Log cabins; Dwellings; Mountains; Fences; Men; Women; Children
Dan Burns' dog-trot log cabin on the Big Dan Branch of Little Bullskin Creek. The family stands in the breezeway and a picket fence runs in front of the cabin. Dan Burns was one of Oneida Baptist Institute's first Board of Trustees.
Built in 1880, this Clay County courthouse was the scene of numerous feud battles. The sign on the tree reads "vote for Carlo Hounchell." The courthouse burned on January 20, 1936. Visitors to Oneida Baptist Institute passed through...
A boarding home in the town square at Manchester owned by Robert G. Potter and Nancy Catherine "Kate" Gilbert Potter. Robert Potter died in 1896. Visitors to Oneida Baptist Institute passed through Manchester on their way from the London...
A telephone pole and a martin box sit next to a fence along a mountain road on a misty, rainy day. A small cabin or barn is on the right. Oneida had telephone service by 1902.
Two oxen-drawn wagons meet on the road outside the blacksmith shop on the way from Oneida to London. See ULPA 1982.01.053.p for another view of this blacksmith shop.
Horse-drawn carriages loaded with passengers sit outside the blacksmith shop near London, Kentucky. These carriages, which transported visitors from London to Oneida, appear to be waiting for one of the horses from the front carriage to have a shoe...
A shy young boy, Marvin Norton Burns, son of James and Martha Burns. Marvin was born August 13, 1910, and named after Dr. J. B. Marvin of Louisville, a generous benefactor of Oneida Baptist Institute. Young Marvin died at the age of eighteen months.
Log cabin located near the head of Little Bullskin Creek close to Oneida. Owned by Alford "Lapper" Burns, this area was considered the ancestral home of the Burns clan. James Anderson Burns' father, Hugh Burns (1823-1879), left here...
House at First and Orchard Streets in Oneida, Kentucky. Mrs. Hogg sold this house to J. B. Hignite in 1903. Hignite sold it to James Anderson Burns in 1910, who in turn sold it to Robert Carnahan in 1914. Carnahan sold it to Dr. Preston Jennings...
Andy "Br'er Rabbit" Hacker, his second wife "Sis Rabbit" and son Bob. Sis had two brothers who were preachers, Andy and Tom Murrell. Bob Hacker graduated from Oneida in 1925.
