Laurel County Book

With Laurel County, author Carl Keith Greene has created a delightful new volume of vintage images, straight from the "crossroads of Kentucky." With over 200 rare photographs, this follow-up to the acclaimed book, London, celebrates the spirit of the county's people and honors their experience from the 1890s to the 1970s.

This new book features a wide assortment of photographs from all areas of Laurel County, including vintage views of town founders, families, mill workers, and business people like Col. Harland Sanders, who first fried his famous chicken at a restaurant in Laurel Couny. Traveling from areas within the Daniel Boone National Forest to Victory and Pittsburg, from Lily to Lida, and over to London, we learn about what life was like in earlier days. We see turn-of-the-century businesses and school classes, church and social activities, and county landmarks, and we rediscover the area's Swiss heritage and uncover the beginnings of Sue Bennett College.