head of a Sinking Valley
related families), 3 ½ miles southwest of Squib. The
prong between the Cash and Plato knobs, and fifteen
office was suspended on February 16, 1990.
miles northeast of Somerset. Several moves brought Three miles south of Acorn was Azof. Ruby, the first
it onto Ky 1727, 1.3 miles southeast of the latter’s name proposed by Willie F. Edwards, was replaced
junction with 461, where it closed in 1972. by the name of the shallow Ukrainian Black Sea arm
and the town of this name at the mouth of the River
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